Oreos are a case of the OU’s assumption that we’re all morons vis-a-vis the whole dairy issue.
I know a camp mashgiach who saw that crumbled Oreos (to be used for ice cream or other desserts) in a huge wholesale bag were labeled OU-Parve. When he called up the OU and asked if this was a misprint, since Oreos sold on the shelves are OU-D, the mashgiach said that the rabbi dreied around on the phone for 45 minutes, not giving him a straight answer, until he finally told the mashgiach, “I won’t tell you it’s dairy, but I also won’t tell you it’s parve.” (Sigh)
Halevai, if only people knew the truth about Oreos, there would be another dessert option for people who live in areas where you can’t get parve desserts so easily.
If the OU were more clear about Oreos and other DE desserts, we would have more options for our shabbos meals. I would have no problem serving oreos after our fleshig shabbos dinners.
The DE was a very clever means of giving people the truth. I suppose the OU is of the shita of Jessup from A Few Good Men (“You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!”)
I suppose there’s always Stella D’Oro.