Twinkies are Forever

These Twinkies have been around since 2006

I give credit to Hostess Twinkies for being the first to open my eyes to a healthier lifestyle.  There was a time, as a child, when I would eagerly accept Twinkies, although I preferred the pink Snowball things.   Once, I stashed a package of Twinkies in my fishing tackle box in anticipation of a happy day of fishing with my father.  Time went by.  I grew into a teen and forgot about fishing with dad.  It was years later when I came upon the box and discovered the Twinkies still in there, in their original mint condition.  As if years had not passed.  That just did not seem right.

I haven’t eaten a Twinkie since then, but in November of 2006 I thought I would purchase another set of Twinkies and see how long they would last.  I hung them up on the Chiropractic Advantage  bulletin board with a little handwritten note–it said “how long will they last?  Purchased 11/01/2006.”  People didn’t get it.  A few people said they wouldn’t last long at all, because someone was going to take them off the board and eat them.  Thousands of people have squeezed and squashed them over the years, and the bag is a little tattered.  Yet the Twinkies are holding up pretty well.   Here’s the question: if bacteria and insects won’t get into them, should you?