'Father of Peeps' marshmallow candies Bob Born dies at 98
Ira "Bob" Born, a candy company executive known as the "Father of Peeps" for mechanizing the process to make marshmallow chicks, has died. He was 98.
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Ira "Bob" Born, a candy company executive known as the "Father of Peeps" for mechanizing the process to make marshmallow chicks, has died. He was 98.
Ira "Bob" Born developed a machine to make the marshmallow chicks in just six minutes, down from 27 hours previously.
Bob Born earned his nickname for mechanizing the process to make Peeps, speeding up the process from 27 hours to less than six minutes.
Ira “Bob” Born, a candy company executive known as the “Father of Peeps” for mechanizing the process to make the marshmallow chicks, has died
Ira "Bob" Born, 98, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who led Just Born Quality Confections for much of his adult life and mechanized the "Peeps" manufacturing process, died Sunday.