8 Discontinued Oreo Flavors

(via Mental Floss) First introduced in 1912 by the National Biscuit Company (later Nabisco), the original chocolate-and-cream Oreo cookie has sold in the billions.  In the new millennium, Oreo began issuing dozens of limited-edition flavors annually, from watermelon to limeade to root beer float.  Those novelty flavors come and go from shelves and seem ready-made for social media. Here, we’ve collected some of the earlier Oreo experiments that Nabisco considered to be major shake-ups in the Oreo legacy.