Now I know what I want for Christmas

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Now I know what I want for Christmas

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Y'all can start saving your money now to chip in together to give me this for Christmas! Santa thinks of everything!

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I'll try man but that's a long time for me to hold a thought.
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Currently sold out anyway. You should have snagged yourself one when you had the chance. Apparently everyone else thought it was a great invention too. My first thought was how delicious it would be to make a batch with chocolate and nuts inside, and then eat them piping hot with a glass of cold milk or a cup of coffee. Oh well, he who hesitates is lost!
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My god: just the thought of a Twinkee makes my teeth want to curl and my stomach churn. :-B
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Oh my giddy aunt ........ a childhood/teenage memory is to have these things frozen. Don't knock it until you try it.
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Half the goodness of a Twinkie comes from the preservatives and ingredients like cellulose gum, calcium sulphate and petroleum-based artificial colors and flavorings. There are believed to be a total 39 ingredients in a Twinkie. I'm not sure I could duplicate that at home.
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39? Really? Who would've thought.
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I quite realize that I don't have the tastes and preferences I had when I was 10.

Nevertheless, maybe 20 years ago I had a Twinkie for the first time in 20 years, and I thought it was lousy. I had no doubt that they had changed the recipe since I was a kid, and that if the recipe of 1995 had been the recipe in 1960, I would never have liked them in the first place.
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I truly can't remember specifically ever eating a Twinkie. I'm sure I must have eaten one or more as a kid. I have nothing against sugar, l just don't have a taste for super sweet foods.
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jww wrote:Oh my giddy aunt ........ a childhood/teenage memory is to have these things frozen. Don't knock it until you try it.
Yup. An all-time favorite. Of course it's been two decades since I've tried it...probably let the memory stand.

Likewise a frozen Hostess Peach Pie. Heaven when I was 14. I'll live with the recollection...
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