A Simple Question For You Australian Guys...

[Blacky]

I think there are...Arn't they like twinkies with a shelf life of like 400 years...

Now twinkies have me confused. When I was a kid I used to read loads of super hero comics (didn't we all?). In the front cover was usually an add for twinkies. NEVER ONCE did the adds actually say what twinkies were. I still don't know. As close as I can figure they are some sort of cake? (I guess I should just google it)

EDIT: Well I googled it but I still don't know what a twinkie is made of.

Anyone?

Paul

[emarkay]

What Makes a Twinkie?

The list of ingredients of a Twinkie is a veritable Who's Who of the food chemical world and the following is a list of ingredients as provided on a ten-pack of Twinkies. Take a deep breath:

* Enriched Wheat Flour - enriched with ferrous sulphate (iron), B vitamins (niacin, thiamine mononitrate [B1], ribofavin [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, and beef fat.
* Dextrose
* Whole eggs

How's your stomach? Really? Oh dear... Well hold tight because Twinkies also contain 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 sulphate
* Natural and artificial flavours
* Caramel colour
* Sorbic acid (to retain freshness)
* Colour added (yellow 5, red 40)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A516836

[Blacky]

Got it - thanks. I'm going to try one next time I'm in the US. Is it possible to eat just one?

I got a suprise at a convention in San Jose on one of my first trips to the US. The program said "breakfast supplied" so I declined the hotel's room service breaksfast expecting a hearty breakfast at the convention. I got there and breakfast consisted of coffee, jolt cola and donuts. Now I like cola and donuts as much as the next guy but for breakfast? Call me old fashioned but where's my cornflakes and vegemite toast? Ha! who would eat vegemite as an adult if you had not eaten it by the spoonful, as a kid? It looks awful, it smells awful, is the waste sludge from manufacturing beer, but tastes great. (I'm off to have some now).

Paul

[joecar]

Ha! who would eat vegemite as an adult if you had not eaten it by the spoonful, as a kid? It looks awful, it smells awful, is the waste sludge from manufacturing beer, but tastes great. (I'm off to have some now).
Paul

Paul,
I disagree, it looks great and it smells great...
...and of course the taste is just fabulous...

(Beer products and by-products are all good).

Cheers
Joe

[TAQuickness]

Paul,
I disagree, it looks great and it smells great...
...and of course the taste is just fabulous...

(Beer products and by-products are all good).

Cheers
Joe

I dunno Joe. I've made some beer by-products, aka toxic waste, I wouldn't let near my mouth

[TAQuickness]

Programmers are the only creatures that will spend half an hour figuring out how to save five minutes.
Paul

Do you know the difference between an optimist, pessimist, and an engineer?

The optimist will say the glass is half full

The pessimist will say the glass is half empty

The engineer will say the glass is twice as big as it needs to be

[joecar]

I dunno Joe. I've made some beer by-products, aka toxic waste, I wouldn't let near my mouth

He he he, then you got Vegemite, mate.

[joecar]

The engineer will say the glass is twice as big as it needs to be

He he he, that's funny...

And the engineer will be able to tell you the mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of the glass [and the water], will run some partial differential equations to find the optimum size of the glass, and will proceed to cut the glass and to heat treat it for strength. Hmmm... the green banana has a misfire...

[Tordne]

He he he, that's funny...

And the engineer will be able to tell you the mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of the glass [and the water], will run some partial differential equations to find the optimum size of the glass, and will proceed to cut the glass and to heat treat it for strength. Hmmm... the green banana has a misfire...

The "green banana" is in fact a cucumber, they can not be trusted to perform, not like the banana's

[TAQuickness]

i smell another engineer in our midst Joe