Now that Hostess is shutting down, there’s a mad rush for Twinkies- and you can’t find them!
At least we know who snagged them all.
Photo by Paul B- get more of Trinket here.
Max, Can Ya Spare A Twinkie?
November 17, 2012 By
Now that Hostess is shutting down, there’s a mad rush for Twinkies- and you can’t find them!
At least we know who snagged them all.
Photo by Paul B- get more of Trinket here.
aw ta HECK w/ tha Twinkies — them’s sum EARSES!!!
who needs a satellite dish???
them’s some earses indeed!
I hope the Mod Lounge stocked up in preparation for the crisis.
Crisis? Should I panic? *getting ready to panic*
Don’t worry I have several cans of Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup to dunk the twinkies in. The combination of the two solves all crises and soothes panic attacks. Hmmm, anyone see a can opener??!!!
@ Theresa: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand….. GO!!!
what was it you did the other week? running around your house,
flailing your arms, or something???
Yes, just that. Dignity, always dignity.
Theresa, the following exists. However for some malevolent reason, when its pic comes up, immediately something inexplicable computer-y makes it cover up with a facebook login screen that covers it up. I hate weird uncooperative computer-y things. That being said,
Dignity always dignity | Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dignity-always-dignity/110027559019914
Dignity always dignity. gene kelly’s famous line
Hee!
It did indeed cover up the divine Kelly countenance and (unseen) dancing bod, but I suffered for the sake of my art…. or whatever you call it when you come over all peculiar and have to lie on the fainting couch… as I do when watching one of his fillums.
I don’t think I ever had a Twinkie. I know what they are but thy never appealed to me I’m a chocolate girl all the way.
um, well….but ….am I not correct in presuming,
that there is some Caucasian stock in your blood????
*mischevious*
hey firdie , how are you doing ?
hiya bob!! Thanks fer askingk!!
Things here am …. a bit “perplexing”. The doctor and I seem to be seeing a lot of ea. other, lately ….not yet sure what is in the bloodwork….guess I’ll have further data *someday*
*twiddles thumbs and looks nervously at the doctor*
but otherwise grooviness exists.
GET THIS!! Mamacita turned the BIG 82 yrs young, earlier this week!!!
Strong as an ox. Not much stamina, but boy is she hard to slow down.
How ’boutchew??
I’m okay ! Just recuperating from Sandy –powers back on but the back yard is still a mess ! Gonna need some help getting those branches out of the yard ! nice talking to you again !
you too
I hope nobody was standing near any of those tree limbs.
‘Bout three years ago, several storms in a particular three-week spell, ended up
causing about five different (either trees or huge tree limbs) to all come crashing
down FROM THE VARIOUS neighbors’ yards (they are of course not the kind who bother with preventative pruning, etc in the earlier months) into my
mom’s backyard. She has a house at the bottom of a cul-de-sac/ neighbors on
three sides of the backyard.
She spent OVER $5000 that year JUST in paying separate insurance DEDUCTIBLE expenses, cleaning up all that junk from HER YARD b/c the insurance interpreted the weather/ timing as separate incidents each.
GAH
PS: the saddest part of this story??? I don’t even OWN $5000 cash, never mind being able to pay a BILL of that size.
so I def. FEEL YER PAIN!!! GO TEAM GO
HEY GIGI ! Have you ever heard of ringdings or yodells ? Or Maybe swiss rolls ? YUUUMMMMYYYYY !!! I’M SURE GONNA MISS THOSE HOSTESS CAKES !!!
R.I.P. hostess cakes !!!
I don’t remember Ringdings or Yodells from my summers as a kid in the U.S. we do have Swiss rolls in Canada but not made by Hostess.
I think I had tried a Twinkie when I was a kid, but all I can remember it was a little dry. Maybe it was an old one.
I should add that I am in Canada and I have found that the store bought pastries not to be as good as the bakery ones.
