FYI: Twinkies are not a cooked food product

Wag

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Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Are they even classed as "food"?
Nobody quite knows how they're made because Hostess has never said so.
Wikipedia seems to always have the answers. Wonder how they dig up this stuff?

 

ironcrotch

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Originally posted by: Wag
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Are they even classed as "food"?
Nobody quite knows how they're made because Hostess has never said so.
Wikipedia seems to always have the answers. Wonder how they dig up this stuff?

I've had deep fried twinkies, now that was odd.

But wiki is community based, so you can edit that page and add whatever u want to twinkie history.
 

alien42

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Originally posted by: Wag
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Are they even classed as "food"?
Nobody quite knows how they're made because Hostess has never said so.
Wikipedia seems to always have the answers. Wonder how they dig up this stuff?

you said they arent baked but wikipedia says "baked by Continental Baking Co."
 

darkamulets

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On the food network theirs a show with Mark Summers they went over tinkies once. They are baked and injected with cream filling.
 

Wag

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Originally posted by: alien42
you said they arent baked but wikipedia says "baked by Continental Baking Co."
It says that, but then keep reading, they go on to say this is only an assumption made by most people because the bottom is brown. There is no proof either way.

In fact, I have read elsewhere that they are not cooked in any way at all.

 

Kalvin00

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Originally posted by: Wag
Originally posted by: alien42
you said they arent baked but wikipedia says "baked by Continental Baking Co."
It says that, but then keep reading, they go on to say this is only an assumption made by most people because the bottom is brown. There is no proof either way.

In fact, I have read elsewhere that they are not cooked in any way at all.

Well then, how do you think they are made, smart one?
 

Baked

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Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Originally posted by: Baked
Twinkies is squeezed outta some alien's butt just like Slurm.
I would like to go on record with saying they do not come from this Alien's butt.

We can all be thankful it didn't come from your...
 

Kadarin

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Originally posted by: darkamulets
On the food network theirs a show with Mark Summers they went over tinkies once. They are baked and injected with cream filling.

So I wonder, what are the qualifications for the job of injecting the twinkies with the cream filling....
 

dxkj

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Though Continental Foods has never revealed how Twinkies are made, most people believe they're baked, because the bottoms look brown. The Washington Post reported on April 15, 2005 that "the cakes are baked for 10 minutes, then the cream filling is injected through three holes in the top, which is browned from baking. The cake is flipped before packaging, so the rounded yellow bottom becomes the top." Hostess was the implied source of this information.
 

Baked

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Originally posted by: dxkj
Though Continental Foods has never revealed how Twinkies are made, most people believe they're baked, because the bottoms look brown. The Washington Post reported on April 15, 2005 that "the cakes are baked for 10 minutes, then the cream filling is injected through three holes in the top, which is browned from baking. The cake is flipped before packaging, so the rounded yellow bottom becomes the top." Hostess was the implied source of this information.

They showed how Twinkies are made on a Food Network program. The host for the show is the game guy who did Double Dare on Nick.