Hostess Twinkies Sushi

[Charles]

Hostess Twinkies Sushi

[Mulboyne]

I'll admit I didn't know what these were. Your post has greater shock value now that I've found out...

A Chicago bakery manager named Jimmy Dewar invented the Twinkie in 1930. He named the first creme-filled golden snack cake after a billboard advertising the Twinkle Toe Shoe. Twinkies soon became a cultural legend....Twinkies originally sold two for a nickel and had banana-creme filling. A banana shortage during World War II caused the snack to switch to today's famous vanilla-creme filling...In 1999, the White House Millennium Council selected the Twinkie as one of the items to be preserved in the Nation's Millennium Time Capsule, representing "an object of enduring American symbolism."

[bejiita]

...the White House Millennium Council selected the Twinkie as one of the items to be preserved in the Nation's Millennium Time Capsule, representing "an object of enduring American symbolism."

Although, it won't last 1,000 years, 25 days is still a long shelf-life for a baked product.

[jingai]

That sushi is the most disgusting thing I have seen in a long time.

[Mulboyne]

UPI: Twinkie offers twist on sushi

Twinkie lovers are gobbling up a new cookbook featuring recipes for Twinkie Burritos and Twinkie Sushi. In 2005, as part of Twinkies' 75th anniversary celebration, Hostess asked people to share their ideas for cooking with Twinkies. The publisher, Ten Speed Press, said hundreds of people responded with a collection of homegrown, creative, and sometimes wacky recipes. The recipes include the aforementioned burrito filled with Twinkies, strawberries and chocolate and sushi -- featuring green fruit leather instead of seaweed. Pigs in a Twinkie includes the traditional sausage. The book includes more than 50 recipes and 20 full-color photographs.

[Kuang_Grade]

There was a short lived Shrek twinkie tie-in that would have served well....Instead of the white filling, it had green filling...Not quite wasabi green but not too far off in a horrible unnatural way



http://www.x-entertainment.com/halloween/2004/october28/

[Greji]

I'll admit I didn't know what these were. Your post has greater shock value now that I've found out...

Sometimes we Yanks forget that you blokes from across the pond have been left out of some of the finer things of life such as an RC, a Moonpie and twinkies. Better than sex (ahh, well, almost)!

[Charles]

Better than sex (ahh, well, almost)!

Let me disabuse you of that idea right now: the "cream filling" is 90% lard and 10% powdered sugar.

BTW, I just noticed something interesting in the pic: behind the "sushi" is some ginger. No, not the usual pickled ginger, candied ginger.

[Big Booger]

Let me disabuse you of that idea right now: the "cream filling" is 90% lard and 10% powdered sugar.

And it's every kid's dream cake. I used to love eating one of these with a A&W rootbeer to wash it down!

[Greji]

And it's every kid's dream cake. I used to love eating one of these with a A&W rootbeer to wash it down!

And the chilli dogs at the A&W stand! Life was good! They also would produce some remarkable farting. No where near the daikon class, but passable all the same!

[Charles]

And the chilli dogs at the A&W stand! Live was good!

Yeah, one of my friends in high school's dad owned a drive-up A&W stand. We used to drive up when we knew my friend was taking orders and loudly speak into the microphone, asking for a placenta burger and fetus fries. I can just imagine the reaction that got, blaring through the cheap loudspeaker inside the stand. But he delivered those placenta burgers and fetus fries just the way we liked em.
I was surprised the other day when I went to the bank, they had a new display of old vintage photos of the city, including some pics of that old A&W joint. It must have been 30 years since it closed, but I saw the pic and suddenly I could remember even the taste of the food.

[maninjapan]

160 calories for one cake?!

No wonder so many Americans are huge fucking bloaters!

[Greji]

160 calories for one cake?!

No wonder so many Americans are huge fucking bloaters!

There was an AW on the 2nd floor of our building when we were in Shiroyama Hills. It was right across from Kamome's office and probably closed cause he left Japan. However, the majority of the FG customers that used the place were not Yanks, as most of the working force in that immediate area were British, German, and other European, with assorted Yanks scattered in for seasoning! Mulboyne and Kamome as vets of Kamiyacho eki can correct me on that if my take is wrong!

[otakuden]

Hostess Twinkies Sushi

kowai!

[kamome]

There was an AW on the 2nd floor of our building when we were in Shiroyama Hills. It was right across from Kamome's office and probably closed cause he left Japan. However, the majority of the FG customers that used the place were not Yanks, as most of the working force in that immediate area were British, German, and other European, with assorted Yanks scattered in for seasoning! Mulboyne and Kamome as vets of Kamiyacho eki can correct me on that if my take is wrong!

There was an A&W in Shiroyama Hills? I never saw it. Maybe it closed before I started working in the area around 2003. I remember there was a Wafu restaurant on the second floor and a spaghetti & pizza joint. I also belonged to the overpriced gym on the second floor.

[Greji]

There was an A&W in Shiroyama Hills? I never saw it. Maybe it closed before I started working in the area around 2003. I remember there was a Wafu restaurant on the second floor and a spaghetti & pizza joint. I also belonged to the overpriced gym on the second floor.

Actually, that was the 3rd floor. The second was more like a mid-floor. If you went up the front escalator on the side (next to the parking lot/entrance to TV Tokyo and kinda diagonal from your old building), there was a French style bakery/coffee shop on your immediate right. You had to walk past that and through some doors, than the A&W was on the right! Right before we moved out of the Hills, it was changed to one of the Campbell Soup corners that are now poping up around J-land. The only A&W I know of, if it is still open, is in the Shinagawa area.

[kamome]

Actually, that was the 3rd floor. The second was more like a mid-floor. If you went up the front escalator on the side (next to the parking lot/entrance to TV Tokyo and kinda diagonal from your old building), there was a French style bakery/coffee shop on your immediate right. You had to walk past that and through some doors, than the A&W was on the right! Right before we moved out of the Hills, it was changed to one of the Campbell Soup corners that are now poping up around J-land. The only A&W I know of, if it is still open, is in the Shinagawa area.

Wasn't the pizza joint on the immediate right after ascending that escalator? And I think the conversion to Campbell's Soup had already occurred by the time I arrived (unless I was completely clueless and didn't see A&W beforehand).

Gb, wasn't that Starbucks on the first floor (and the outdoor cafe) a great place to look at eye candy? It made for a nice break from work!

[Greji]

Gb, wasn't that Starbucks on the first floor (and the outdoor cafe) a great place to look at eye candy? It made for a nice break from work!

You got it! The Docomo shop was the first on the corner by the street and Starbucks was behind it. The patio are in front of the main entrance was the smoking area for Starbucks

The Esquire Club with bunnies was on the third floor. That area was where the elite used to meet in those days, but as you went down the street toward McDonalds and Kamiyacho eki, the neighborhood went to the dogs. All the banker/brokers hung out there and after the bubble, they were a sad pain standing out there on the street with their tin cups and hand-printed signs. I should ask Mulboyne how long it !was before he and his group moved on, but I think I'll be kind (for today at least).