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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Pop Culture History- The Twinkie is first baked on 6 April 1930.

1930: THE TWINKIE. The first Twinkie bounced out of the ovens at Continental Baking Co. in River Forest on April 6, 1930. Plant manager James Dewar was looking to create a cheap, two-for-a nickel snack. So he grabbed some shortcake pans and got cookin'. Dewar got the name from a billboard for Twinkle Toe Shoes. He shortened it to Twinkies, and the rest is snack food history.

Twinkies were first baked on 6 April 1930. The original Twinkies had a banana cream filling. When bananas were rationed during WWII they changed to a cream filling. It was more popular so they never changed back.

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Mediamonitor aka Christie Cantrell: Raleigh, NC, United States; I am passionate about many things and the older I get, the more I find myself expanding my interests. I don't take things at face value, thus I am quite active in researching in order to get to the truth behind the hype and sensationalism. When I have the facts, I'm able to form an educated opinion instead of blindly accepting what is fed to the public through the media. I wanted a forum to share my thoughts on books I've read, movies I've watched, music I love and current events that arise in politics and the media.

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