What is a 'TWINKIE"?

Answer 1

This is a delicious little packaged cake that has cream filling inside. They are extremely unhealthy. Twinkies can also be a work referring to a mans body part.

Answer 2

I had my first twinkie at age 13. Everyone around me thought I was from another country. Well, I wasn't but my parents were and they could see making their kids eat something preserved and with so much sugar. I grew up eating fruits and good home cooking.

Twinkies are by Hostess and are a spongy cake with a creamy filling. If I am to indulge in decadence like a Hostess cake, I prefer Zingers Vanilla flavored. Similar to twinkies but more tasty.

Answer 3

Made by Hostess, one of their earliest desserts in a package, goes back as far as I can remember, so we are talking early 50's. It is a sort of well all I can say phallic styled cupcake (sorry that's the best description I can really come up with). Anyway it is pure sugar. It is sort of yellow cake on the outside and filled with a white cream. It is the sweetest cake product out there. In San Francisco there was a killing where the killer claimed he went on a killing spree due to too much sugar in his system from eating too much sugar from Twinkies.

Answer 4

A twinkie is a yellow vanilla cake filled with a vanilla cream, they are about 2 inches round and about 5 inches long, and are the best things ever.

Answer 5

Depends on if you're talking about people or if you're talking about the snack. If it's the snack then it's a little cake filled with cream and they are so good. Then if it's people a twinkie would be where they look alike. example: if you and your friend have the same shirt on then you would say hey we are twinkies today.

Answer 6

A Twinkie is a "Golden Sponge Cake with 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, though they can be sold in packages of three.

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.[1]

Twinkie the Kid is the advertising mascot for Twinkies and can be found on packaging and related merchandise.

Twinkie production

Ingredients

* Enriched Wheat Flour - enriched with ferrous sulphate (iron)
* B vitamins:
o Niacin
o Thiamine mononitrate [B1]
o Riboflavin [B2] and
o Folic acid
* Sugar
* Corn syrup
* Water
* High fructose corn syrup
* Vegetable and/or animal shortening containing one or more of
o Partially hydrogenated soybean
o cottonseed or Canola oil
o lard and
o beef fat
* Dextrose
* Whole eggs
* Contains 2% or less of:
o Modified corn starch
o Cellulose gum
o Whey
o Leavenings:
+ Sodium acid pyrophosphate
+ Baking soda
+ Monocalcium phosphate
o Salt
o Cornstarch
o Corn flour
o Corn syrup solids
o Mono and diglycerides
o Soy lecithin
o Polysorbate 60
o Calcium caseinate
o Sodium stearoyl lactylate
o Wheat gluten
o calcium sulfate
o 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 used only 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. [2]

In June of 2007 Hostess announced the return of the banana-creme Twinkie. In the past the banana flavored version was offered as a limited-time promotion. Due in part to sales increasing by 20% when the banana version was offered, the banana Twinkie will now be produced permanently. [3]

Continental Foods admitted on a 2006 episode of television's "How it's Made" that twinkies are, in fact baked ending years of speculation. The Washington Post reported on April 13, 2005 that "the cakes are baked for 10 minutes, then the creme 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.[4] A 2007 book, Twinkie, Deconstructed [5] examines where all the ingredients come from and how they are made.



According to urban legend, Twinkies have a shelf life of many years. While some urban myth websites have concluded this is false,[1] the photograph shows Twinkies which have been kept since 1998 with no signs of deterioration. In one small classroom experiment at George Stevens Academy, a single Twinkie, removed from all packaging, did not spoil for 30 years, although it became "rather brittle".[6] Another urban myth is that the cream inside of the twinkies ferments into an alcoholic beverage after eight years. This was also shown on the FOX TV show, The Simpsons. Also, on the FOX show Family Guy, after a nuclear holocaust, the only thing that survived was a twinkie factory.

Fried twinkies

According to the Hostess website, Christopher Sell invented the "fried Twinkie" at the Chip Shop, 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.

Twinkies in popular culture

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.)

Answer 7

A small golden-colored cake with a white cream filling. It is made by Hostess and usually comes in packs of two. They are high in sugar and fat. I am almost POSITIVE they have no nutritional value whatsoever. (And they take TEN YEARS to decompose in landfills and probably longer under your bed...)
YUM! =D

Answer 8

Well
I followed this online course http://www.goobypls.com/r/rd.asp?gid=563 because I wanted to learn some self-defence tecniques to protect me and my family against thiefs.

Answer 9

They are little American cakes with vanilla icing stuff inside. Never had one, am on a diet.

Answer 10

almost like angel food cake with whipped cream inside