Saturday, June 13, 2009

Toxic Twinkie Shock

"Everyone knows there are only two things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: cockroaches and Twinkies." Family Guy

Um, yeah, about that...

I started my morning the other day with a power bar, a shot of wheat grass, and a bowl of organic berries... Nah, just kidding. I'm on vacation so I picked up a coupla Twinkies at a C-store.

I snarfed the first down in mere seconds and it tasted a little off -chalky, crusty, a bit like aged sheetrock. But operating under the assumption that Twinkies are immortal, I didn't think anything of it. Upon unwrapping the second I was shocked to discover I had just eaten a rotten Twinkie. Take a look at the green mold on that little cowboy. Yikes!

I thought I'd encountered about everything on the road and then I ate the fetid Twinkie. I survived but just barely and I have to admit I've had nightmares about gigantic Twinkies chasing after me and Hudson and Murphy since. From here on out, I think I'll stick to hoo-hoos....

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

actually it is cockroaches and Spam will survive nuclear holocaust. I have a can of spam my mom gave me in 1978 when I got my first car

ET said...

Hey Luke -- Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Twinkies: The Twinkie was invented on April 6, 1930 by a bakery manager James Dewar in Schiller Park, Illinois, making thrifty use of pans that were used for shortcake production only in strawberry season. Twinkies originally contained a banana cream filling, but this was replaced with a vanilla cream filling because of a banana shortage during World War II.[1] The original flavor would be revisited more than half a century later as an alternative flavor.

Wonder if that "alternative flavor" is what you were tasting!

Bob said...

Bob and I cannot believe that you were actually so desperate as to eat that awful rotten thing. This is why Bob is very particular about his treats, sniffing them many times over and taking only a tiny nibble until he is certain they are safe.
Take a lesson from the dogs, Luke.

Anonymous said...

a box of twinkies wont last 30 mins one twinkie wont enven last 30 seconds let alone the 30 yeas i have heard