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Anonymous Coward User ID: 88006 United States 06/30/2009 01:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There are simple carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates, and then there's the Twinkie, made from military industrial-complex carbohydrates. It's got some of the same ingredients as tracer bullets and artillery shells, as I learned from reading Steve Ettlinger's Twinkie, Deconstructed. Ettlinger's book, just out in paperback, documents the 39 ingredients it now takes to make a Twinkie, many of them minerals and chemicals, some derived from crude oil. This petroleum-based pastry is about a million food miles removed from your grandma's yellow sponge cake, which had a shelf life of maybe two days, max. Today's Twinkie, on the other hand, stays frighteningly "fresh" for an unnaturally long time (officially, 25 days, but we all know it's really more like 25 months.) Real butter turns rancid too fast, so the Twinkie gets its butter-like taste and texture from petrochemical-based ingredients like diacetyl, a close cousin to acetylene welding gas, and butyric acid, a flavor which Ettlinger gleefully informs us is "a natural component of Parmesan cheese, rancid butter, and, unbelievably, vomit and perspiration." Twinkie, Deconstructed may amaze and appall you, but the fact is that while a Twinkie is not particularly good for you, it's not all that bad for you, either. It's just an amalgam of industrial ingredients and artificial flavors posing as an actual pastry. How did we ever fall for this oily oblong cake with the mystery "cream" filling? |
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first nations son (OP) User ID: 712645 United States 06/30/2009 02:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Anonymous Coward 714148 That's the one--Iron Eyes Cody-whose real name was Espera Oscar de Corti and was of Italian ancestry, though he alternately claimed during the course of his life to be either Cherokee (seems to be a favorite) or Cree, or both. He was outed sometime around the mid 1990's I believe. Credit where it is due though-the advertisement was dramatic and had an impact though I've often wondered why,up until recently, Hollywood always had a penchant for using non indigenous people to portray us-when you look at some of them it surely couldn't have been due to their acting ability. |
Winningjob
User ID: 385114 United States 06/30/2009 03:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They sell "FRIED TWINKIES" downtown on Freemont Street, I have never had the nerve to try one....I'll take my heart attack with a burger and damaged beer liver instead! Quoting: first nations son 712645Try spam and commodity cheese-get you there faster I actually have just under a hundred cans of SPAM (Light) in my cupboard. Oh...and cases and cases of Ramaen Noodle. LOL...horrible for health, but hey, lasts a long time and the Spam can be eaten without cooking or using a can opener. |
first nations son (OP) User ID: 712645 United States 06/30/2009 04:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They sell "FRIED TWINKIES" downtown on Freemont Street, I have never had the nerve to try one....I'll take my heart attack with a burger and damaged beer liver instead! Quoting: WinningjobTry spam and commodity cheese-get you there faster I actually have just under a hundred cans of SPAM (Light) in my cupboard. Oh...and cases and cases of Ramaen Noodle. LOL...horrible for health, but hey, lasts a long time and the Spam can be eaten without cooking or using a can opener. You would qualify as a spamillionaire on the rez |
Winningjob
User ID: 385114 United States 06/30/2009 04:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They sell "FRIED TWINKIES" downtown on Freemont Street, I have never had the nerve to try one....I'll take my heart attack with a burger and damaged beer liver instead! Quoting: first nations son 712645Try spam and commodity cheese-get you there faster I actually have just under a hundred cans of SPAM (Light) in my cupboard. Oh...and cases and cases of Ramaen Noodle. LOL...horrible for health, but hey, lasts a long time and the Spam can be eaten without cooking or using a can opener. You would qualify as a spamillionaire on the rez :-) |
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