This Twinkie is 40-years-old and it looks good enough to eat

I prefer “shit bench” myself.

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I’m told you’re supposed to tear through those perforations first.

Not that I’d know. The technology is beyond me.

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oh my god, that was disgusting. i kept expecting him to hurl. it’s funny that it’s about 15 minutes of him saying how it tastes like mothballs and old library books, and yet he keeps eating pieces off of it.

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I wonder how old it was when it started looking good enough to eat…

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Even the name “Hostess” sounds old and decrepit.

And if video games have taught me anything, it’ll still be good in another 160, even lightly dusted with radioactive fallout.

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I never understood the whole “Twinkies last forever” thing. I’ve eaten them only days after their expiration date, and they were horrible. And at the time I thought they were pretty good otherwise- bought 'em with my own money and everything. Okay, they look fine for years, but the taste goes off pretty quick.

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I have personally bitten into a moldy Twinkie with my own mouth. It had still been wrapped but I think the wrapper had been compromised. After biting into it I noticed a blue tinge to part of the Twinkie’s exterior.

And you know what? I have never contracted syphilis!

there is no other explanation, seriously

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Oh, a 40 year old Twinkie! Like, that would be just after WW2 era I guess.

When did I get so old?

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Most people don’t realize that Twinkies had a very short production run. Between the April of 1974 and November 1977 a total of 14.6 trillion Twinkies were produced and warehoused before production was permanently seized after the ill revised 1973 “Let Them Eat Cake” act was repealed. Currently the (NTR) National Twinkie Reserve still holds a gross total of over 9.5 trillion twin-packs in its storage facilities stretching across several of the flyover states.

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Yeah, keeping foodstuffs away from moisture will do that.

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Wasn’t there a story going around recently about butter found in a bog that was pretty old and edible? Here we go… 2000 year old Irish bog butter!

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I’ve been impressed by the preservative power of dehydration ever since my childhood, when my day found a dehydrated dead toad behind a heavy duty computer printer. He kept it on a shelf for years until someone stole it. I wonder if they knew what they were getting.

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