O-H-I-O loves its O-R-E-Os
Alison Dietz | The Chronicle-Telegram
She heard about the contest in a sweepstakes letter.The rules were specific: You had to have a team of two and both partners had to twist a Double Stuf Oreo cookie apart, lick the cream off using only a tongue (no teeth or lips), dip the chocolate parts in a glass of milk, chew, and then drink the milk.
Contestants must then open wide and prove that all of the cookie and milk have been washed down. The first of the two teammates to complete the task was the one whose time was counted.
So Sue O’Hara of Avon entered — and entered and entered.
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| Sue O’Hara and Colleen Lisi took third in an Oreo contest in New Orleans. |
“We sent in 11 entries and got chosen,” O’Hara said in a telephone interview before the cookie contest in New Orleans.
Just how lucky was she to be chosen?
More than 500,000 people entered, O’Hara said.
She was one of 10 finalists to win an all-expense paid trip for four to the Oreo Double Stuf Racing League $10,000 championship race, which was headlined by NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning at their old high school in New Orleans.
She and her racing partner, daughter Colleen Lisi of Olmsted Falls, took third in the event with a time of 35 seconds. They rounded out an all-Buckeye podium with winners Dallas Davis Sr. and Dallas Davis Jr. from Dayton and second-place finishers Marie Balog and son Ted Balog from Chippewa Lake and Rittman.
“It was just a whole first-class affair,” O’Hara said Friday, after her successful trip down south.
O’Hara said she and her husband, John, do sweepstakes as a hobby, and the contest was mentioned in a sweepstakes letter they receive.
After learning she was a finalist, O’Hara set out to practice her Oreo-licking technique — or rather, learn an Oreo-licking technique. And then she and her daughter had to do some serious practicing before heading out to New Orleans.
Lisi beat her mother by a few seconds to clock their team’s official time, O’Hara said.
One of O’Hara’s favorite parts was that each team member was given a jacket with his or her name on the back, and that their cheerleaders — O’Hara’s husband and their family friend, Betty Lapos from Avon — received pompoms and megaphones.
“It was an awesome, awesome time,” O’Hara said.
And before entering the contest, she had never even heard of Oreo racing.
Contact Alison Dietz at 329-7128 or metro@chroniclet.com.
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Comment from
bmfoe
July 12, 2008, 7:15 am
Perhaps the reason so many in the area are getting so F-A-T?
Comment from
Jack Miller
July 12, 2008, 4:38 pm
And fat people wonder why they are the butt off jokes. Take the two ladies in the photo.
“Oh look John! There’s going to be an Oreo licking contest and we could lick our way to $10,000, ” Sue says excitedly.
“John, enraptured with the prospect of winning money and to hell with his wife’s health, replies, “You lick a lot of stamps entering all the sweepstakes envelopes and I’m sure you could lick a couple of thousand calories and chemicals additives to win us the $10,000.”
Sue, also enraptured by the lure of easy money and a diminished lack of concern for her overweight daughter’s health, exclaims with glee, “I can ask Colleen to be my partner! If anyone could lick them Oreos, she can!”
I could go on, but you get the idea. There are overweight people who do things like this that encourage the jokes toward them.. A couple of years ago, El Paso was named the fattest city in America. City leaders were embarrassed, some denounced the title as being wrong. If anybody has been to El Paso, you’ll see the title fits (pun intended) them well. What happened? Overweight folks held meetings, programs were started by the city and declarations of, look out world, El Paso is going to get thin! Yeehaw! Six months later it was business as usual at the snack aisle in supermarkets, fast food drive throughs and not exercising. I get tired of folks from other countries saying Americans are the fattest people they’ve ever seen. What happened to our sense of self respect in this country? Exercise and eat well people!
Comment from
Dan S.
July 12, 2008, 8:14 pm
Wish I would have known about that contest!
I’d just have to think about the good food I’d be eating in New Orleans after the contest and I’d salivate pure hydrochloric acid that would melt the creamy center in a half second, with any excess drool burning a hole in the table.
All that acid helps prepare your stomach for the spicy food.
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