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• O.D. McKee sold the very first Oatmeal Creme Pie in early 1935. The popular snack was used many years later to launch the Little Debbie brand.

• The Little Debbie brand was born in 1960. Company founders, O.D. and Ruth McKee, named the product line after their granddaughter, Debbie.

• The first Little Debbie snacks were sold in a carton of 12 and had a retail price of 49 cents. Twelve cakes would have cost 60 cents if sold separately.

• The Little Debbie® bow tie has been in use continuously since 1963. A graphic artist decided a red bow tie would look great on the packaging and placed it just above the die-cut opening that was on all of our cartons at the time.

• Currently, there are more than 150 varieties of Little Debbie snacks.

• The top-selling varieties of Little Debbie snacks are Oatmeal Crème Pies, Swiss Cake Rolls, Nutty Bars Wafer Bars and Honey Buns.

• Little Debbie snacks are made by McKee Foods, America’s Family Bakery. With our corporate headquarters in Tennessee, we also have plants in Virginia and Arkansas.

• Little Debbie snacks are sold in all 50 states, Canada and Mexico.



Just for Fun

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• If you lined up all the Little Debbie snacks that have been sold over the years, they would cover 9.9 million miles – enough to circle the earth almost 400 times!

• You could fill the Globe at Epcot Center in Disney World 744 times with all of the snack cakes Little Debbie has sold since 1960.

• Little Debbie snacks have orbited the earth on the space shuttle, traveling more than 17,500 miles an hour. Little Debbie snacks have been a standard pantry item on space shuttle missions for many years.

• Little Debbie Fudge Brownies were one of Elvis Presley’s favorite snacks.

• Nick Saban, head coach of the University of Alabama, eats Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies each day.

• The first national Little Debbie commercial from the 1980s featured comedian and impersonator Rich Little rapping while posing as Jack Nicholson, George Burns and Crocodile Dundee (Paul Hogan).

• Little Debbie currently has more than 1 million Facebook fans and close to 20,000 followers on Twitter!


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