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NABISCO

When Standard Brands Company, owner of Curtiss Candy Company, was acquired by Nabisco in 1981, they realized they had somehow lost the original recipes for the Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars. No one at the old Curtiss factory remembered how to make the candy bars, and Nabisco had to develop new recipes that customers would accept.

Nabisco introduced Oreo cookies in 1912 to compete with Hydrox Biscuit Bonbons.

Nabisco produced 16 billion Oreo cookies in 1995 at its factory in Chicago, Illinois, the largest of its kind in the world.

The Lorna Doone shortbread cookie was introduced in 1912. No one, even at Nabisco, is quite sure of exactly how the name was chosen.  All that can be said is that R.D. Blackmore, a British novelist, was the author of a popular book titled 'Lorna Doone,' the lead character, Lorna Doone of course, was of Scottish heritage, and shortbread was considered Scottish. Hence, a shortbread cookie named Lorna Doone.

Origin of ‘Fig Newtons’
According to Nabisco: Fig Newtons were named after either Sir Isaac Newton or the town of Newton, Massachussettes.
They were one of the first commercially baked products in America.

The following alternate story is from an article in the St. Petersburg Times, 1998:
"The man who originated the Fig Newton, Charles Roser put his cookie recipe to work in his factory in Kenton, Ohio, and sold out to Nabisco in 1910, says Ray Arsenault, in St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream."
 

 

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