Twinkie lovers, get ready to go bananas.
The sweet treat known for its golden spongy cake and its creamy vanilla center is returning to its roots with banana-creme filling — the flavor that first made the snack a hit with sweet-toothed people more than 70 years ago.
Old-timers may remember the taste from the pre-World War II years. From 1930, when the Twinkie was first invented, to the 1940s, Twinkies were filled solely with banana creme. But a banana shortage during the war forced Hostess bakers to replace it with the vanilla flavor.
Hostess sells more than half a billion Twinkies each year. Which gives you an idea of how truly self-destructive our species has become.
Odd, Twinkies have always tasted faintly of banana to me anyway…
I’ve never had a Twinkie and I’m not going to start now. I could end up in Twinkies Anonymous.
I must now tune in to cable news so I can watch the pundits scream that Leebrals are forcing Hostess to create a healthy Twinkie.
“Next on The Factor. . .Hollywood elitist veganazis want to put tofu in your Ding Dong!”
b-b-banana? that sounds disgusting.
3. As opposed to putting your Ding Dong in tofu.
I prefer the prepackaged cup cakes to Twinkies.
Oil soaked sugary bread filled with sweetened shortening..
I have got to look at twinkies to see how much trans-fat is in one of those bad boys. I bet it is out of this world.
Haven’t had one in years.
Ah the Twinkie, like Wonder, a symbol of caucasian, middle-class consumerism.
Both products with as much nutrition as a pillow case and about as much taste as well. Not even banana will save it.
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Even Rice University has tested Twinkies, including the Turing Test. T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. stands for Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations. Cheese, now they’ll have to start over. 🙂
http://www.twinkiesproject.com/
I thought Twinkies were made to feed people after civilization collapsed. That and canned soup since they would last forever.
Bubba, that was really hilarious. I read the whole thing. I guess I’m easily entertained.
“Lois, everyone knows there are only two things that can survive a nuclear holocaust — cockroaches and Twinkies. And there’s a Twinkie factory in Natick”
This is why the world needs twinkies.
T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. stands for Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations.
Dang, beat me to it.
and we also lost Mr. Wizard?
aren’t these signs of the Apocalypse?
J/P=?
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I doubt Twinkies will be a significant factor in the demise of Humanity.
BubbaRay: Their methology is inconsistant and their hostility to peer review unprofessional.
#17, milo, yes, it’s certainly too bad they didn’t consult with me and my 4th grade Science Fair project where I managed to compress a Twinkie into a volume of a little over 1/4 cup (about 62 ml.) Mom wasn’t really happy with my methods using hammer, dowels and wooden disks in her glass kitchenware. 🙂
#10…BubbaRay….after much thought (and a twinkie), I came to the conclusion that someone’s parents should demand their money back from Rice!!! 🙂
But, I guess we should be glad they weren’t doing something far more harmful…..like drinking beer and chasing co-eds!!
After going to the CNN story, I’m dumbfounded by the fact that they sell half a BILLION of the little things a year. But as someone above said…I always thought they tasted like banana anyway.
When growing up, I was never allowed store bought cakes and stuff. Had my first Twinkie when I was 17, my best friend smuggled it into my house. I wasn’t all that impressed, but it wasn’t bad. I won’t tell what my favorite Hostess cake treat is, a person would have to have a death wish to say the name of them in this blog. 🙂
Do they sell a half billion Twinkies or half billion packages (two Twinkies to a package)? The difference means we are only getting half as fat one way vs the other. Inquiring stomaches want to know.
#21, Uncle Dave, just for fun I looked that up and here’s your answer:
“There are 17 Hostess bakeries across the countries cranking out 500 million Twinkies every year. It takes 40,000 miles of plastic wrap a year to package them**. At 150 Calories apiece, all those Twinkies have the energy equivalent to nearly 51,500 barrels of crude oil.
If you want to know, that comes out to be about 1,000 Twinkies a minute or 16 a second.”
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/twinkies-fun-facts/
** That’s enough plastic wrap to go almost twice around the Earth each year!
The banana twinkies are great, they aren’t available everywhere, but you can always get them online: Banana Twinkies