Should Hostess open source their recipes?

And don't forget most of the ingredients can be found at Home Depot, True Value, and other building supply stores.

So that's why their white powdered doughnuts tasted like drywall.

I'm still wondering if I have to mix my own sterilized, sweetened, whipped beef lard.

Is there a kosher symbol on Twinkies? If not I'd bet it's pork lard rather than beef. It's cheaper to make that way.

Drywall or sawdust? Since the latter is waste material that also has to be cheaper.

@All -

You sicken me with your ignorant prattle regarding the makeup of one of the world's great delicacies.

How many producers would go to the trouble of making their sponge cake from real artificial sponges?

And you get only the finest, freshets kreme. Not just any kreme, but 100% natural kreme, fresh as it came from the KremeSource.

I got the inside skinny on this whole thing yesterday. The whole thing was caused by Hostess losing their contract with Dow Chemical.

There is nothing skinny about Hostess products. Eat some regularly and see how un-skinny you become.

Caitlyn, since they're not made of food products, they pass through your system, so they are calorie-neutral. Though the SpackleCakes tend to clog up the plumbing a bit.

I recall a horse race, some 20 years ago, in which the object was to ride the horse to the other end of the field, choke down a Twinkie as fast as possible, then run WITH the horse back in the other direction.

I won the race, but I have not wanted to eat a Twinkie since.

Ok, I can no longer resist the temptation to tell my Twinkie story:

I put myself through engineering school working at a local TV station. I usually got the late night shift (the sign-off shift) since no one else wanted it, and for me it was a good time to study while working alone playing the late night movie reels.

Anyway, we had a live after-school show for the kids with a ventriloquist clown with a "dummy" who introduced cartoon clips. For this show, we had a "peanut gallery" of real school children who could supply reaction and interact with the dummy. Twinkie sponsored the show and every day they brought in tray upon tray of the things to give away to the gallery kids.

This meant that there was a never ending supply of fresh left-over Twinkies that I could tap into every night if I got hungry. As a poor university student, I lived on Twinkies for years.

Since graduating and moving away from TV and into real engineering jobs, to this day I cannot and have not touched a Twinkie since. Twinkie Overdose...

@penguinist --

Ha! I hear you. Sounds like my pepperoni aversion.

One of the jobs that I worked in college was pizza delivery. Returned and refused pies were put in back for the drivers, and placed under heat lamps. Over time, the pepperonis would curl up, leaving a pie pocked with little cups of grease.

Yum.

I'm still hungry. This isn't working.

Darn, Steven, where's the "like" button? (same thing is happening to me, but then I remember the taste of a Twinkie and the feeling goes away)