Tastykate - an East Coast Phenomenon

If you've lived or visited places on the East Coast of the United States you've most likely come across ads, word of mouth, or even the Tastykake products themselves at some time in your travels.

When my family moved to the east coast it did not take long before I crossed paths with these delectable goodies!

Tastykake Quality
Developed by Philip J. Baur, a Pittsburgh baker and a Boston egg salesman, Herbert T. Morris in 1914,the two went into business intent on producing high quality baked goods. Insisting on only the finest and freshest ingredients, they combed the earth for farm fresh eggs, Grade A creamery butter, real milk, cocoa, spices, and natural flavoring, which they had delivered daily to their Philadelphia bakery. Perhaps this is why the Tasty Baking Company's products represent the industry benchmark for consistent taste, quality, and freshness.

The Tastykake Name
With the freshest and finest ingredients these cakes tasted so good that after sampling some, Herbert Morris' wife declared them "tasty." The word stuck and eventually, they named the business Tasty Baking Company and the catchy name, Tastykake.

Tastykake Fun Facts
- If one chicken were to lay all of the eggs used for one day of production at Tastykake, it would take that chicken 572 years to lay enough eggs.

- Tastykake's oven is half the length, 150 feet long, of a regulation football field (300 ft).

- Tastykake began making donuts in 1985. Today they make more than 1.4 million Cream-Filled Cupcakes everyday.

- Tastykake bakes 250,000 pies each day.

- Tastykake uses the equivalent of 40,000 bushels of apples each year.

- Tastykake products use sugar cane and cocoa from Africa's Ivory Coast; Vanilla from Madagascar; Cinnamon from Indonesia; Nutmeg from the East and West Indies and Banana Puree from Ecuador.

- The first day of operations in 1914, Tastykake bakers produced 100 cakes. Today, they bake over 4.8 million cakes, donuts,
cookies, and pies each day.

- 280,000 Chocolate Juniors and 3,500,000 Butterscotch Krimpets are baked weekly.

- 500,000 Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes a day, over 130 million a year.

-. 439,000 Butterscotch Krimpets a day, over 160 million a year.

- 217,000 Chocolate Cupcakes a day, over 79 million a year.

- The top-selling item in the entire Tastykake line of products is Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes.

- Tastykake uses 135,000 lb. of sugar daily.

- Alex's Lemon Krimpets is the only Tastykake ever to be created in honor of an individual. (Named for Alexandra "Alex" Scott, a little girl who raised over $1 million for pediatric cancer research through her front-yard lemonade stand. (http://www.alexslemonade.org))

(a href="http://www.alexslemonade.org/")Learn more about Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation here.(/a)

Now, TastyKake is looking for you!
Tastykake is looking for consumers who like to give feedback and participate in surveys through their Consumer Insights group.

Consumers Insights wants consumers like you who will help Tastykake make decisions about their products and offerings. Through quick online surveys, and focus groups, Tastykake will gather your opinions on potential new products, flavors or packaging. You can even get paid for your time and participation! Furthermore, just by signing up online you'll immediately be rewarded with a discount code for ordering online!
Go to http://www.tastykake.com/consumerinsights.aspx to become a Tastykake Consumer Insight participant and get a discount code.