Posted on 11/19/2012 11:46:21 AM PST by all the best
Oh how everyone (of a certain class and income) makes fun of the Twinkie, the ultimate symbol of modern food decadence and phoniness. I don’t get it. Have the critics ever tried one? They are so appealing and delicious: light, spongy, sweet, and creamy, all in a tiny package. The news that the parent company Hostess was going out of business caused a huge run on Twinkies in my own community. Every store had an empty space where they should have been. The preppers were right: we should have stocked up for emergencies like this.
Meanwhile, the haters have been generating lies about Twinkies ever since food puritanism took over elite culture. Therefore, the urban myths are legion. You know them all. It can stand up to a nuclear holocaust. It is made entirely of artificial ingredients, the ultimate frankenfood. It is responsible for the obesity epidemic. And so on.
So don’t you just know that plenty of cultural snobs and anti-market ideologues were experiencing serious schadenfreude at the news that labor unions have strangled Hostess? They are probably thrilled to kick this snake out of the American garden of Eden they are trying to create, and cast the whole line of products to the Mexican outer darkness.
It pains me. It really does. More than half a billion Twinkies are sold every year. They bring incredible joy to multitudes who don’t happen to live next to an old-world French pastry shop. The market has been bringing this treat to the masses for 70 glorious years, and all that the cultural elite can do is sneer.
Let’s take just a moment to give the Twinkie a bit of respect, as a symbol of the complex economic structures of our time that cannot be replicated by you, me, or any government..
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I have not eaten a Twinkie since the mid-1970’s when my mother got on a health food kick and forceably broke all of our sweet tooths.
But I will defend to the death your right to flip Moochelle Obama the bird and consume one.
It has been many years since I had a Twinkie as well. As a VERY young child (4 to 5 years old) I can still remember being at one of my mom’s friend’s house where they would watch me once in awhile. After lunch the wife would open a pack of Twinkies and I would get one and her husband (Mr, Brown, smelled of pipe smoke) would have the other.
I loved it when I got to go there! Mom never spent money on that stuff.
Wife is always looking out for me. Have a freezer full, Grandsons also know that, so who knows how long. Still some fear there of Gramps , so will get my share.
My mother was a complete health nut so I never got a Twinkie as a kid. But every child in my school seemed to have a Twinkie in his lunchbox (after a lunch of Flutternutter!) All these kids were skinny as hell and - probably - as alive and healthy as I am.
You’re rich!
“Twinkies selling for five hundred dollars on eBay”
http://www.examiner.com/article/twinkies-selling-for-five-hundred-dollars-on-ebay
Nothing but TastyKakes on the shelves this morning at Giant and Weis Markets, around here. I haven’t had a Twinkie in 50yrs; should have seen this coming last week, and bought 2-3 pallets of ‘em, then. Darn.
Nah only 30, checked it out. lol
Egon: “Well, let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of interest in Hostess products. Based on this morning’s sample, it would be a Twinkie... thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.”
Winston: “That’s a big twinkie.”
I am proud to say that in early October, at a little local Farmers Fair, I splurged and enjoyed an ULTIMATE TWINKIE...A deep-fried one. It was very good. Not something one should indulge in very often, but everyone should try at least once, just to be a “well-rounded” individual. ;oD
Nice take-off on “I, Pencil.”
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