[HPFGU-OTChatter] Twinkies & also the REAL biscuit question

[Jen Faulkner]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Amy Z wrote:

> > OK, I'm taking Twinkies, Bisquick, Reeses Cups to Neil.
> Arggghhh...no, Neil, don't eat the Twinkies!  Twinkies, I am
> convinced, are the Stage One Invasion Force in the US plot to take
> over the world.  Intelligent people begin to eat them and the next
> thing you know, the preservatives have pickled their brains and they
> start to listen to muzak voluntarily.  Soon they come to think that
> Three's Company is funny.  After that, we roll in the tanks and
> formerly independent European populations just smile vacantly and say,
> "Dja bring any more of them Twinkies?"

*snerk* Ah, Twinkies...  the food of the gods *g* Well, they have just
about an eternal shelf life, at any rate.  :)  The icky thing about
Twinkies, so rumor has it, is that they're not actually baked at all,
but are produced in some sort of chemical reaction.  (The skeptic in me
doubts, but really...  they are exceedingly unnatural.)  And then
there's the odd fascination people seem to have with trying to destroy
them...  there seems to be an entire subgenre of webpages devoted to the
destruction of Twinkies in microwaves, open flames, water, dropping them
off buildings...  Some people have too much free time, I think. *g*

A small Hostess snack-cake related anecdote:  My first year of college,
my Greek 101 class was meeting in the cafe in the student center.  The
teacher, like many of us, had purchased food beforehand.  Now, what
possessed her to do this, I'm not quite sure, but she'd bought a package
of Hostess Snowballs -- the round chocolate cakes with cream filling, a
marshmallow coating, and coconut shavings.  Well, she didn't want them
-- so she offered them to us.  No one was really keen on eating the
things (they're bright pink, did I mention?), and it wasn't long before
someone got the bright idea of denuding one of its marshmallow coating.  
Indeed, it is removable and can basically be peeled off -- it's about
half an inch thick and soon it lay there, helpless, a huge slab o'
marshmallow, covered with pink coconut.  There sat the chocolate cake
part, mostly spherical and entirely without covering, and the whole
effect was just, well, obscene... (Too old to play with
food?  Nah... *g*)

--jen :)

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