CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

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You Cannot Describe a Twinkie

Saturday, November 17, 2012

this entry brought to you by my chemical romance, "sing"


I was brought to my attention years ago that it's actually really difficult to describe a Twinkie to someone who had never eaten one before. Think about it. If you were from another country, how in the world would you get across the idea of a Twinkie? Ding Dongs are easy. They're chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Snowballs are coconut covered cake with uh-- strawberry flavor? I don't know, I've never had one, the idea of eating something with coconut on it has always sounded horrifying.

But anyway. The Twinkie. It's like sponge cake, filled with creme. But that doesn't quite describe what it tastes like-- that sounds simultaneously more delicious than what it is, and somehow not quite as snack worthy. There was something about the Twinkie where you could pack it in with your child's lunch as a treat, whereas spongecake filled with creme sounds much more exotic than it is. It's one of those American confectioneries that everyone loves but isn't actually that tasty. There's a quality of the Twinkie that makes you want more, in a way that something that tastes better would outright satisfy you. It is a weird, contradictory snack cake that honestly, just can't be described in a way that truly tells you what it is.

...And now our children will watch movies and television shows made be for 2012 and never be able to experience that. This is not the end of the world, and it's not as bad as some people are going to make it. There are other cake snacks out there, and moreover, there are better cake snacks out there. Still, there is something oddly un-American about it.
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with love from CRS @ 1:15 PM 

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