One netizen @MarioNawfal posted a video, captioning it, "The only way I am eating Oreos from now on…"
Viral Oreo cookies video draws huge reaction
In the video, Oreo was scorched for a little longer than the previous one, while the final one was burned for roughly 30 seconds.
The original video was uploaded by an account (@Space_PatriQt17) on Thursday, december 19, garnering over 36K likes and over 10.2 million views so far.
The leaked footage sparked reactions from several netizens. "Is milk stronger than fire?" a user (@EdwardJacksonD) posted on X.
"Can a house made out of Oreo cookies survive a fire?" another asked.
"Then, why don't firefighters wear Oreos?" a third user wondered.
"Oreo cookies laced with cancer-causing flame retardant chemicals that even a blow torch can't ignite?" the fourth user queried.
"After Seeing That I'm No Longer Eating Oreos," wrote the fifth one.
Grok issues clarification
Grok, meantime, said that the ingredients in Oreos—cocoa, sugar, soy lecithin, and palm or canal oil—would help them stay intact when burnt. An artificial intelligence (AI) claimed that the content and structure of an Oreo wafer are what prevent it from burning when exposed to a blowtorch.
This follows several users' allegations that Oreo's parent firm, Mondelez, was the subject of a class action lawsuit for falsely claiming that its products were "100% Sustainably Sourced."
According to the complaint, the company uses cocoa that is produced through child labor and child enslavement. West African rainforests are also said to have been destroyed as a result of Mondelez's cocoa supply chain.