Trivia: Keeping Hostess in business.

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE


QUOTE: "You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

HINT: (1918-1992), American spiritual teacher, author, and philosopher.

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RANDOM TIDBITS


Twinkies were invented in 1930, at the beginning of the Great Depression by James A. Dewar, a plant manager at Continental Baking Company (Hostess’ parent company).

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Dewar had a hard time coming up with a name for his new snack until he drove past a billboard for the Twinkle Toes Shoes factory in St. Louis. A friend suggested the name “Twinkle Fingers”, and Dewar shortened it to Twinkies.

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The original Twinkies filling was a banana-flavored creme. However, during World War II, there was a shortage of banana, so the filling was switched to vanilla.

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There are 17 Hostess bakeries across the countries cranking out 500 million Twinkies every year. It takes 40,000 miles of plastic wrap a year to package them. At 150 Calorie a piece, all those Twinkies have the energy equivalent to nearly 51,500 barrels of crude oil.

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In 1986, Twinkies were a central figure in a political scandal known as “Twinkiegate“. 71-year-old George Belair, a Minneapolis City Council candidate was indicted for serving coffee, Kool-Aid, Twinkies and other sweets to court the senior citizen votes. This led to the passage of the Minnesota Campaign Act, more commonly known as Twinkies Law. Belair lost the election, and the charges against him were later dropped.

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The White House put a Twinkie in their time capsule for the new millennium, as “an object of enduring American symbolism.”

(www.neatorama.com)

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QUOTE: "You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

ANSWER: Vernon Howard.

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