Twinkies – How could I have forgotten about Twinkies?
Written: May 01 '08 (Updated May 01 '08)
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Product Rating:
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Pros: Well remembered...been around a long time.
Cons: Not really as great as I remembered and terrible for you.
The Bottom Line: These are purely a junk food item, but memories made them seem much more than that.
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| Magick1's Full Review: Hostess Twinkies 15oz |
Having a preschooler in the house there are a million and one things that she doesn’t know yet and it’s my job to help teach her and guide her along life’s busy highway. Hopefully along the way, she will gain from my infinite wisdom and do better than I did growing up. Well, one can always dream, right?
My lovely daughter found my choice in music (see K Tel Presents Funny Favorites) quite humorous. But, when one of the songs kept coming up, she had to know what a Twinkie was as mentioned in the song Junk Food Junkie. Trying to explain some of these things to her from the song were impossible! I had to just show her what a Twinkie was, as telling her would only get me these quizzical looks like “mommy, are you feeling ok?” from her when I tried!
The Product
If you have never had a Twinkie, I can say good for you and I am sorry. These are some of the crazy snack cakes that came out back around the depression. Originally, apparently, they were supposed to be shortcakes for strawberries. But, when the strawberry season was done, the manufacturing lines were not working, and that was not acceptable to the guy that created the Twinkie. He decided to change it from strawberry shortcake to the banana filling and off the idea went!
The Twinkie is a small sponge cake snack that is roughly 4 ½ to 4 ¾ inches long and roughly 2 inches wide by 1 ½ inches high. The sponge cake is a yellow-golden color and is spongy and almost greasy to the touch! Inside there is a creamy filling that tastes remotely like a sweet lemony banana-y flavor. It’s truly hard to describe.
When you open the wrapper, honestly, it gives me a hint of lemon, albeit a very small hints, but still! The flavor doesn’t taste very much like lemon though and it doesn’t really taste like banana either. It is a sweet tasting sponge cake like snack cake with an even sweeter creamy filling inside. The combination of the two is terrific to some (like my daughter) and to others, well, it is unremarkable!
(Side note: the first time my daughter tried one of these, she was so hesitant. She took a very tiny bite and then all of a sudden, her eyes opened wide and she grinned and said that is the best special treat she’s ever had. She is hooked on them now, and now, she understands what the guy in the Junk Food Junkie song was talking about when he mentioned Twinkies. Next, we will have to show her Moon Pies.)
When I mentioned the Twinkie seems greasy, it’s not a joke. I even noticed on the wrapper there is a film from the product left in the wrapper. Well, that was unsettling. We know these are terrible for us, but oh, they are a nice, decadent switch!
Nutritional Information
Well, I might as well quash all of those drooling for a Twinkie out there. The nutritional information is based upon 1 serving which is a single Twinkie not a pack of 2 cakes!
Calories 150 Calories from Fat 40
Total Fat 4.5g or 7%
Saturated Fat 2.5g or 13%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 20mg or 7%
Sodium 220mg or 9%
Total Carbohydrate 27g or 9%
Dietary Fiber 0g or 0%
Sugars 19g
Protein 1g
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 2%
Iron 2%
Ouch, that hurts. One little snack cake can pack one heck of a wallop on the daily intake! Again, as in previous reviews with nutritional information, you should know this is based upon a standard 2,000 calorie diet! Now, another thing you likely don’t want to see, the ingredients.
The Ingredients
Enriched bleached wheat flour [flour, reduced iron, “B” vitamins (niacin, thiamine mononitrate (B1), riboflavin (B2), folic acid)], sugar, water, corny syrup, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated vegetable and/or animal shortening (contains one or more of: soybean, cottonseed or canola oil, beef fat), whole eggs, dextrose, contains 2% or less of: modified corny starch, glucose, leavenings (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), sweet dairy whey, soy protein isolate, calcium and sodium caseinate, soy flour, salt, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 60, soy lecithin, cornstarch, corn flour, corn dextrin, cellulose gum, sodium stearoyl lactylate, natural and artificial flavors, sorbic acid (to retain freshness), FD & C yellow 5, red 40.
Contains: Wheat, egg, milk, and soybeans.
Overall Impressions
The Twinkies were fine. They were nothing to really comment on, for me. From the perspective of a 5 year old, they were awesome (2 thumbs up). I did not really enjoy the one I tried. The memory of what they were like (in my mind) was much better than the real thing. I don’t know if I just had such sweet memories of them and felt let down because they just did not seem that sweet and they felt greasy or what. But, they were not terribly wonderful for me and I likely will not have any in the future. My daughter on the other hand, likes them a lot. But, I likely won’t be buying any more to bring into the house. She has had this experience, time to let that experience go into the memories and leave it at that!
Twinkies you were not like I remembered, but you were ok. I don’t have to wish you well, as reports that I have seen on the web say you sell roughly half a billion a year and are said to be Hostess’ best seller! Well, I am a chocolate girl and I love the chocolate cake rolls personally!
~Thanks for spending time with me today!~
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Recommended:
No
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