There's a longstanding myth that figs, and by extension Fig Newtons, have bits of wasp sitting inside the fruit. Although this sounds too wild to be even considered as true, it's actually based in ...

Fig Newtons first came on the nation's cookie scene ... People loved its crumbly pastry outside and dollop of fruit filling inside. This snack food is one of the oldest and remains in the national ...

Lloyd W. “Fig” Newton, a great-grandson of slaves, grew up on a South Carolina farm in the twilight of the Jim Crow era, when African Americans had to use separate bathrooms, enter doctors' or ...