what is a twinky?

Question

i hear it in films alll the time, is it a cake??

Answer 1

I'm sure your familiar with the snack cake. Another use of the word twinky is to describe a young and desirable person. That's probably the meaning of the word you heard in the movies.

Answer 2

Twinkie

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 calories (607 kilojoules). Five hundred million are produced each year.

Answer 3

Twinkies all have different interests, but there is one trait that they all have in common: an auditory impairment that makes them incapable of hearing or comprehending the word, "No!" This impairment is particularly prominent when a person of lower social class, especially Native Americans, are uttering the word. Some Twinkies have been known to remain completely oblivious to the fact that an entire Nation, the Lakota, have declared War on them. Cat owners may be able to relate to this phenomenon. A cat can hear a can opener three blocks away, but its auditory canals cannot pick up the word, "No!" while engaged in climbing the curtains. The feline brain is approximately the size of a walnut, so one can deduce that Twinkies probably posses brains of comparable size.

Another common trait is a sense of entitlement. Twinkies are often heard preaching about how everyone is entitled to Native American Spirituality. However, no one can have their graphics. It's a subtle distinction that often proves hard to grasp.

Twinkies always stick together. Whenever one Twinkie is exposed, all the other Twinkies rush to its defense with crocodile tears. They make elegant testimonials as to the Twinkies "good intentions" and its kind and "caring voice." It's a kind of professional courtesy among thieves. Good intentions are the New Age equivalent of a "Get out of jail free card". They are an all purpose excuse for any type of exploitation or charlatanism.

A fool and his money are soon parted. The Twinkie counts on this. Just like McDonalds, they know how to please the masses. They know how to mix just the right combinations of Christianity, psycho-babble, Astrology, re-incarnation, Wicca, crystal healing, Tarot card reading and astro-projection to appeal to the general public, desparate for spiritual enlightenment, but not really committed to doing anything that requires too much time or effort, especially on week-ends.

Answer 4

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 calories (607 kilojoules). Five hundred million are produced each year.
How Twinkies are made
Ingredients

Enriched Wheat Flour - enriched with ferrous sulphate (iron)
B vitamins:
Niacin
Thiamine mononitrate [B1]
Riboflavin [B12] and
Folic acid
Sugar
Corn syrup
Water
High fructose corn syrup
Vegetable and/or animal shortening containing one or more of
Partially hydrogenated soybean
cottonseed or Canola oil
lard and
beef fat
Dextrose
Whole eggs
Contains 2% or less of:
Modified corn starch
Cellulose gum
Whey
Leavenings:
Sodium acid pyrophosphate
Baking soda
Monocalcium phosphate
Salt
Cornstarch
Corn flour
Corn syrup solids
Mono and diglycerides
Soy lecithin
Polysorbate 60
Dextrin
Calcium caseinate
Sodium stearol lactylate
Wheat gluten
calcium sulfate
Natural and artificial flavors:
Caramel color
Sorbic acid (to retain freshness)
Color added (yellow 5, red 40)


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.

Answer 5

Twinkies are twin-packed golden snack cakes made by Hostess, shaped like small logs, and filled with a light sugary whipped cream.

Pics on the site.

Answer 6

It is a yellow cake with a cream center and it has a spongy consistency, It is made by hostess and is shaped kinda like a short fat hotdog. Some say that if the entire world were destroyed twinkies(b/c of all the preservatives) and roaches would be all that were left!

Answer 7

Id never herd of a twinky before I got this sent to me by email
A little girl came into the barber shop with her dad,
She stands next to the barber chair, while her dad gets his hair cut eating a snack cake.
The barber says to her sweetheart your gonna get hair on your twinky
She says yes I know and and I'm gonna get boobies too

Answer 8

It is a little cake...if thats what u wanna call it.It has cream filling on the inside.A Twinkie is a "Golden Sponge Cake with a Creamy Filling" created by Hostess.
http://www.twinkies.com/twinkies.asp

Answer 9

Twinky is the name of a film from 1970's. It starred Susan George and Charles Bronson. I have it on dvd and it's a good film.
www.movie-mail.co.uk

Answer 10

Here ya go, Sparky!

http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/twinkie.htm

The history of the Twinkie from it's birth in 1933!

Enjoy!