http://b985.fm Central Maine's Country Thu, 23 May 2013 13:43:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://b985.fm/over-17-billion-toys-put-in-cracker-jacks-boxes/ http://b985.fm/over-17-billion-toys-put-in-cracker-jacks-boxes/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:42:15 +0000 Randy McCoy http://b985.fm/?p=60517 Cracker Jacks, the candy popcorn, made its debut in 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair, the same fair that introduced the Ferris wheel, Aunt Jemima Pancakes and the ice cream cone. A German immigrant sold popcorn from a cart when he and his brother came up with the idea of candy-coated popcorn they named ‘Cracker Jacks’.

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