![]() ![]() He decided to fill the small, oblong cakes with a banana-cream filling and name them after the "Twinkle Toe" shoes he saw advertised on a billboard in St. That's just one of the urban myths surrounding the snack cakes that were invented in 1930.īack then, James Dewar, manager of Chicago's Continental Bakery, wanted to find another use for his company's shortcake pans. Hostess now bakes 500 million Twinkies a year.This month, the little cream-filled, yellow sponge cake celebrates its 75th birthday and, no, it's not because the same ones have been on the shelf for that long. Bananas were rationed during World War II so he replaced the banana cream with vanilla cream. ![]() He put them to use by baking little cakes injected with banana cream filling, and called them Twinkies (inspired by a billboard that advertised Twinkle Toe shoes). Dewar, manager of a Chicago baking plant during the Depression, saw that shortcake pans used during strawberry season just sat around the rest of the year. He felt that he’d done something with his life by making kids happy around the world. Diemer never received any royalties and retired from Fleer in 1970. Even though it became a global sensation, Mr. When he finally had a batch that was stretchier and less sticky than most other gums, he sent 100 pieces to a candy shop and they sold out in one afternoon.įleer started selling the gum, calling it Dubble Bubble. Diemer, an accountant for Philly’s Fleer Chewing Gum Company, fooled around trying to produce a gum base that could be blown into bubbles. Unilever now sells two billion of them each year in the US. He initially called the treats Epsicles but his children called them Pop’s ’sicles. Epperson applied for a patent for his discovery. The next morning: frozen sweet stuff on a stick. The chewy chocolate taste was - and still is - a bonus.īy accident, on a cold night in San Francisco in 1905, an 11 year old left a powdered soda drink on the porch with a stirring stick still in it. Originally manufactured in New York City, their production changed junk food because they were the first individually wrapped penny candy. ![]() 1905: Tootsie Rolls - The First Individually Wrapped Penny Candy.They ultimately created a product that was, and is, salable and commercially viable and salable. ![]() They perfected it by 1896 and called their treat Cracker Jack. The molasses, popcorn, and peanut combo was first sold by street vendor brothers at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair. 1896: Cracker Jack – America’s First Junk Food?.He sees junk food “as an incredible phenomenon that’s changed America, for better and worse.” Smith, author of the Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food includes soft drinks, ready made burgers, salty snacks, candy, and ice cream – foods with little or no nutritional value and/or high fat and calories - in his definitions of junk and fast food. Junk Food: A Phenomenon That Changed AmericaĪndrew F. According to the New York Times, the history of junk food as we know it is an American back story interlaced with genius, serendipity, and plain old cleverness. It’s been around for centuries in all cultures and all over the world, but America has done one heck of a job coming up with a whole slew of varieties of junk food then branding, mass producing, and eating it. ![]()
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