Youth who participated in the Oreo Madness program recently at both the Belle Branch and at the Vienna Branch of Heartland Regional Library System. The fun program had participants competing in a March Madness-style tournament to determine the group’s favorite Oreo cookie flavor. 

In Belle there were eight who played the Oreo Madness game. In Vienna there were 18 participants in the single elimination tournament, with two adults and the rest were students ages 10 to 15. Who better to choose a favorite Oreo cookie flavor than a bunch of hungry students at an after school program. They sampled each of the Oreo cookie flavors, two at a time, and then voted for the favorite, eliminating the flavor that didn’t win. Youth Librarian Kacie James had a basketball-type bracket, but instead of college basketball teams, the bracket was of images of Oreo cookie packages in the competing flavors. 

The flavors the participants sampled were original, golden, fudge covered mint, fudge covered original, carrot cake, birthday cake, chocolate confetti cake, caramel coconut, peanut butter, chocolate peanut butter pie, ultimate chocolate, chocolate, dark chocolate, lemon, mint, and chocolate hazelnut.

This is a lot of cookie sampling, but nobody complained. 

The Belle students chose Fudge Covered Mint as their Oreo Madness winner.

In Vienna, the Golden Oreo took Oreo Madness honors.