Homemade oreos. My favourite part of boycotting is the creativity it unlocks in the kitchen and workshop
Homemade oreos. My favourite part of boycotting is the creativity it unlocks in the kitchen and workshop
HOT TIP: when boycotting, try dupe recipes at home to share with friends. Sometimes there isn't a local alternative brand available but there is always someone with a recipe blog on the internet. I can still have doublestuffed mint chocolate sandwich cookies without funding the capitalist machine crushing my American friends ☺️
This recipe I used 1 cup butter substitute (i used a canola spread) 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour ½ cup cocoa powder (i use trade aid or donovans) ½ cup golden syrup 1 teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Mix in a food processor then set in the fridge for 25 minutes
Filling: ½ cup vegetable shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup powdered sugar 1/4 cup flour Mint extract to taste
Or just do a small spoonful of peanutbutter as a filling
Roll out the dough to about 5mm thickness. Stamp and cut.
My oven is a joke so not sure the temp but i turn it on and bake for about 8-10 minutes. It will be a low temperature, probably like 170c. They are still soft when i pull them out so I let them sit on the pan to cool before filling and stacking
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Crap. I don't know if I can boycott Oreos. Are they part of P2025? :(
I'm doing a full boycott of all American or American owned Mega corps. Pride themed cookies isn't enough for me, I want to a fair pay structure at all levels of their supply chain, more accountability on their environmental impacts, and a stance against facisim. Until then, I'll just buy as local as I can and bake my own 🫤
Not a bad idea. I wonder how hard that would be to do in the US. You in the US?
I live in Aotearoa New Zealand so we are lucky enough to still have a lot of local owned brands and i live rural so I have neighbours farmstalls and my own produce options.
That sounds nice. I looked into moving there. It appears to be beyond my means.
Not easy outside of high-skills or wealth.
Hell yeah
You should cease eating them over their inclusion of GMO ingredients alone, but that is just my opinion.
and even if you don't think GMOs are an issue, Oreos are made with palm oil linked to rainforest destruction and human rights abuses.
There is no ethical consumption, but I don't think I can convince my wife to give up Oreos... Hmm.
I'd better not risk it.
These are honestly really really good. Like a fudgier oreo
Hmm. I'll share the recipe 💛
sure, but there's more or less unethical consumption - I think it's good to be aware that as a single consumer your impact is minimal (read: irrelevant), but participating in collective action like a boycott can and does drive change
to that end, engage with those collective actions and don't fret too much about "ethical consumption" - this is just one tool among many (i.e. not eating Oreos isn't about being ethical or a good person, it's about participating in a coordinated boycott and achieving certain political ends)
Yeah I use goods unite us and that spreadsheet that lists anti-dei corpos, I haven't given up, just bemoaning that the arc of time doesn't bend quickly enough towards justice.
Sources for the interested: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1uROwPsnRaFk1YiW-pAaRbdX4XbzC0AmMBD2KxH_X7Og/htmlview
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodsuniteus.goods