The twinkie is one of Americia's favorite anytime snack. Most people don't know where the twinkie originally came from. It came from the Hostess factory in Indianpolis in 1933. James Dewar was one of the bakers to invent the twinkie. He came up with the name when driving by a billboard that had an ad for shoes from the "Twinkle Toe Shoe Company". He liked it and shortened the name to "twinkies". At first, twinkies were filled with bananas but when the bananas were rationed in World War II, they switched to vanilla cream filling. After some time in the 50's, the twinkie gained more popularity when hostess came up with the character Twinkie the kid to support the howdy doody show. The myth has it that twinkies can last forever but in fact their legit shelf life is only 25 days. People think that it can last through a nuclear war because the twinkie does not rot but if someone eats a 20 year old twinkie, I do not think it would be appetizing. The White House put a Twinkie in their time capsule for the new millennium, as “an object of enduring American symbolism.” If that doesn't scream America's fat, i don't know anything that could top that.
http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/twinkie.htm
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/twinkies-fun-facts/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/758229/the_history_of_the_great_american_twinkie.html
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