The Twinkie.
An American Icon.
The Ultimate Childhood Snack.
I have a little Twinkie history for you today. It's good to gain knowledge from all areas of life, ehhh?
Birth date: 1933 (Twinkie is an old man)
Father: The Continental Baking Company (The same company that made Wonder Bread)
Mother: Hostess ("carried" by this snack line). Haha! Everyone has a few cornball moments that they relish.
It originally began as a strawberry shortcake but soon folk realized that strawberry bushes don't bear fruit all year round so they decided to fill the off-season with banana cream-filled Twinkies. Next, the Great Depression sadly yanked away all the bananas and they ended up with a vanilla cream filling that they never changed again until this day. I'm really pulling a fast one with the history. Reminds me of 5th grade research papers. My info source: Twinkies. Judge me and I smack you.
Jay Kay. No damaging my people! :)
The most interesting fact is that the Twinkie was MOST popular during the 1960's when there was widespread fear of nuclear attacks by Russia and China. Twinkies were said to "stay fresh forever" so people bought a ton of them for their bomb shelters. Now that is an interesting thought. Why exactly do Twinkies stay fresh forever? If we employ a conditional claim here, we may be able to figure this out. We know that food and other living things do not stay fresh forever. We humans don't even stay fresh forever because we get less fresh every year. That means that non-living material stays fresh forever because it does not change. So if Twinkies "stay fresh forever", then Twinkies must not change. Thus, they must be non-living material and should probably be classified more as an inanimate object than food. Boom. Bam. Done. Swarthmore taught me well