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Twinkies
Lunchbox:
I'm skinny, I eat whatever I want, but lately I have realised that processed food is disgusting (seriously, that coating it leaves inside your mouth? vomit). Salad is the way to go.
SALAD. SO DELICIOUS.
Slick:
I find the most disturbing thing about processed foods to be the preservatives. I am just starting to worry about the net effect of dumping preservative-laden food through my digestive tract for the past twenty-four years and it bothers me. I am imagining my intestine, semi-embalmed. I know that is not the case but I worry about my micro-fauna hangin' out in my gut and I don't want to kill them with preservatives I want them to be strong and to be my pals!
Lunchbox:
Also preservatives make me really ill.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: Hairy Joe Bob on 19 Nov 2010, 19:12 ---What the hell is a twinkie and why the hell are they so popular in America? Why have twinkies become such an important part of your culture and what the hell is wrong with you?
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Twinkies are somewhat popular due to being one of our older national brands, but compared to Oreo cookies, Doritos, or Lay's potato chips they're small-time snack foods and actually aren't all that popular. I haven't seen anyone buy or eat a twinkie in years. When I worked at a gas station in college we didn't bother even carrying Hostess food products (Even their cupcakes, which have always outsold twinkies) and at the time I think they were filing for bankruptcy. Twinkies basically have negative cultural cachet, but notoriety gets press even when you can't sell more than 500 million a year (Which, is actually kinda sad by US snack standards-- there is 300+ million of us, after all). When it comes right down to it, they're known in part because they're one of the default foods you cite when you decide to call someone a fat lazy fuck. They're also older than dirt so thanks to WWII they're one of those items foreigners associate with the US despite the fact that we're usually too busy eating Snickers and washing it down with a Coke or Pepsi to be bothered eating one.
allison:
--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 20 Nov 2010, 13:48 ---That picture of the chocolate covered Twinkie and the non-annoying new person's story of freezing Twinkies reminded me of these caramel filled cake things that I ate a bunch of when I was in Timmins, which were amazing when you froze them. Canadian people, any idea what I'm talking about? My google-fu gives me nothing.
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Fucking yes
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