Ruby chocolate, a new pink chocolate obtained without adding berries, flavors or colorants, is presented to the media at the Barry Callebaut Belgium factory in Lebbeke-Wieze on September 18, 2017.
Barry Callebaut, the world leader in cocoa, presented Ruby (pink) chocolate as the fourth category, along with dark chocolate, milk and white, in the name of a cocoa bean of the same name. This discovery kicked off the search for years of experience in the group’s workshops in France and Belgium, to understand how to exploit the properties of the ruby bean and then set up a manufacturing process. / AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
2. Pina colada
To be fair, this is but a slight variation on the coconut idea, which admittedly already exists as Oreo Thins, but really, pina colada is a much more dynamic prediction. Pina Colada Oreos would not only feature coconut flavoring, but also pineapple, maybe maraschino. Possibly even rum, who is to say, dare to dream, etc.
A Pina Colada Oreo has all the indicators of an Oreo flavor — slightly questionable logic but recognizable flavors — and that of a good Mystery Oreo candidate too — namely, a blended flavor that may be hard to immediately discern.
1. White chocolate
So simple it just might be genius. Oreos are, of course, historically just chocolate cookies with a creme filling. Cookies and creme. That’s the gist. Then Nabisco started getting really wild with creme flavors, creme colors and even mixing up cookie flavor too. But what if they went back to basics. And then what if Nabisco varied, pivoted, just ever so slightly from the original concept? What if the Mystery Oreo flavor was white chocolate?
Yes, it’s true they sometimes sell chocolate creme Oreos, to mostly forgettable ends, but white chocolate is a totally different flavor to milk chocolate. White chocolate is a flavor that could, in fact, be quite compatible, complementary, even, to the slightly bitter chocolate of the Oreo biscuit.
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Of course, more likely than not, the white is just a decoy and we’ve limited ourselves. (White is the go-to “mystery flavor” color.) Perhaps instead we’ll bite into something truthfully of a totally different color palette, like maple brown sugar. Ooh, Maple Brown Sugar Oreos sound excellent.