Chicken or Egg

Which came first? #3 · Food & drink

Chicken or Egg, October 3: Tabasco sauce, Hydrox cookies, Oreo, Nutella, Red Bull

Puzzle #3, Food & drink, Saturday, October 3, 2026. Six things, one order. Here is the answer, earliest to latest.

Earliest
  1. 1
    Tabasco sauce1868

    Edmund McIlhenny first sold it in 1868 in used cologne bottles.

  2. 2
    Hydrox cookies1908

    The original chocolate sandwich cookie. Oreo was the knockoff.

  3. 3
    Oreo1912

    Nabisco introduced the Oreo in 1912, four years after Hydrox, the cookie it copied.

  4. 4
    Nutella1964

    Ferrero's Nutella jar first appeared in 1964.

  5. 5
    Red Bull1987

    Launched in Austria in 1987, adapted from a Thai drink called Krating Daeng.

Latest
The twistHydrox cookies came first. Hydrox cookies dates to 1908; Oreo to 1912. Most people put them the other way round.
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