(1940)

The first version of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile rolled out of General 
Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL. It was created by Oscar Mayer’s
nephew, Carl G. Mayer. The drivers of the slender vehicles are known
as Hotdoggers.

Oscar Mayer

The Weinermobile today

Orville Clarence Redenbacher (July 16, 1907 – September 19, 1995)

After graduation from Purdue University, he started a very successful
fertilizer company, devoting his free time to improving popcorn.

Redenbacher was found dead in the Jacuzzi of his condominium in 
Coronado, California. Authorities determined he had suffered a heart 
attack and drowned. He was cremated and his ashes scattered at
sea. 

Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr.

Amos is a entrepreneur and author from Tallahassee, Florida. He
is the founder of the "Famous Amos" chocolate chip cookie brand
in 1975. He later co-founded Uncle Wally’s muffins. He currently
resides in Kailua, Hawaii and also Long Island, New York, where
he runs the Chip & Cookie gourmet cookie brand and stores.

(AP) – Hostess is betting on a sweet comeback for Twinkies when they return to
shelves starting on July 15.

The company that went bankrupt in early 2012 after an acrimonious fight with its 
unionized workers is back up and running under new owners, Metropoulos & Co.
and Apollo Global Management. The team bought Twinkies and other Hostess
cakes products for $410 million.

The company says the cakes will taste the same but that the boxes will now bear
the tag line "The Sweetest Comeback In The History Of Ever."

Twinkies were invented in the town of River Forest, Illinois on April 6, 1930 by
James Alexander Dewar, a baker for the Continental Baking Company.

James A. Dewar