I should also add that a friend of my brother, Seann, and his friend, Charlie, loves Smarties (which are like M&M but smaller) but can’t find any in the U.S. so whenever Seann and Charlie go visit her they bring her Smarties
I confess I have no idea what a Twinkie is. it has a “Carry On, oooh Matron” sound to it.
We have always had Smarties (as well as M&Ms now). The blue ones are highly prized.
I haven’t had a Twinkie since I was a kid, but I recall being especially fond of sticking my finger all the way down the centre of them and licking off the icing….
I’m gonna miss the Ho-Hos. Chocolate is a food group!!
(Why, yes, Fird, I be of European descent…..)
Never had a Twinkie. Gigi is right, chocolate is
the only way. Saffron, there’s still Tastykake, right?
Especially the chocolate cupcakes, on which I was
raised. Yum.
[Phred's mom,
at the very last few seconds you'll see why I linked this here]
Did the flying fella mistake the burger for
a Twinkie? Or was that you , Firdie, balancing
the tray in the last shot? Absconding with the
goodies. Btw, Fird, hope all goes well with you…
not knowing what gives is the pits indeed.
thx phred’s mom
(re. the video: at the very end, they sing “YYYYUUUUUMMMMMMMM”,
echoing both Bob Drummond and you )
Fird, that explains it…I had the sound down
becuz my partner was reading. Yum, indeed.
Hang in there.
OH
the sound wuz the whole PERNT!!!
Phew, good to know I’m not the only one
B-)
I’ve never had one either, and really have no desire whatsoever to try one.
You’re not missing anything. Really.
Even read the article attached to it.
Y’know, Max Stubbular kind of looks like a Twinkie…
I never thought of that but you are right. Maybe that’s why I wanna eat him up.
I drove to 10 stores looking for them,never seen so many panicked people before!
Still couldnt get them.
Well, you need to go talk to . . . Trinket.
Twinkies are eternal. Those that remain can last a thousand years. Plenty to go around.
It’s amazing all the Twinkies doggeh was able to get, what with those stubbular legs and no thumbs…..
I have not had one of those in ages….there were stories on the news here this morning about people stocking up on them.
well, Corgis have a very strong herding instinct…
I’m gonna look at my corgi a little differently next time I get a twinkie craving!
Also one of those who has never had a Twinkie…
am I the only one who likes the cupcakes the best? two in a pack!
No, I could take or leave Twinkies and have probably only had .. maybe .. a dozen or something total in my life. But the two chocolate cupcakes in a pack with the frosting and the inside stuff.. every once in awhile I’d get a craving and nothing else would do. So then I’d get some and two would hold me for months or even years. Until the next craving. I guess I’ll have to quit cold-turkey.
Does that mean you can only quit on the day after Thanksgiving?
Oh man. I loved those cupcakes as a child. Mmmmmmm…
You can get Twinkies on eBay, where they are now listed as “Collectibles” and range in price anywhere from $6.99 up to $200,000. Here’s one f the more modestly priced bid offers: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-Unopened-Box-of-10-HOSTESS-TWINKIES-No-Reserve-FREE-SHIPPING-/110978088833?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19d6cf3f81
The highest price now is $15,000,000.
OH? I think the one for $200,000 was posted on eBay as a joke, because it was taken down the next day. There still are several offerings under the “Collectibles” category, though.
I like the chocolate covered Donettes myself. Luckily I still have some in my stock…
Ooooooooh! I LOVE those. Would you mind sharing? :O
Chocolate Donettes and Snowballs!!!!! I’m gonna cry. *sniff-sniff*
Scritches in exchange for a twinkie? Am I not Twinkie-worthy enough for you?
I was actually more of a Hostess cupcake girl myself, but fried twinkies are the bomb.
Hmm, I’ve never even had a twinkie before …
I haven’t eaten one in years. But I used to eat them all the time when I was a kid. In high school, I really loved the Hostess Fruit Pies. I considered them my serving of fruit for the day. But even though I don’t eat any Hostess products anymore, I still think, “Wow!” when I think of them closing for good.
