Twinkie dilemma

Hi there! I’m a newbie online and in this message board, but I’ve read quite a few posts (so I don’t repeat a question), and I’ve also read the classic questions answered by our fearless leader. Okay, here’s my question… my boyfriend says that Twinkies are just one chemical away from being plastic. Is this true? Any input would be greatly appreciated. :slight_smile:

Seeing that twinkies are bread with creamy filling, I’ll say it’s all croc. You know of any plastic-from-bread substance? If you do, you’d be one rich doper.

And welcome to the SDMB.
I’m Merc…

It all depends on whether you are speaking physically or spiritually. Deep inside every Twinkie sleeps the empty soul of a polymer production plant. That’s why you can taste the filling, but you can’t taste the love. Twinkies are evil.

Your boyfriend is a deep guy.

Another name that is occasionally spoken in these parts is Poundstone.
He tells us the first Twinkies were creamed up in Chicago in 1930.
If Twinkies are one chemical away from being something else then the chemical must morph, because what goes into Twinkies could be partially hydrogenated vegetable and/or animal shortening with soybean oil, cotton seed oil, palm oil, beef fat, lard.
But the list is parenthetical. What Contental Baking puts in is what they can get their hands on at the cheapest price.
He does point out that the man who invented Twinkies, one James A. Dewar, always referred to the internal stuff as a creamed filling (emphasis on the 'ed) which suggests that one ingredient you’ll never find there is cream.