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Is it like a cake or chocolate bar or something?



Thanks from a curious Aussie

2006-09-30 14:11:16 · 19 answers · asked by LadyRebecca 6 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

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Golden sponge cake with creme filling, comparable in size and diameter to that of a toilet-paper core. Moist and delicious, but packed with so many preservatives it's said you can store one in a vault and 50 years later it'll still taste as fresh. You can buy them in twin-paks, or 10 to a box.

There's even a Twinkie recipe book, which you can find via Amazon-com and other dealers.

http://www.amazon.com/Twinkies-Cookbook-Inventive-Unexpected-Collection/dp/1580087566/sr=1-1/qid=1159665318/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-4847193-9204862?ie=UTF8&s=books

ADDENDUM: Hostess Co. has also periodically put out "Chocodiles", which are essentially chocolate twinkies with a hard chocolate shell. There's also Dolly Madison brand "Zingers" which are similar in size and concept to Twinkies, though the cake is a tad denser and they are flatter with stripes of frosting across the top.

Do you Aussies have anything remotely similar to this? And are you saying you don't have Twinkies Down Under? I'd assumed those sugary morsels had expanded to every corner of the world....

2006-09-30 14:12:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

I luv Aussie's!!!!!! O.K. a Twinkies is a snack cake. About 4 inches long and about 2 inches high. It has a "cream filling in it( that Cream filling is like frosting). You get 2 to a package. It's almost like "Lady fingers" except they don't taste that good. Hope I've helped.

2006-09-30 21:19:18 · answer #2 · answered by whataboutme 5 · 0 0

It is a sweet cream filled angel cake about three inches long and a couple of inches in diameter. No chocolate. Very sweet. Google Hostess Twinkies.

The other posters are right...it's more of a sponge cake rather than an angel cake.

2006-09-30 21:13:28 · answer #3 · answered by just browsin 6 · 0 0

a small cream filled cake
do to these twinkies America is the most obese country in the world oh and mcdonalds

2006-09-30 21:15:07 · answer #4 · answered by Aaron A 5 · 0 0

There is the Food and then there is Slang:

First the Food ;;

"Twinkie
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Twinkie is a "Golden Sponge Cake with a Creamy Filling" created by Hostess, and baked by Continental Baking Co., which is owned by Kansas City-based Interstate Bakeries Corporation. Twinkies measure 4" x 1" (10 cm x 2.5 cm) and are usually sold in packages of two.

In the United States, the Twinkie is commonly regarded as the quintessential junk food. Each Twinkie contains about 145 kilocalories (607 kilojoules). Five hundred million are produced each year. According to urban legend, Twinkies have a shelf life of many years."


AND THE SLANG

Slang use
Twinkie, in some communities, is commonly used as slang. One of the most common slang usages for [verification needed] the term "twinkie" might be used disparagingly as a food metaphors for race, for an Asian-American who emulates Caucasians (yellow on the outside and white on the inside), similar to the term "oreo" for African Americans. In the movie Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, the main character, Harold, is labelled a Twinkie by his Asian-American peers due to his lack of connection with his Korean origins. An alternate synonym for the use is "Banana". It is also used pejoratively to those biracial people who are half-Asian and half-White.

In some Native American circles a "twinkie" is a person who believes in sickeningly sweet and artificial version of American Indian religion(s) or claiming to be Native American for fraudulent purposes [2].

TV journalist Linda Ellerbee, in the opening paragraphs of her autobiography And So It Goes, defines a "twinkie" as the kind of blow-dried TV news reporter who doesn't fully understand the news he or she is reporting--citing herself as an example.

A "twinkie" or simply "twink" in gamer slang is a somewhat derogatory term for a young gamer who doesn't fully understand the hobby, or a more experienced gamer whose lack of understanding is presumed to be willful. "Twinking" is a term used in many role-playing games referring to the player's use of the rules to create the most effective character possible through in-game rules, (similar to min-maxing), especially when skills or abilities selected contradict the character's personality, if it is such a game where depth of character is an issue. In the former sense it is less pejorative than munchkin but more pejorative in the latter sense (since the more experienced gamer ostensibly should know better). Another, equal known use of the term describes a high-level character in an RPG (typically an MMORPG) who has a low-level, alternate character equipped exclusively from the high-level character's cash and/or equipment reserves.

A "twinkie" is also used in Western Canadian street youth communities to describe a member of an affluent or otherwise stable home environment yet chooses to live the street kid lifestyle without necessity. It could be argued that the slang pejorative "mark" would be the same."





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gay_slang_words_and_phrases#T

"Twink, twinky, twinkie
A young or young-looking man or boy; especially one is slender, clean cut and without facial or body hair. Also slang for penis. "

2006-09-30 21:17:12 · answer #5 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 1 0

A Twinkie is made of yellow cake-like substance with a white, creamy filling inside which is the consistency of whipped cream. They come individually wrapped -- and the people who eat them are addicted to them, I think. I don't like them because the list of ingredients is rather scary (to me).

2006-09-30 21:15:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It's sponge cake, with a vanilla cream filling. It isn't chocolate, it's sort of like a yellow cake, but a slightly different consistency. For really yummy things, look for "zingers". They are a little smaller, but still cream filled, with frosting. Yum yum.

2006-09-30 21:14:09 · answer #7 · answered by Esther 7 · 0 0

Its a yellow cake like thing with white cream filling in the middle.. very bad for u but yet sooo good!!!

2006-09-30 21:13:11 · answer #8 · answered by thisgurliscrazey 2 · 0 0

It's a muffin with a chocolate or iced topping with lots of preservatives.

Google "Twinkie Defense" if you really want a good laugh.

2006-09-30 21:14:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It's a wrapped piece of yellow sponge cake with a white creme filling. They're pretty good if you're into really sugary treats.

2006-09-30 21:12:58 · answer #10 · answered by Lanani 6 · 0 0

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