Mike Hsu's Blog

Actually Twinkies have an official shelf life of only 25 days.  Although, that fact has been put to the test with varied results.  After hearing about Hostess Cakes putting themselves out of their own misery by shutting down and laying off over 18 thousand workers, I searched for facts on their most famous product.  What I found were hundreds of links to experiments performed on the iconic cake.  Some reminded me of various forms of torture I've seen in movies and on the news.  I realized that one of America's favorite junk foods was also the most abused.  They have been electrocuted, thrown from buildings, drowned, hung, radiated and set ablaze.  Actually you can't set a Twinkie on fire unless you dowse it in an accelerant.  Which leads me to believe Hostess may have been involved with NASA when it came to developing a heat shield for their spacecraft.  

There was also a rumor that Twinkies contained some of the same chemicals as Jet Fuel, but I couldn't find any firm evidence.  Another urban myth said if you left a Twinkie in a bathtub full of water over night it would expand and fill the tub without dissolving.  Also, in my personal experience, it takes a Twinkie about 45 seconds to collapse in on itself and start burning in a microwave oven.  If you're lucky, you'll get one with an air bubble inside and it will make a spectacular explosion.  The clean up sucks though.(Yes, again stoned.)  Unfortunately this is not true, believe me, I actually tried it.  Yes I was stoned.  You can check out the most famousTwinkie experiments here.