As far as I remember, David never had a trike when he was young. What he did have was something called the “Green Machine” that was a lot more interesting than any trike. It looked essentially like this 
but as I remember, it was a lot flatter and longer and chain drive.
Here is a trike of a different color . . . namely Red and FAST!!!
Looks like fun to me!
This was taken from the following.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Companies & Industries
Food & Drink
The Many Faces of Oreo, Some of Them Weird
By Allison Prang January 23, 2015
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The real thing – Photographer: Getty Images
A red-velvet Oreo? To those who think biting into a Double-Stuf is really living, this must seem a bacchanal. But it’s only the latest in a series of evolutionary stages for Oreolis cookius.
A bakery in Chelsea Market made the first one. Then, six decades later, somebody had an idea.
Stacks of them! – Photographer: Getty Images
The name said it all. The F-skimping “Stuf” was an ironic nod to the bounty within (we just made that up). The controversy: Was it really double?
Double or nothing on the “f”!! – Source: Amazon.com
Mint in the middle. That is all.
The cookie of Nabisco lawyers, perhaps, using Big instead of Double.
An obvious idea, yet brilliant in its simplicity. Like Google’s logo, the Oreo’s design is such a fixture of the American marketing landscape that when you turn the inside orange, people go: Cool!
Halloween Oreos! – Photographer: Robyn Lee
OK, that was just weird.
Red stuf? – Source: Amazon.com
Chocolate on the inside, chocolate on the outside. Is that picture just a little bit obscene?
I think I would have called it “chocolate-chocolate-chocolate”? – Source: Amazon.com
Chocolate filling, vanilla wafers. It was meant to be temporary but proved so popular they kept it on the shelves. (Call this one “vanilla-chocolate-vanilla”?)
For that is what marketers call vanilla.
All that glitters is not Oreo! – Source: Amazon.com
To avoid massive confusion, the package explained: “Fun Football Shape!” And it was.
Source: Mike Mozart/flickr
Among the last of the -sters (Napster, Friendster), cute little Cakesters got even smaller in 2008 when they were packaged into 100-calorie packs.
Ain’t it cute! – Source: Derek Lo/flickr
If you’ve been paying attention, you know this was an unholy alliance of the 1974 and 2004 product rollouts.
Oreo celebrates its 100th birthday.
Birthday cake? – Source: Mike Mozart/flickr
How could you not?
Nuttin’ like cookie dough for cookies, right? – Source: Mike Mozart/flickr
Limited edition! Artificially flavored! We’ll eat it anyway!
Red velvet, if you please!! – Source: Mondelez International Inc.
[ end of the article – apologies to the holders of any copyrights I might have trampled upon, I am not making any claim to ownership or some other thing, this was just too good to pass up! ]
Oreos are not the only reason that David’s Dad was known as the “Cookie Monster” but they made a great starting point! It has only been about 5 or 6 years that Oreos have been made in Europe and thus were available in the grocery stores here – but that saved my life! 😀
I did a little of my own research and discovered that the company, Mondelēz Global LLC, has a website at http://www.snackworks.com and they say there that there are 101 (yup, you read that right!) Oreo cookies available. On closer inspection, the packaging makes for a number of duplications, but there are a number of things there (sticking to the traditional Oreo design) that are new to me, like banana split, coconut, double chocolate fudge, and more and more (see the images below, also!).
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Hi there, since I broke down and bought the .com version of David’s Birthday, I decided maybe it was time to redo the website as well. Hope you like it? It will probably take some time to extract the goodies out of the old website, so hang in there…