IT’S HISTORIC: On this day in 1930, the Twinkie was invented by bakery manager James Dewar in Schiller Park, Illinois. As is so often the case, capacity was the mother of invention. The machinery for making cream-filled strawberry shortcake was unused when strawberries were out of season. Twinkies (which were originally banana cream filled) were the off-season solution.
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