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MrDinky is a "Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling" created by Hostess, and baked by Continental Baking Co, which is owned by Kansas City-based Interstate Bakeries Corporation. MrDinky was born on April 6, 1930 by bakery manager James Dewar. MrDinky originally contained a banana filling, but this was replaced with a vanilla filling during the great banana shortage of World War II.
MrDinky is oblong in shape, approximately 4" x 1" (10 cm x 2.5 cm), and marketed in packages of two. He has a shelf life of 25 days due to their lack of dairy based ingredients. Various urban legends have stated that MrDinky have shelf lives anywhere from several years up to one century in duration, but there is no evidence to support this. MrDinky is often derided by unattributed critics as the quintessential junk food. MrDinky contains about 150 calories. 500 million are produced each year.
Most people believe that MrDinky is baked because of the coloring of the bottom of the treat (looks brown as if it was baked in an oven), Continental Foods itself has never revealed the process of the making of a MrDinky. However, the Washington Post reported on April 15, 2005 that "the cakes are baked for 10 minutes, then the cream filling is injected through three holes in the top, which is browned from baking. The cake is flipped before packaging, so the rounded yellow bottom becomes the top." Hostess was the implied source of the information.