I'm Finnish, we never had Oreos growing up, but I was fairly familiar with the brand just from American pop culture. We did have our own indigenous brands of chocolate-flavoured sandwich cookies with a bland creme in the middle, though (making Oreos wholly redundant)
Starting from like 5 years ago, however, I started noticing Oreos popping up in things like product cross-overs and Burger King (itself another recent American arrival) milkshake flavours, and now the damn things and their billion slightly different variants are taking up a significant chunk of real estate in the biscuit sections of most supermarkets. I'm kind of impressed by the the speed in which they managed to force themselves onto the market
Mondelez International/Kraft Foods apparently owns Marabou, the famous Swedish chocolate company and a bunch of other European chocolate makers as well as Nabisco, which explains the cross-brand marketing blitz. The world may be dying but at least we'll all be eating the same American trash before it does
It isn't imperialism, at least in any sort of explicit way, it's just globalism that's had more time to progress. The policies haven't been radically different since the 90s when the WTO was first established. European and other foreign brands also have more prominence in the states than they did historically.
Overtime it won't matter where you are in the world, all the big stores will be the same no matter where you go.
I was being a bit humorous with the title. I just find the immense money and effort put into pushing such a bland nothing product kind of interesting