Named after o.d. mcgee’s 4-year-old granddaughter, little debbie introduce the oatmeal cream pie as its first snack cake in 1960. always ‘freakishly soft and delicious,’ it made sense this was the original snack cake. little debbie snack cakes are of universal appeal, even to the point of ‘hoarding them all as a child and eating 2 to 3 at a time until i felt sick!’