Do you remember the Drakes fruit pie jingle?
Ahem, mimimi…
“Drakes Fruit Pies, make me wanna cry,
Come in apple and cherry,
Makes me feel so
FIIIIIIIIINE!”
OMG, Theresa! No, I don’t recall that. Could you please find a snippet of that to share with us? It sounds FANTASTIC!
Fruit pies!
I don’t understand all the mania for something that doesn’t get enough business! Would it be a lovely marketing ploy?
Sadly their demise is more a product of the labor dispute and not just sales. I remember fruit pies, but my parents wouldn’t buy them for me because they were in a semi-frosted crust. As if twinkies and the cupcakes were that much healthier…..
Oh no! Maybe they only did unfrosted (“natural”) fruit pies in California.
FRIED Twinkies???!!!???!!!!!
And you lived to tell the tale!!
Probably washed it down with fried Coke. (No, I’ve had neither. But I have heard of both.)
Clue me in, as they say, to the way to
fry Coke. CO amazes me yet again.
Fried coke? :-\
Not the gross battered and fried kind you find at the fairs (though I’ve tried one too, and it wasn’t too appealing). We had a fancy version in a restaurant where it’s just fried plain. The cake puffs up almost to a consistency that is lighter than angel food cake, and it was dusted with powdered sugar with fresh fruit on the side. It was a revelation!
So, the question is, “Is he spongecake-worthy?”
[Insert Ho-Hos joke here?]
sure Sharpy. I got this.
It’s a moment featuring (not kidding) a Mormon (also not Mitt Romney ) on Jeopardy.
. Ken Jennings: “What is a Hoe?” (2004)
courtesy Ken Jennings and CBS
Ken Jennings is the contestant most synonymous with Jeopardy!,
having won 74 games and over two million dollars. In this particular case, the category was “Tool Time” and the question was, “This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker.” Jennings buzzed in and answered, “What is a hoe?” Alex quipped, “Is that what they teach you in school in Utah?”
The correct answer was, of course, “What is a rake?”
Haw! That Ken Jennings is my hero. I was lucky enough to watch his ascent and it was remarkablous! Alex has been quoted as saying that there may never be a run like Ken’s again. *sigh*
Mr. Trinket please don’t tinkle on my twinkies.
*facepalm*
Oh, does he look like a Twinkie Tinkler to you?
of course not. that’s why he’s a tricky dinky twinkie tinkler.
Well, keep Trinket away from the drinkies, then he can’t tinkle on the Twinkies.
ya thinkie?
what about it?
*salutes snappily and plays Taps*
*tap-dances snappily to Taps*
– brings to mind the phrase “Doesn’t get the concept…”
My favorite was the Snowballs. The twin pack of those pink coconut covered chocolate cakes w/cream filling morsels of delight always made me smile. I tried the purple (Easter) and the white (winter) ones too, but the classic pink coconut just tasted better!
Looks like Trinket is going to spend the next few years judging everyone to see if they’re Twinkie-worthy.
Did anyone else notice that the box on top is upside down? No? Just me? Oh well, don’t mind me, I’ll just be over here celebrating Obsessive Compulsive Day…
I tink people were more focused on teh puppeh dan da Twinkies.
Did anyone else notice that the box on top is upside down? No? Just me? Oh well, don’t mind me, I’ll just be over here celebrating Obsessive Compulsive Day…
The proper way to eat a Hostess Cupcake:
1. trim (nibble) off the frosting overhang to create a flat disk
2. roll up and remove frosting and save
3. break cake in half
4. lick out cream fillling
5 eat cake
6. unroll and eat frosting.
The frosting is rather hard, more like a fondant than a buttercream. If you’re really talented, you can nibble off the squiggle.
Thank goodness for Tasty Kake and Litttle Debbie!
