Gross, I don't like Twinkies anyway!

I know, I know that Twinkies are completely horrible for your body, I know this but they taste so good that I just can't help myself. It is complete self destruction but I just can't help the creamy goodness

lets make a list of what foods and drinks contain "bad" or unhealthy ingredients and then a list of which foods don't. what you'll be left with is water, tofu and fruits/veggies. that doesn't cut it for me. i like a glass of wine in the evening, i like meat (there i said it), i think tofu tasts like like card board. twinkies are tasty now and again, as are ho-ho's, and those cup cakes with the squiggly white pipping on them.

I used to eat a twinkie almost every day in junior high. I'm surprised I'm still alive.

i love twinkies but probably haven't had one since college. probably because i always thought (because my high school teacher mentioned it once) that twinkies are almost non biodegradable. I've never tried it (but want to know if it's true) -- if you leave a twinkie in a warm, humid, dark area it'll take forever to mold.

If anyone tries this, report back with your findings!

Mmmmm polysorbate 60... My favorite!!

I already knew about this & haven't touched a Twinkie is YEARS! But they are good & I did like them a lot. Sigh.

*in years

BLEAH.

I've seen the looooonnnnggg list of ingredients on the side of the Twinkies box and it scared me. *LOL*

Never was a Twinkies fan....I liked the chocolate cupcake with the little white squiggle in the frosting.....Probably equally as bad for you!

oh man. i LOVE twinkies. LOVE THEM! When I turned one, my cake was a twinkie. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM. I'll read this book and then eat a whole BOX of twinkies. LOVE!

lickety-split - SO TRUE!

I hate Twinkies, yet love Chocodiles (chocolate covered Twinkies). Lucky for me they're damn near impossible to find, so I haven't had one in years. This is nasty!

I do not eat these things because I know they are bad for you and do not contain anything real in them, and because if I do allow myself to eat one, I will continue to eat them all!

I had a cat named Twinkie...that's about as close as I got to one. I did eat Tastykakes Butterscotch Krimpets a long time ago, which I'm sure have their own list of no-nos.

Gross. I've never eaten a twinkie in my life and never will.

That is disgusting. I really don;t like crap like that even though its yummy it's like I feel myself getting fatter. I LOVE chips ahoy cookies with milk.

Remember the "Twinkie Defense" when that dude killed SF Mayor Harvey Milk and blamed it on his overconsumption of Twinkies? He may have been onto something...

Giggle, that is hilarious, I didn't know about that.

I haven't eaten a twinkie in years, and I'm happy about that now.

lol @ ccsugar.
Thats disgusting, really. I ate a few when i was younger, but I haven't in ages.

I was never that into Twinkies, but Hostess cupcakes, the chocolate ones with the squiggle? Soooo good. I'm sure they're just as bad, though...so I try to avoid them.

I always thought Twinkies taste like sh*t.

I'm with BlairBear & lickety split.

ccsugar... your favorite ingredient

Reminds me of an epidsode of The Simpsons. Apu: "Silly customer, you cannot destroy a Twinkie." Hehehe.

I've never had one. I don't live in the US though.

I don't really like Twinkies much ... I may have 1 every 5 years, haha ... but this gives me more reason not to have them that often. LOL, Rosey ... I remember that episode, too! =) Good one!

Stop hating on twinkies, blah blah blah we know if you eat to many you will die, just like everything!
Why don't you tell that to the twinkie king

Shelbyville’s ‘Twinkie King’ has eaten 23,000 since 1940

Snack celebrating its 75th anniversary

Story originally ran in the March 12, 2005 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

By Suzanne Martinson

People who dismiss Twinkies as just another junk food haven't talked to 89-year-old Lewis Browning, who has eaten the golden cake with the fluffy filling most every day since 1940.

The Shelbyville, Ind., man remembers the first Twinkie he ever tasted. It was 1936, and "I bought it at a little old grocery store over the corner from my house. They cost a nickel."

Twinkies are celebrating their 75th year, and perhaps furthering their luster as an American icon is a photography show that opened yesterday in Pittsburgh.

