I've heard it on a few American films & wondered what one was (I'm from the UK.) xxx
2007-04-06 10:19:54 · 16 answers · asked by Joanne W 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
here is the home make version if you want to try and make them yourself. yellow cake for Twinkies (for Blondie's add yellow frosting) chocolate for Ho-Ho's and add dip in fug frosting. If you want to make filled treats vs sandwich's make cup cakes and pipe filling with a bag or gun(piping guns are easier in my eyes but with piping bags you have more control )
http://www.recipezaar.com/110009
2007-04-06 10:40:50 · answer #1 · answered by lady_jane_az 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, I've not heard them referred to as bars, but when I last saw them, Twinkies were little oblong cakes with a cream filling inside. They are essentially all sugar, which is why they are a favorite (at least as a cliche) among sugar junkies.
Twinkies came to notice in the late 1970s, when a man who had been on the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco County, Dan White, got all sugared up and went and shot mayor Moscone and another member of the Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk. This was especially important because Milk was openly gay.
When Dan White came to trial, his lawyer successfully argued for a diminished capacity defense, based on his hypoglycemia and having had a lunch consisting mostly of Twinkies. Hence the term "The Twinkie Defense."
2007-04-07 07:05:55 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A Twinkie is a children's dessert. With all the sugar hype, it isn't such a healthy treat. We loved these as children, and they were made better. It is a light yellow cake, with a cream filling, usually come two in a package. I can barely eat a Twinkie now, it tastes so different. Little Debbie treats are a favorite, especially anything with peanut butter.
2007-04-06 17:33:49 · answer #3 · answered by Marissa Di 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Twinkies are made by Hostess.
It is a yellow sponge cake with white cream inside. It's about 3-4 inches long and yeah, I guess the shape is rather turd like as another answerer says.
Go here for a picture and more info, if you want :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie
2007-04-06 17:24:16 · answer #4 · answered by BlueSea 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
its like a small spongy cake bar with creamy icing type stuff in the middle from what i can remember when i lived there.
I think thats right. I prefered reeses pieces peanut butter cups and also their cookies and cream choc bars
2007-04-06 19:30:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ooo is that like in the grease film??
i heard it in scrubs other night too and wondered!
i think its a sweet bread!
Ask on yahoo.com rather uk and ireland one - an american definately anwer!
2007-04-06 17:25:31 · answer #6 · answered by dollymixture 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely disgusting.
Bought my girlfriend some 'cos she'd heard of them in films, i tried one, could barely finish it.
Artificial cream in artificial sponge,
Be afraid, be very afraid
2007-04-07 06:19:51 · answer #7 · answered by renegade 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's kind of a yellow spongy cake in the shape of a bar with white cream in it...lots of people like them...i think their gross.
2007-04-06 17:28:46 · answer #8 · answered by lala 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fake Cream wrapped in a spongey like bar!! Looks like a sponge turd!!!
2007-04-06 17:23:10 · answer #9 · answered by Fluke 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They are only sold in the US they are full of sugar of my boyfriend loves them because they are so sweet
It's like a swiss roll full of cream (that is the closest I can describe it)
2007-04-06 17:32:12 · answer #10 · answered by toon_tigger 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