A Twinkie is “a Gâteau of Mousseline of gold with a crémeux filling” created by Hostess, and cooked with the furnace by the Continental Baking Co., which is had by Interstate Bakeries Corporation, based with Kansas City. It measures 10 centimetres out of 2,5, and is usually sold per packages of two.

With the the United States, Twinkie is generally regarded as the height of the Malbouffe. Each Twinkie contains approximately 145 kilogram calories (607 kilojoules). Five hundred million is produced by it every year.

How Twinkies are made?

Twinkie was invented on April 6th, 1930 by Dewar James, then directing of Boulanger IE, by diverting successfully pans of shortcake (small Pâtisserie with layers of Confiture and Cookie) which usually were used only during the season of the strawberries. Twinkies has, at the origin, contents a filling of cream of Banane, but this one was replaced with a filling containing cream of Vanille following the banana shortage caused by the Second world war.

Although the manufacturers never indicated how Twinkies are made, the majority of the people believe that they are cooked with the furnace, because the funds seem brown. The Washington Post brought back on April 15th, 2005 that “the cakes are cooked with the furnace during 10 minutes, then the filling of cream is injected by three holes in the top, which is browned treatment the furnace. The cake is reversed before the packing, thus the round yellow bottom becomes the top. ” Hostess was the implicit source of this information.

Urban legends

According to a urban Legend, Twinkies have one enormous shelf life. While some Web sites of urban legends concluded that this is false, some Twinkies were kept since 1988 which do not show any sign of deterioration. There is an American expression which says " You can leave Twinkie on a bench, to return one century later Twinkie will be always là".

Twinkies fried

According to the Web site Hostess, Christopher Sell invented “the twinkie fried” " fried twinkie" at ChipShop, its restaurant with Brooklyn with New York. It was described by the NewYork Times in this way: “Something of magic occurs when pastry making strikes hot oil. The cream-coloured vegetable fat contents filling is liquefied, soaking the cake muslin with its succulent vanilla savor. The cake itself softens and heats, almost make, differing from the crust crunching and cooked out of fryer in a manner of butter and suave. The store adds its own sauce to bay of ruby-hued, which provides a little sophistication to the rough taste. ”.

In 2002, the fair of State of the Arkansas had presented Twinkie fried to the great popular acclamation, it put in the shade of other fairs of State through the United States, as some establishments which specialize in delights fried.

Twinkies in the popular culture

• the Twins of Minnesota are called the “Twinkies” by the supporters, a joke in reference to the tradition of the team of the lack of accuracy going back to their days in so much Washington Senators. During interpretation, it is traditional in the Metrodome, the park at the house of the twins, to replace “the team which receives” by “Twinkies”.

• a defense in court is known as of twinkie when it is claimed that a certain not very common factor (such as the allergies, the coffee, nicotine, or sweetens it) decreased the responsibility for the marked person of the crime. Example: the lawsuit of daN White, which was condemned to have killed by ball the mayor George Moscone of San Francisco and Harvey Milk, supervisor of the city, but the “defense of Twinkie” was actually only one minor and unimportant element of the file of defense (to compare the Défense Chewbacca).

Use in American slang

Twinkie acquired several significances of slang.

In the gay Slang, “Twinkie” is generally used to describe a young male attracting, thin and slightly muscular, with little or not of hairs. It is the opposite of a “bear” .

The term “twinkie” could be employed, in order to criticize it, as metaphor for an Asian-American who resembles a Caucasien (yellow on outside, physics, and white on the interior, mentality), similar at the end “oreo” for the American-Africans. In the film Harold and KUMAR go to the white castle ( Harold & KUMAR Go to White Castle ), the main character, Harold, is known as Twinkie by its pars Asian-Americans of with his lack of attachment with its origins Korea, its Protestant faith (although protesting Christianity is widespread in Korea), and its political support for the republican part. An alternative synonym for the use is “banana”. It in manner pejorative is also applied to these people who are half-Asian and half white.

Among the indigenous Americans, a “twinkie” is a person who believes in a way nauseating and artificial in the Indian religions or which claims to be American native for fraudulent goals.

The journalist of TV Linda Ellerbee, in the paragraphs of opening of his autobiography defines a “twinkie” as the kind of journalist without news and who entirely does not include/understand the news which is reported to him, quoting itself like example.

A “twinkie” or simply “twink” in the slang of Gamer (video player) is a dépréciatif term for a young person gamer who entirely does not include/understand the play, or a gamer more tested whose apparent lack of arrangement is supposed to be stubborn.

A “twinkie” is also employed in the Canadian communities Western of the youth of street to describe a member of a stable home environment which however has chooses to live a life of child of street without need. The term “mark” is often employed same manner.