All About Twinkies

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If you thought Twinkies were just a cream-filled sponge that lives forever, think again. Not only do some people eat their Twinkies, they actually cook with them too!

"Twinkies, they’re not just for dessert anymore. The new Twinkies Cookbook has recipes for everything from a Twinkie Burrito to Twinkie Lasagna.

"Theresa Cogswell compiled about 50 recipes for the book.

"Many were submitted to Hostess, as part of Twinkies’ 75th anniversary celebration last year."

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In your excitement over the endless possibilities of using Twinkies, just be careful not to eat too many. The Twinkie Defense might not work today.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

25 thoughts on “All About Twinkies”

  2. When I lived in LA, I had a number of friends who worked for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. So the annual Academy Awards was a sorta big deal. We’d gather at a friend’s house & she’d have 3 TVs hooked up & snacks & drinks & stuff. And Twinkies. Lots of ’em. Why? ‘Cos we’d throw them at the TVs when somebody did or said something really . . . dumb. Bad speech? Smack ’em with a Twinkie! Ugly dress? Hail of Twinkies! Did the wrong nominee win? Pelt ’em! Great fun. To this day I have no idea why Twinkies were the weapon of choice but it’s the best use of them I can think of! (BTW, the Twinkies were still in their wrappers. We’d have tape at the ready to fix them when necessary. Otherwise, it’d get messy.)
    After I moved back to Northern California, I continued the tradition with friends up North except we’d use marshmallows – they make a really satisfying *POP* when the hit the TV screen! Especially the Jet Puffed kind!
    And does anyone remember the strawberry Twinkies? They don’t make them anymore, do they? What? Too healthy for folks? 😉

  4. “And does anyone remember the strawberry Twinkies?”
    We used to LOVE those twinkie-like cakes with the red stripes and coconut on the outside. We called them Tiger Tails.
    I don’t know if that was the actual name, or if they were strawberry and not cherry, or something, but they sure were good.
    And remember Sno-Balls?

  6. Just like the song went “Yes We Have No Banana’s ” popular during the WW11 because banans were rationed, Hostess had to come up with a different filling.
    They switched to vanilla creme and it was popular so they never changed back.

  8. “And remember Sno-Balls?”
    Yes. But I never could eat them ‘cos, when I was in grade school, a kid in my class would squish the Sno-Balls up inside the package, snip off one corner & squeeze the nasty-looking mess into his mouth, pretending to be an astronaut, I guess. Made me sick to watch. But, like most such disasters, I couldn’t not look at the spectacal. It had a strange . . . poetry to it.
    And, thanks, Amy. Although I really can’t take credit for the initial idea. That would be my friend Annie in LA. Whatever you do, do NOT forget tape for Twinkie repair! It gets really, really messy otherwise! (Twinkie guts are not at all pleasant to wash out of hair, apparently.) But do try marshmallows – they’re really fun to throw at a TV screen! Once, one stuck on Richard Gere’s forehead & we laughed for 10 minutes straight!
    Simple things for simple minds . . .

  10. I had a fried Twinkie at a barbeque once. It was pretty tasty so I went back for seconds.

  11. Sno-Balls are great too. Plus, the 64 grams of carbohydrates (47 grams pure sugar) are mitigated by 2 entire grams of fiber! Now that make good nutritional sense.

  14. “I wonder if the book has the Twinkie wiener sandwich (with Cheese Whiz) as portrayed in UHF.”
    Ah, yes, Wierd Al.
    For those in the dark, a Twinkie wiener sandwich is made by splitting a Twinkie lengthwise so as to resemble a hot dog bun, then inserting a cooked hot dog, and topping with Cheez Whiz.
    Whatever you do, don’t microwave it.
    I’ve never had one.
    UHF (the movie) has aged surprisingly well. I mean, it’s really bad, but it’s so bad it’s good. Lot’s of memorable lines and some great sight gags.
    It was also the origin of the famous “Spatula City”.

  15. Something like the defense according to diminished actuality, which California established after the White case, was recenly attempted here in Texas in a DWI murder trial (as opposed to intoxication manslaughter). The defense claimed that the defendant lacked the intent to commit murder. However, he was sentenced to 99 years in prison by a Williamson County jury.
    I guess he should have stuck to eating Twinkies.

  16. I used to tell my younger daughter that her idea of a ‘balanced diet’ was a Twinkie in both hands!

  17. Strawberry Twinkies?
    Are you sure you’re not talking about Raspberry Zingers from Dolly Madison? They indeed have coconut on them.
    When you add in both chocolate and yellow cake Zingers, you can see that Zingers are clearly the better snack. Although they don’t have nearly the longevity of a Twinkie, as proved by Ohio State’s famous long-term experiment.

  18. “Are you sure you’re not talking about Raspberry Zingers from Dolly Madison?”
    Nope. The ones I remember definitely had stripes and were twinkie-shaped, not squared off like zingers.
    I DO remember laying in a supply of “Dolly Madison neat-to-eat treats” to watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas”.
    They were always sponsored by Dolly Madison.
    This was back before cable and VCRs, when these specials were a once-a-year event. If you missed it, you just waited until the next year.
    I never missed them.

  19. I remember strawberry twinkies. I found one in my lunch one day and being the blind person I am I bit into it, thinking it was a regular twinky… wrong. I hated the strawberry filling and have never liked them since. I remember snowballs too, though I just pull off the marshmello outside and eat the chocolate cake with the cream in the middle. I love cocoanut, but the marshmello ruins it for me. Personally, I’ve always wanted to try a malomar, but I don’t know where to find them. I think they’ve gone away forever… darn. Anyway, the twinky pelting and the marshmello throwing sounds like such fun!
    Laura

  21. When I was a kid, my mom packed my lunch for school. Occasionally I was warned that I was not to trade the contents of my lunch for anything that my mother had packed. One day, though, I did. I traded my orange for a single twinkie. I bit into it and it had a very strange sweet/metallic taste to it (I still remember after almost 20 years!) I spit what was in my mouth into my paper lunch bag and noticed that the cream in the twinkie was green!!!
    I guess twinkies do expire or get moldy! I learned my lession, I never traded during lunchtime again!

  23. A fellow teacher, who married two years ago, used a couple hundred Twinkies for her wedding cake! All ‘glued’ together with multi-colored frosting! Quite a sight!

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