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Twinkies are back! You better get in line....
It's Twinkies comeback day at Wal-Mart, three days ahead of the snack's anticipated return nationwide. Wal-Mart is rolling out the first batch of new Twinkies in 1,600 stores on Friday. And by Sunday, Twinkies will be available in 3,000 Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500) stores, according to company spokeswoman Veronica Marshall. Wal-Mart is selling Twinkies in an exclusive collectible box that says "First Batch" on the packaging and the new Twinkies tagline: "The Sweetest Comeback in the History of Ever." They cost $2.98 for a box of 10. "These are the first production of Twinkies since production restarted," Marshall said. "Each box that arrived to us contains fresh Twinkies and not frozen ones." Wal-Mart had planned to start selling Twinkies on Monday but pushed up the date when it was able to "get the inventory earlier," Marshall said. If you listen carefully you can hear the Twinkie buyers getting fatter. Jul 12 13 11:39 am Link Yay for criminals... one more opportunities to make the "twinky-defense" sticky... I mean... stick!  Jul 12 13 11:44 am Link udor wrote: Hey hey....that was a classic moment in US jurisprudence. Jul 12 13 11:56 am Link Cherrystone wrote: Yeah, good idea and with a ten year shelf life your investment can grow..... Jul 12 13 11:57 am Link I'm going to get a box and put them in a glass case. Jul 12 13 11:58 am Link In Central Ohio they are at Kroger today. Shelf life extended to 45 days now because they are shipped frozen. Jul 12 13 12:00 pm Link Austin IMagemaker wrote: You'd need to understand how the collectible market works for original packaging & the product still unopened & intact. It ain't about eating them. Jul 12 13 12:02 pm Link Cherrystone wrote: Good God Dude, who could ever afford to eat one....so unhealthy.....so packed with cheap sugar....so tasty? The Twinkie package has more food value than the Twinkie. Jul 12 13 12:06 pm Link Austin IMagemaker wrote: anyone who is moderately healthy and can afford to add cheap calories. Jul 12 13 12:17 pm Link Damon Banner wrote: How about "anyone without taste buds?" Jul 12 13 12:18 pm Link Jul 12 13 12:21 pm Link Laurence Moan wrote: 1957 Jul 12 13 12:26 pm Link Austin IMagemaker wrote: matter of opinion. There are lots of options out there. you don't want to eat them, don't. let someone else buy them. easy. Jul 12 13 12:27 pm Link Damon Banner wrote: Yes, the options to eating this "dog food" are crystal clear. Jul 12 13 12:30 pm Link Austin IMagemaker wrote: I know right? Jul 12 13 12:35 pm Link Laurence Moan wrote: Not so fast! Twinkie sales will be off the charts in the "obese states" by morning..... Jul 12 13 12:41 pm Link I can hear shirt buttons popping already, and they won't be mine. Jul 12 13 12:55 pm Link Yuk. Twinkies are nasty. Jul 12 13 01:04 pm Link Austin IMagemaker wrote: So you're saying neither my mother or I had taste buds? BS Jul 12 13 01:07 pm Link Austin IMagemaker wrote: Of course you've never eaten or drank ANY crap whatsoever in the course of your life, right? Jul 12 13 01:08 pm Link Laurence Moan wrote: Two minutes ago. Jul 12 13 01:09 pm Link Twinkies no, DingDongs Yes! Jul 12 13 01:13 pm Link I've never been the biggest Twinkie fan, but I really love frozen Ding Dongs right out of the freezer. Jul 12 13 01:45 pm Link So, ever wonder what's in those things anyway? Twinkie Deconstructed http://www.twinkiedeconstructed.com/Twi … lcome.html "A pop-science journey into the surprising ingredients found in dozens of common processed foods, using the Twinkie label as a guide" Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats http://www.amazon.com/Twinkie-Deconstru … 0452289289 Are Those Rocks in Your Twinkies? http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3270691 Gulp! Take a gander at a Twinkie’s 37 or so ingredients http://www.today.com/id/38869408/ns/tod … gredients/ Jul 12 13 01:52 pm Link Mike: The 'rocks' they're referring to is baking powder and gypsum. You don't use baking powder in your homemade cakes and cookies? Really? And gypsum is a very common ingredient in food. As a food additive, Gypsum (calcium sulfate) is recognized as acceptable for human consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use as a dietary source of calcium, to condition water used in brewing beer, to control the tartness and clarity of wine, and as an ingredient in canned vegetables,) flour, white bread, ice cream, blue cheese, and other foods. I'm sure you've heard of importance of "vitamins and minerals." I'll be you didn't know there's enough oxalic acid in 10 pounds of spinach to kill you, but nobody eats ten pounds of spinach at a single sitting. Nobody is telling anyone to eat Twinkies like fruit, five servings a day. From the article: "Twinkies are a dessert, they're a snack, they're a treat, and to have one once in a while is fine," he said. "People ask me, 'Are Twinkies bad for you?' No." Nobody is forcing you to buy Twinkies. Jul 12 13 02:35 pm Link They are artificially delicious, and I'm glad they are back...but I'd rather wait three days than give Wal Mart any of my money. They treat their employees like crap, and are generally unpleasant. Jul 12 13 02:37 pm Link Cherrystone wrote: I am so sorry my thread made you eat crap. I will be more careful in the future in what I post. Jul 12 13 02:46 pm Link Meh, I like the Tastee Kake version better  Jul 12 13 02:53 pm Link Austin IMagemaker wrote: No one makes me do anything, excepting someone pointing a gun at my head. Jul 12 13 03:01 pm Link Cherrystone wrote: You should batter and deep fry them. That should deeply depress the OP. Jul 12 13 03:10 pm Link Cherrystone wrote: Sounds like you ate an oyster and not a twinkie..... Jul 12 13 03:12 pm Link I had one of the new ones. The old ones are better. Besides, they're too popular now. Anyway, gotta run. I'm off to start a new band. (My old band got too popular) Jul 12 13 03:34 pm Link I had one of the new ones. The old ones are better. Besides, they're too popular now. Anyway, gotta run. I'm off to start a new band. (My old band got too popular) Jul 12 13 03:34 pm Link Does this guy likes twinkies? Jul 12 13 05:52 pm Link Ive only had one once in my life and it was amazing.Now I will never have one again simply because they seem to be too popular and apparently they don't taste the same Jul 12 13 05:55 pm Link Luis Macit wrote: So you are rejecting the new twinkie because they are now popular? Jul 12 13 05:57 pm Link They seem pretty iconically American to me and I'd be disappointed if I couldn't try one at least once in my life. To the person who's deliberately bashing them and all the people saying they enjoy them, why? No one is forcing you to eat anything you don't want to. Their choices in diet have zero affect on you. They are not being advertised as a healthy food, they are a dessert. Jul 12 13 09:39 pm Link Damon Banner wrote: And butter them before I eat 'em. Jul 12 13 09:41 pm Link Austin IMagemaker wrote: Dude, you've said "fat" often in this thread, and now this image. Jul 12 13 09:44 pm Link Only on MM would someone start a seemingly innocuous thread about snack cakes, just for the purpose of trolling anyone who admits to eating them, because some random OP poster is TOTALLY qualified to make a diagnosis of the health and fitness of everyone else in the thread based on the monumentally revealing fact that they have eaten a Twinkie at least once in their life.  This is why we can't have nice things. Jul 12 13 10:01 pm Link |
