Hostess created Twinkies in 1930 and the companies’ vice president, James Dewar, was the one who came up with the idea. At Hostess, many of their snack cakes were seasonal meaning they couldn’t use the machines during some parts of the year. James Dewar wanted to make a product that would make those machines more efficient. According to an article by Ed Grabianowsi, “His idea was a simple sponge cake with a flavored cream filling.” The name was chosen because he had seen a Twinkle-Toes advertisement on his way to a meeting.…
Wharton invented a machine that made cotton candy in 1897. Cotton Candy was first introduced in the 1900 at a Paris exposition by the two men. Again in 1904, cotton candy was introduced to the fair of St. Louis. It was sold for about twenty-five cents a box. Over a short time span the sales of the newly renovated cotton candy soared.…
Milton Hershey changed the world in so many ways. He made the world’s most popular chocolate company, gave orphans free education in the city he built, and became famous around the world. Milton Hershey first started having interest in chocolate making when he saw the German chocolate machinery that was in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Soon after that he made his own candy business.…
The 1920’s was a significant time for women at the time. There are many of different social changes as well as cultural changes that the United States experienced because of this so called “Flapper” movement. A Flapper was a fashionable young woman with the intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. Flappers wore their hair short, dared to show their legs, drank, smoked, and cavorted with young men. The book “Flapper” by Joshua Zeitz includes a look at the Hollywood flapper starlets of the era whose executives helped propel the flappers' glamorous look.…
Today, we take sugar for granted because it is so accessible, but what did people do before it was? The Sugar Trade lasted for almost two centuries, from 1655 to 1833. Africa, England, America, Europe, and the West Indies were the most superior in the trading process. It thrived through the world for three main reasons: The colonial islands that had a climate that was ideal for sugar production, the sweet tooth for sugar causing high demand, and the money that funded the assets required for the crucial process of sugar production.…
Do you love candy bars like I do? Out of all the candy bars I have tasted, Snickers is definitely the best. Snickers is the best because the peanuts inside of the bar give it protein. Chocolate is not the most healthy snack ever. The peanuts give it the protein you need in your life.…
During the roaring 20’s there were many new inventions that had a great impact on people's lives. These new inventions were known as “Time Saving Devices.” Hence the name, these inventions gave people more time free time to do the things they enjoyed such as going to sporting events, watching movies, attending speakeasies, and many other activities. One of these new inventions during the 20’s was the washing machine. The first electric washing machine was produced and sold by Hurley Electric Laundry Equipment Company in 1907.…
interest in purchasing Cuba had begun long before 1898. Following the Ten Years War, American sugar interests bought up large tracts of land in Cuba. Alterations in the U.S. sugar tariff favoring home-grown beet sugar helped foment the rekindling of revolutionary fervor in 1895. By that time the U.S. had spent more than fifty thousand dollars in Cuba and trade, mainly in sugar, was worth twice that much. War was becoming intense and had been growing in the United States, despite President Clevelands proclamation of nuterality on June 12, 1895.…
The 1920s was a great time for America. Everything was on the rise. This is the time when America was taken into the modern age. This was also the age for dramatic social and political change. Everything was going great for the American people.…
Growing up in Brooklyn, in the early 90’s was one of the best experiences in my life. I remember the ice cream trucks, corner stores, fire hydrates being opened for the kids especially when there was a block party but most of all, the unity of families and neighbors. Many people will say “Brooklyn, only the strong survive” and I have lived by that phrase my entire life. It showed me the beauty of living in one of the boroughs that makes up New York City and has taught me to be a strong person. It’s not made for the weak.…
Sidney Mintz in Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History interprets the Caribbean history by analyzing the Caribbean production of sugar and its European consumers. Mintz approaches the methodologies of cultural history, Marxism historiography, and anthropology in analyzing the production and consumption patterns, plantation slaves and industrial workers, and the usage and its meanings in modern culture. Mintz claims that sugar necessitated European imperialism, and that empire created European capitalism, white supremacy, and industrialization. According to Mintz, sugar was first domesticated in New Guinea around 8000 B.C.E., and was brought to India about two thousand years later.…
It was not traded widely until around 1317 where the Europeans first tasted it, and became obsessed, starting the sugar trade between South America, Europe, and Africa. Many factors drove the sugar trade, including African slave labor, European capital and Europeans demand for sugar. Humans are naturally greedy for foods that taste good, and the Europeans exploited that greed to make money for themselves through the sugar trade. To start a sugar plantation in South America was a difficult and expensive process. According to document I, you not only had to buy the land, but the curing house, a trash house windmills and at least three hundred slaves.…
1920s: Fads and Trends Fads in the 1920s were ways to forget the horrific memories of the war and live a new life. Games and Contests • One of the first fads was the ancient Chinese game, Mahjong but by 1927, it got old. • The new fad that replaced Mahjong was the crossword puzzle.…
In the Article "How Candy Conquered America" by Kristin Lewis & Lauren Tarshis humans should be aware and eat less sugar. Many consequence come when humans consume to much sugar. To begin with, people should consume less sugar because they can get serious and scary diseases. One of these diseases includes liver cancer which can lead to death. Sugar has an ingredient called fructose corn syrup which can build up in the liver and cause this disease.…
Science Fair Research Paper Have you ever eaten rock candy? Ever wonder if you could try to find a way to make the crystal bigger? I am testing different forms of sugar in different temperatures of water to see if it will form a bigger crystal. Sugar dissolves due to its molecules separating from one another, crystallization is a chain reaction where the melted sugar starts to re-form, and different types of sugar crystalize differently due to the overall elements and shapes of the molecule.…