For all you folks who have been hording twinties thinking that they last forever, keeping them for the end of the world, you might be starving when the end does come.
Today I found out that Twinkies have a shelf life of only 25 days. The popular notion that they “last forever” or for some ridiculously large amount of time is incorrect.
Here are some other popular myths concerning Twinkies:
* Twinkies aren’t baked. The sponge cake instead is made from a chemical reaction that causes a cake-like material to foam up. It is then colored dark brown at the bottom to give the appearance of being baked. (This is of course false. Twinkies are in fact baked and their primary ingredients are flour, sugar, and eggs.)
* Contain a chemical used in embalming fluid which helps account for some of their extreme longevity. (wrong again!)
* The Twinkie will last longer than the cellophane wrapper they’re wrapped in (nope, 25 days and then they get stale and go bad in a similar fashion to any other bread)
via Twinkies Are Only Good for 25 Days.
