How a WW2 banana shortage changed the course of Twinkie history

Bombing during World War II made the shipping of bananas and oranges across oceans particularly treacherous. As a result, Dewar was forced to alter his recipe from banana to the much more accessible vanilla. As time went on, the commercialization of packaged desserts proliferated, and Twinkies became a lot more popular but much less... homemade. And even though bananas became widely available again after the war, Dewar’s delicacies didn’t deviate from the vanilla cream flavor that has become so well-loved by the zeitgeist.

1LT Peter Duston Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

MAJ Montgomery Granger I posted this yesterday.

Twinkies have so much preservative that maybe some of the WWII ones are still around?? haha