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It's a little known fact that...
Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries' Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company's thousands of shortcake pans which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally "Twinkies."

I read somewhere that until the banana shortage during WWII, Twinkies were banana-flavored. (That was back in the "old days" when they got flavors from real foods.)

46 posted on 10/01/2003 7:05:02 AM PDT by Fawnn (God's in His Heaven (always true). All's right with the world (prayers needed for the last part))

48 posted on 10/01/2003 7:08:14 AM PDT by Valin (If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?)