Fig Newtons | New England By the Numbers

16 January date known to snack enthusiasts as National Fig Newton Day 101 number of years Fig Newtons were called “cakes”—not marketed as “cookies” until 1982 1891 year Kennedy Biscuit Co. (now Nabisco) of Cambridge, MA, began producing the fig-filled confection $2491 base monthly rent to live amid baking history today: an 862-square-foot Cambridge loft, once home to Kennedy Biscuit Co. 100 length in inches of the cookie served at the 1991 centennial celebration in Newton, MA—the city for which the cookie is named THIRTY number of product versions available today under the Newtons brand FIFTY-SIX Fig Newtons consumed on March 26, 2005, by Martin Tighe of Attleboro, Mass., to fuel his Guinness World Record for most miles (85.83) run on a treadmill over 12 hours ONE New Englanders’ ranking among the nation’s consumers of Newtons cookies 2011 year “Fig” is dropped from the brand name; free of the laxative/geriatric undertone of “Fig,” sales of Newtons are energized 123 years after they came into production, Newtons remain a top 10 seller among Nabisco cookies

PRINT