What are Twinkies???

Answer 1

I just asked my fella and he goin show me later yaall.

Answer 2

Twinkies. Twinkies are cream-filled sponge cakes shaped like ladyfingers which pack 160 calories per cake. Yet for all their nutritional drawbacks Twinkies are a hugely popular treat in the USA, with 500 million of these confections baked each year.

Because these cellophane-wrapped snack cakes are always to be found on the shelves at supermarkets and corner stores and always appear to feel fresh and spongy to the touch, a long-lived myth has sprung up to account for the continual presence of seemingly always-fresh Twinkies. According to lore, Twinkies have multi-year shelf lives and remain edible for decades; this incredible longevity, rumor says, is due to the fact that Twinkies are not actually food but rather some strange type of artificial, manufactured item shaped and flavored to resemble a cake-like offering.

Through the years many of our readers have asked us about this baked product. Each had heard a version of the basic Twinkies legend about unbelievable shelf life brought about through some form of artificial production, either in the ingredients or the manufacturing process used. We've seen claims that Twinkies:


Remain edible for anywhere between fifty and one hundred years.

Have a lengthy shelf life, variously expressed as five, seven, or forty years, or "longer than the cellophane they're wrapped in."

Aren't baked, the sponge cake instead being "a pure chemical reaction" involving something that "foams up"; the deception is made complete by coloring the confection's bottoms brown to make it appear that they've been baked.

Contain a chemical used in embalming fluid.
As always, the truth is far less exciting than the lore.

Twinkies were created in 1930 as ladyfinger-shaped spongecakes enrobing a banana filling produced at the Hostess bakery in Schiller Park, Illinois. (Hostess is now owned by Kansas City-based Interstate Bakeries Corp.) The product's name was inspired by a billboard in St. Louis advertising Twinkle Toe Shoes. When the world's banana trade ground to a halt during World War II (this wasn't the first time war disrupted the banana trade — the popular ditty "Yes, We Have No Bananas" came out of World War I because of similar circumstances), Hostess substituted a vanilla cream filling not dissimilar to cake frosting.

Twinkies have a shelf life of twenty-five days, not seven years, and certainly not fifty years. Even so, twenty-five days is an unusually long time for a baked product to stay fresh. The secret to Twinkies' longevity is their lack of dairy ingredients — because dairy products are not part of the formula, Twinkies spoil much more slowly than other bakery items.

After the baking process of the sponge cake portion is completed, cream filling is injected into each Twinkie through three holes in its top (brown) side; the product is then flipped before packaging, turning its bottom into its top. Hostess estimates it uses eight million pounds of sugar, seven million pounds of flour, and one million eggs to produce the 500 million Twinkies baked every year.

Twinkies gained notoriety in American jurisprudence in 1979 when the media widely misreported the claim that Dan White, on trial for shooting San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk, asserted that his consumption of junk foods such as Twinkies "had left him with diminished capacity for reason."

According to Hostess, it takes forty-five seconds to explode a Twinkie in a microwave.

Barbara "and far less than forty-five for your mother to pitch a fit over it" Mikkelson

Answer 3

Twinkys are doughnut type fingers with cream inside they can also contain sugar on the outside and they are excellent!!!
buy them in london at a shop cyber candy.
look them up
they are well worth a try
xxx

Answer 4

my twinkies are my toes< but thats not the answer your looking 4, im sure....i jus got 2 points tho cheers luv

Answer 5

A 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.

The Twinkie was invented on April 6, 1930 by bakery manager James Dewar, making thrifty use of shortcake pans that were usually only used during the strawberry season. Twinkies originally contained a banana cream filling, but this was replaced with a vanilla cream filling during a banana shortage caused by the outbreak of World War II. [1]

Though Continental Foods has never revealed how Twinkies are made, most people believe that they are baked, because the bottoms look brown. The Washington Post reported on April 15, 2005 that "the cakes are baked for 10 minutes, then the cream filling is injected through three holes in the top, which is browned from baking. The cake is flipped before packaging, so the rounded yellow bottom becomes the top." Hostess was the implied source of this information.

According to urban legend, Twinkies have a shelf life of many years. While some urban myth websites have concluded this is false[1], some Twinkies have been kept since 1988 which show no signs of deterioration. There's an American saying that says, "You could leave a Twinkie on a wooden bench and a hundred years later the bench would be gone but the Twinkie would still be there."

According to the Hostess website, Christopher Sell invented the "fried twinkie" at the ChipShop, his restaurant in Brooklyn, New York. It was described by the New York Times in this way: "Something magical occurs when the pastry hits the hot oil. The creamy white vegetable shortening filling liquefies, impregnating the sponge cake with its luscious vanilla flavor. . . The cake itself softens and warms, nearly melting, contrasting with the crisp, deep-fried crust in a buttery and suave way. The shop adds its own ruby-hued berry sauce, which provides a bit of tart sophistication."

By 2002, the Arkansas State Fair had introduced the fried Twinkie to great popular acclaim, and the notion spread to other state fairs across the U.S., as well as some establishments that specialize in fried delicacies.

The Minnesota Twins are nicknamed the "Twinkies" by fans, a joking reference to the team's tradition of ineptitude dating back to their days as the Washington Senators. During the seventh-inning stretch rendition of Take Me Out to the Ball Game, it is traditional in the Metrodome, the Twins' home park, to replace "the home team" with "the Twinkies".
The twinkie defense is a derogatory term for a criminal defendant's claim that some unusual factor (such as allergies, coffee, nicotine, or sugar) diminished the defendant's responsibility for the alleged crime. The term arose from the trial of Dan White, who was convicted in the fatal shootings of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk, but the "Twinkie defense" was in reality only a minor and insignificant element of the defense case. (Compare Chewbacca Defense.)

Twinkie has acquired several slang meanings.

In gay slang, "Twinkie" is commonly used to describe an attractive young or young-looking male, slender and slightly muscled, with little or no body hair. It is the opposite of a "bear".

The term "twinkie" might be used disparagingly as a metaphor 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, his Protestant faith (though Protestant Christianity is widespread in Korea), and his political support for the Republican Party. An alternate synonym for the use is "Banana". It is also pejoratively applied 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 apparent 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. When applied to inexperienced gamers it is less pejorative than munchkin (role-playing games), but can be very insulting when directed at experienced gamers, who ought to know how to avoid newbie pitfalls. 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. The term "mark" is often used in the same way.

Answer 6

A sponge cake with white cream filling.
Very sweet, very good. Sold in packages of 2.
You'll have to try them some day.

Answer 7

they're american. they are about 3 inches long and 1/2 inch thick, log shaped sponge cake with a really sickly white butter icing kind of filling. they're not that nice. you can buy them off of ebay, but you'll be paying about £5 for them

Answer 8

Sponge cake tube with cream filling. You get them now in chocolate, strawberry and banana flavour as well as plain cream. South Africa that is.

Answer 9

Sponge cakes with a deep cream filling, very nice too.

Answer 10

Very very fattening little sponge cakes with a creme filling in the middle.

Answer 11

Twinkies are twinkies...delicious...good....duh
And fattening bua!!!