Today is: National Fig Newton Day

Fig Newtons are cookies filled with fig paste or jam, which are a trademarked variation of the fig roll; they are manufactured by Nabisco, a company owned by Mondelez International. As Nabisco now uses different flavored jams in the cookies besides figs, including berries and apples, the brand is no longer called "Fig Newtons," but simply "Newtons." Nonetheless, today celebrates the fig variety of the Newton.

John Henry Mitchell developed a machine in 1892 that put a jam filling in a hollow cookie crust. He brought the machine to the Kennedy Biscuit Works. In 1898, Kennedy Biscuit Works combined with other companies to form the National Biscuit Country, which became known as Nabisco a few years later.

Source: Checkiday.com

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