(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

Time to break for lunch

The above photos are from the Oregon State University Archives, showing
berry pickers on "victory farms" in 1946.

Business executive and food developer Donald Goerke, inventor of
Spaghetti O’s.

SpaghettiOs canned pasta was Introduced by the Campbell Soup Company
under the Franco-American brand. It was created by Donald Goerke (above)
after a year-long study of the appropriate shape for a pasta dish that people
could eat without making a mess. During his 35 years with Campbell, Goerke
created over 100 products including the Chunky line of soups.

The holiday commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over French forces at 
the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.

The original Paas Easter egg dye was invented in1893 by William Townley.
a drug store owner in Newark, New Jersey. He concocted recipes for home
products and figured out how to concentrate dye in tablet form and made
the modern Easter egg dyeing kit. The original price of each tablet was
five cents and customers would make the dye by combining the tablets
with water and vinegar. Townley eventually renamed his business the
Paas Dye Company. The name Paas comes from “Pasen,” the word
used by the Dutch for Easter. Paas is the largest manufacturer of
Easter egg dyes.