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It s National Twinkies Day: Go ahead and treat yourself Buy a local version of the snack cakes or even make your own. April 6, 2021 8:18am Text size Copy shortlink:
Get out the candles Twinkies are 91 years old today, and they re showing no signs of slowing down.
Hostess still produces the staple of lunchboxes, late-night cravings and nostalgia-fueled snacking at a rate of more than a million a day.
The snack cakes were invented in Illinois by baker James Dewar, who was looking to make better use of the shortcake pans that sat idle outside of strawberry season. Dewar s original version was filled with banana crème, but was switched to vanilla when bananas were in short supply during World War II. The original cost? Five cents for two snack cakes.