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• In 1932 Charles Lubin and his brother-in-law purchased a chain of bakeries in Chicago called the Community Bake Shops. The business was successful, but in 1949 Charles and his brotherin-law parted ways and Charles took over the business. • Charles believed that because the business had been so successful in supplying baked goods to the grocery stores of Chicago, he should try supplying baked goods to the mass market of America, so he began to experiment with ways to do that. • He invented a method that allowed desserts to be baked, frozen, shipped, and reheated in a foil pan. His first mass-market product was a frozen cheesecake, which needed a name. • His wife Tillie suggested he name it after their daughter, and he did. The cheesecake became so popular that he renamed the entire corporation after his daughter. He added more products such as pound cake and coffee cake, and by 1955 his products were sold all over the country. • The business was so profitable that Charles sold out to Consolidated Foods in 1956. By then the name of his daughter was so widely recognized that Consolidated Foods adopted it as the new name of their corporation, hiring him to be their CEO. • Charles retired in 1965 and died in 1988 at the age of 84, by which time the company’s products were well on their way to being sold around the world. Shortly after his death, his daughter became a spokesperson for the corporation that was named after her. And her own daughter (Charles’ grandaughter) even interned at the factory. What was the name of Charles’ daughter, now on packages of frozen desserts all over the world? (Answer at top of next page)
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Country and Commercial Properties 201 South 9th Street P.O. Box 1034 Opelika, Alabama 36803 (334) 749-1221 / (800) 828-8042 www.countryandcommercial.com
42” Riding mower, craftsman, 7000 pro series, with bagger, 4yr. mfw, 2014, $1,200 Mr. Love 404-246-4694
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Answer: Sarah Lee. A NEW TREAT • Continental Bakeries made a variety of items under the Hostess brand in the 1920s and 1930s. One of them was a strawberry shortcake, composed of a single-serving oblong sponge cake injected with strawberry cream filling. The problem was that strawberries were a seasonal item, available only a few months of the year. The rest of the year, the equipment used to make the cakes sat idle. • While delivering a load of strawberry cakes to a vendor one day, company vice-president James Deware decided what he needed was a product that would use this equipment all year. Finally he hit on banana cream cakes because bananas were available year-round. • He called them Little Shortcake Fingers, and a nickel bought a package of two. A few years later on the way to a marketing meeting, his eye fell on a billboard advertising a brand of shoes, and he adapted that name for the product. • Originally the cakes were made with eggs, milk, and butter, which gave them a shelf life of only a day or two before becoming stale. It was expensive to have salesmen constantly replenishing store shelves, so the recipe was reformulated, giving them a shelf life of three to four weeks, mostly due to the airtight cellophane packaging. • During World War II a banana shortage forced him to re-vamp the recipe once again, and the familiar vanilla-flavored snack cake was born. Today, 500 million are produced every year. They are called Twinkies. • Twinkies can be frozen to expand their lifespan.
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