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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.
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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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