"Desiccation Was Its Saving Grace"
So says Maine science teacher Roger Bennatti of the shelf life of your average Twinkie.The little snack cake he set atop his blackboard 31 years ago as an experiment is still there.
In fact, he retired before it expired.
Hear more on NPR.
For really special science fun with Twinkies, waddle over here.
And if you think you can gaze unblinkingly at the personal consequences of ingesting Twinkies, check in with the aptly named Candy Sagon of the Washington Post or with my distant neighbor Joseph Stirt at his preservative-free blog, bookofjoe.
This was going to be a post about Twinkies, articulated buses, and the PBS classics of the 1960s and 1970s I mentioned on Wednesday.
But I think one irrelevant bit of flotsam from my mind at a time is plenty much. Don't you?
[Image of "Twinkie Henge" via Tian Harter's Art Everywhere link]
categories: amusement miscellany
posted by lisa schamess @ 10:11
5 Comments:
And just thinky
I never had a Twinky
bar
Twinky
Twinky
little
star
;o)
rarity, in the U.S., them's fightin' words. You might as well say you've never had Classic Coke or watched any of the Star Wars trilogy. Shame on you. And you claim to be an amerophile (or do you? actually, you claim to enjoy the English language, which is something Americans are unjustly accused of damaging).
Anyway. Seems that even if I sent you a pack o' Twinkies by the slowest postal route, they would arrive intact.
On a related topic--do the postmen still deliver mail to the fjords by boat? Oh, I forgot. You're a city dweller.
Does it help at all that
A) On my last trip to the states (summer of 1998) I brought home a huge pack of Aunt Jemima's pan cake mix, cause I LOVE those.
B) I now buy the mix in a store I found that imports them
C) I love French Toast
D) I love Oreos
E) Favourite shows have been: I love Lucy, SOAP, Seinfeld, Friends and Frasier
F) My parents read Mother Goose for me as a child...
G) I always rooted for Wile E. Coyote
and finally because
H) I have frantically written all of this to make you forgive me for not eating Twinkies...
I bet you never had lutefisk or pinnekjøtt or fårikål or... (just trying to get back at you, sorry ;o)
PS! Think even the remotest parts of the fjords have access by car. (Then, off course, there are some island dwellers that still require a ferry).
Don't like the Twinkie. Hate the Twinkie. It is the second, no THIRD, most disgusting snack treat topped (or rather, bottomed) by Bit-o-Honey and those giant puffy orange "peanuts" that the cheap-asses gave you at Halloween instead of a proper candy bar or Pixie Stix. There, I've said it.
Bring it on.
Hey, Twinkie Hater, I have news for you. This country was BUILT on Twinkies! Why don't you go back to France where you came from?
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