Twinkies, Little Debbie, Pop Rocks, Cheetos, Lunchables.
No, this isn't an updated rendition of my favorite things from the sound of music.
It's a history of our nation's favorite junk food.
For the best way to understand America is not by looking into the hearts and minds of its citizens, but by the content of their snack box.
Today on Weird History Food, we're talking America's favorite junk food through the decades.
Junk food as we know it today, really began at the turn of the century.
The dawn of the Industrial Revolution really gave mass produced snacks their legs.
So what was our nation's very first confection?
Something to go along with America's favorite sport?
Crackerjack, as featured in America's enduring banger, take me out to the ball game.
