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The Brian Lehrer Show / July 31, 2007 / Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Twinkies (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Twinkies (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Author Steve Ettlinger tracked down the origins of every one of the dozens of ingredients that go into a Twinkie for his book Twinkie, Deconstructed.
Twinkie, Deconstructed is available for purchase at Amazon.com
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Bleeeehch. Never liked 'em even as a kid and at 61 never will. They are crap and taste like crap. And if that's creme in the middle then I'm a blow-up doll.
A twinkie is a dessert and presumably eaten infrequently.
I'd like to hear more about the scary ingredients in things considered staples.
Thank You, Steve Ettinger!
Do you have plans to edify us on the wider perversions of industrial food, additives where you would never suspect (like salt isn't salt unless)
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