The local chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers, the show's sponsors, sought out the Twinkie makers, rather than the other way around. Twinkies as objets de art include diverse interpretations, from a DaVinci-inspired "The Last Snack" to an X-rayed Twinkie to a famished ferret with frosting in his whiskers.

When Browning hauled milk seven days a week, his workday started at 3 a.m., so he'd assuage his hunger with a stop at one of the small stores that dotted the Indiana countryside. He'd alternate between Twinkies, which once had banana filling, and their sister snack, Hostess cupcakes, still recognized for their signature white squiggle across the chocolate frosting. His milk truck required two hands to steer.

"I had them chocolate cupcakes all over me, so I went to Twinkies altogether."

During World War II, bananas were hard to come by, so in 1945 Twinkies went to vanilla cream frosting, and Browning went along. Now that he's retired he starts each day with one. "For breakfast I have a Twinkie, a glass of milk and a banana," he said.

Twinkies were invented in 1930 by Jimmy Dewar of the Hostess Baking Co., now part of Kansas City-based Interstate Baking, which manufactures half a billion Twinkies a year. Pittsburgh's are baked in Chicago.

Sweet snacks are a $12 billion-a-year business, and half of them are eaten by adults, according to Jacques Roizen, chief marketing officer for Interstate.

Roizen, 36, grew up on croissants in his native France. "Twinkies are better for you than croissants," he said. "Croissants -- at least the good ones -- are full of butter."

There's no butter in Twinkies, and in fact its claim to promotional fame these days is "no trans fat," the latest enemy of eating right.A Twinkie has 150 calories.

The conflict between what we should eat and what we want is a recurring theme in American society, and one of the art show photos pictures a little boy holding an orange while a balloon overhead pictures a Twinkie.

Bill Kolarik, of McCandless, has heard all the Twinkie jokes. For 291/2 years, he has set out at 3:30 a.m. five days a week to deliver the snack cake of preference for many an American on the move.

"You know, like even after a nuclear war, we'll be able to find a Twinkie," he said as he restocked shelves at Reyes Sunoco on Babcock Boulevard in Ross. "Like, they're that indestructible."

Twinkies and other high-sugar treats are often considered junk food, and nutritionists worry that they can contribute to childhood obesity.

But photographer Tom Altany places these sweet treats at fame's table in his iconic work, "The Last Snack," in which the Twinkie takes center stage among other snack foods. The photograph has a long table with a rumpled silk cloth, tiny trays of Barbie food and a dozen sweet stand-ins for the diners at The Last Supper. The DaVinci take-off may raise some eyebrows, appearing as it does during Lent.

Altany, chair of the 24-photo show at Point Park University, said some have suggested his work might be sacrilegious. "After 24 years of Catholic schooling, I'm not looking to do that," he said. "I'm looking to have fun."

The Twinkie pieces bring forth the sense of home and family with the very first photograph, a pregnant Megan Moses of Coraopolis, pictured with a Twinkie atop her belly. She's the wife of a friend of Chris Rawlinson, who teaches photography at Point Park.

In this show, Twinkies really do grow on trees.

That's good news for Lewis Browning, who packed a few Twinkies in his suitcase when he had to spend two weeks in the hospital with pneumonia. Louise, his wife of 54 years, asked the doctor if it was OK if her husband ate them.

"A Twinkie never hurt anybody," the doctor said.

So, the question is, ragus, "Do you like twinkies?"

So basically, eating twinkies is a serious decision, one to be pondered carefully. We should all do some deep extensive research into the matter before we decide to keep eating these delicious golden treats!

Really disturbing. Petroleum in twinkies?

not surprising, but those things are yucky anyway.

I ate a twinkie while on deployment after the hurricanes, i swore that thing stayed in my stomach for weeks.

Mmmm, I love twinkies!

I read this book. It was actually really informative. It gives a brief history of the twinkie, and how it all started. It goes ingredient by ingredient and describes the process in which each ingredient goes through before it even goes into making a twinkie. I hate twinkies, I was just curious what actually goes into making them.

There's a bit of dialogue in "Bobby" between Demi Moore and Sharon Stone's characters regarding mens pet names for women.
Demi says men will never call a woman a "Twinkie" because our shelf life isn't as long. We are more like melting ice cream cones! lol