I had a similar but simplified process:
1. Rip off the white swirl and eat (white sugary ‘stuff’…blah, but I eat it anyway)
2. Rip off chocolate frosting and eat (way too sweet, but eat it anyway)
3. Rip cupcake in half and dig out frosting from each half (also too sweet, but eat anyway)
4. Savor moist chocolate cake halves…..mmmmm….
the longer way makes the treat last longer – say 5 whole minutes. And keeps make-your-teeth-ache-it’s -so-sweet, chocolate “flavor” frosting til last.
And SnowBalls-take off the outside marshmellowy part in one piece, A challenge not to tear it!
I think eating Twinkies explains Max’s stubbular legs. His growth has been stunted! Better living through chemicals.
As an English person, I know little of Twinkies, except for the fact that an American guy once told me they have a shelf-life of fifteen years.
Oh, and: “Silly customer! You cannot hurt a Twinkie!”
Can anyone explain them to me, please? Describe the anatomy of the Common Twinkie.
Some things are best left to the imagination.
I’ll do it.
*rolls up sleeves, pulls out flip chart and markers, dons lab coat and pushes rhinestoned, cat-eyed glasses up*
Okay. The Twinkie is made up of 37 ingredients. We’re not sure what those ingredients actually are or where they come from.
*ahem* (‘scuse me)
However, they seem to be cake like and spongy. They have (had) a golden outer thing wrapped about a creamy inner thing which seems to appeal to children under the age of 15 or so but after that, seem repelling because they are so very strange in their unique sponginess. To adults, that just seems really, really weird. But we have a fond memory of the Twinkie, (for some reason) and remember that they tasted really good at the time.
*unrolls sleeves, removes lab coat and glasses, throws caution to the wind and proceeds to prance happily about in a mountain meadow.*
“tra la la la la”
*throws arms up in the air and starts frolicking an prancing too.*
*with the last Twinkies and Ding-Dongs.* (sings about stuff)
I JUST NOTICED THAT QoD had a FLIPCHART for the presentation!!!!
*celebrates this silly thing*
I’m willing to risk the danger:
http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/twinkie.htm
that was supposed to file under Shyme’s/ comment .question…
Doggone these dumb machines!!!
I left Hostess in my childhood… but I used to eat the #@$& out of those mini muffins!
Language young person! :-!
Tastykakes are still around.:) Mmmchocolate eclair pies.
…and you can use the strawberry pies as lipstick..
I honestly thought Janet Evanovich had made up Tastycakes for the Stephanie Plum series – so they really exist? I live in MI and I don’t think they’re sold here… ?
Tastykakes do exist! They aren’t sold everywhere. From my recollection, they’re mostly an east coast thing. They’re widely available throughout the Northeast and Mid Atlantic, at least. I don’t know about the Southeast.
CORGI!!!!!
That is all.
I have a memory tickle about Twinkies. Someone with a lot of time created do it yourself commerical foods. Like secret sauces, the Colonel’s herbs and spices and, it think, Twinkies.
Does anyone else recall this? I foresee an internet search.
No. I think you’re tripping.
I checked Ammy and found THIS:
The Twinkies Cookbook: An Inventive and Unexpected Recipe Collection from Hostess
O
M
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You can make Twinkie sushi and wash it down with a Twinkie Grasshopper.
If you were so inclined to do so.
Found! I made a seach for “homemade twinkie recipe” and a whole lot of listings showed up. There are even recipes for low-fat versions.
Now, if I could just cook….
Also Canadian, also a Twinkie virgin, but I feel your pain.
Still mourning the passing of chocklit Jello pudding pops [frozen], and a weird rainbow ice cream packed in a plastic cone with a gumball in the bottom.
Le sigh!
The rainbow ice cream thing with the gumball in the bottom sounds totally disgusting but familiar. I must have ate one of those when I was a lass.
but dubyah — they DO still have Fudgesicles and they’re Officially Dang Good,
eff’n Ah do say so, me-self!!!!
I haven’t had a Twinkie in maybe 30+ years so I won’t miss them personally, but they’re part of my childhood and part of Americana. For those reasons, I hate to see their demise.
omg u make happy thinks seem so sad SO SHUTUP!!!!!!!