They have made a comeback which Hostess* is touting as the sweetest in the world.\u00a0 Saved from the brink of extinction – Twinkies \u00a0are baaaaAAAACK!<\/p>\n
But should they be?!?<\/p>\n
I walked into Wal-Mart the other day & there was a huge stand of them RIGHT THERE.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thinking my children had never had them and it might be a fun novelty to try,\u00a0I bought a box.\u00a0 [I know.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 I’m an\u00a0End-cap Marketers dream-come-true<\/em>.]<\/p>\n When I got home, it turned out the kids HAVE\u00a0had them before.\u00a0 [When? \u00a0How?? \u00a0NEVER\u00a0on my watch – that’s for dang sure<\/em>!]\u00a0 And they LOVE them!!!<\/p>\n Really, what’s NOT to love?? \u00a0A yellow, cream-filled sponge cake that tastes like….a sponge, fresh out of the package-which-has-kept-it-oddly-moist-until-now.\u00a0 In fact, that’s how they make Twinkies.\u00a0\u00a0They take a fresh sponge, remove the green scrubber top, form the remaining yellow-ness into a shape that does not naturally occur in nature, and fill it with sweetened\u00a0shortening.<\/p>\n Yes. \u00a0This is absolutely how they make Twinkies.<\/p>\n I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!!<\/p>\n They also include a fun\u2026er\u2026ingredient called sodium acid pyrophosphate which has the added benefit of making your tongue tingle (burn?\u00a0 itch??) in an uncomfortable way when you eat a Twinkie.<\/p>\n In fact, with all the many\u00a0other fun\u2026er\u2026ingredients they contain, Twinkies can actually stay fresh long after a nuclear holocaust has occurred (take note, Doomsday Preppers.\u00a0 You’ll want these for your dessert stash).\u00a0 \u00a0And if you\u2019re lost in the woods, you can start a fire with them.\u00a0 [I know my Latin.\u00a0 And \u2018pyro\u2019 – as in sodium acid PYROphosphate \u2013 is derived from the word \u2018pyromaniacs\u2019 who are people who like to start fires when they’re lost in the woods<\/em>.]<\/p>\n In summation, Twinkies are a shining example of American know-how and ingenuity; Free market economics at its best.\u00a0 They are a nutritious, tasty treat for people of all ages and walks of life.<\/p>\n Well.\u00a0 Perfect for everyone except Vegetarians, that is.\u00a0\u00a0Because Twinkies contain beef fat.\u00a0 Who would have guessed?!<\/p>\n Yum** – please pass me another!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *As a side note, does anyone\u00a0else think \u2018Hostess\u2019 is a dumb, outdated name for a company?!?\u00a0 It also starts to sound weird if you say it too many times in a row.<\/p>\n **When I say “Yum!” I really mean, “Why does my tongue burn and itch – and why are the taste buds actually JUMPING out of my mouth?!?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They have made a comeback which Hostess* is touting as the sweetest in the world.\u00a0 Saved from the brink of extinction – Twinkies \u00a0are baaaaAAAACK! But should they be?!? I walked into Wal-Mart the other day & there was a huge stand of them RIGHT THERE.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thinking my children had never had them and it might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}