The internet is full of fabulous facts about everything from current events to the history basket weaving and fig newton fun facts. As we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge that we just did not know.

We have decided when these fun facts pop up, that we would share them with our readers in our section titled “Did You Know?”

For today’s Did You Know we will look at Fig Newton fun facts.

Fig Newton Fun Facts: A Fig Newton is a soft cookie filled with fig jam. A machine invented in 1891 made the mass production of Fig Newtons possible. James Henry Mitchell invented a machine which worked like a funnel within a funnel; the inside funnel supplied jam, while the outside funnel pumped out the dough, this produced an endless length of filled cookie, that was then cut into smaller pieces.

• Fig Newtons were created in 1891 by the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. They had named many of their other cookies for nearby towns, and almost called it the “Fig Shrewsbury” before Newton won out.
• Alternate story, the man who originated the Fig Newton, Charles Roser put his cookie recipe to work in his factory in Kenton, Ohio, and sold out to Nabisco in 1910.
• According to Nabisco:  “Fig Newtons were named after either Sir Isaac Newton or the town of Newton, Massachusetts.”
• January 16th is National Fig Newton Day.
• Fig Newtons were one of the first commercially baked products in America.
• Fig Newtons are the 3rd most popular cookie in the U.S., over 1 billion are consumed each year.

Learn how to make homemade fig newtons [here]

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Reference: Wikipedia: Fun Facts about Fig Newtons.

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