Name America's first junk food (you can do this) (or maybe not)

Let Us Now Praise the Great Men of Junk Food - NYTimes.com

The history of junk food is a largely American tale: It has been around for hundreds of years, in many parts of the world, but no one has done a better job inventing so many varieties of it, branding it, mass-producing it, making people rich off it and, of course, eating it.