European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 252007 scene stars and stripes Page 23 More stuff tasty durable treats on the web Ive never had a hostess twinkies snack cake based on a popu Lar article on Newsweek web site which reports on the seemingly Una vory ingredients in the decade sold food product i dont plan to change that anytime soon but the spongy Little things Lead quite the life online Mumm tasty chemicals with a headline like that How could twinkies be anything but scrumptious Anne underwoods Newsweek writeup Fol lows the exploits of author Steve Ettlinger who tracked Down the sources of twinkies 39 ingredients without the cooperation of hostess for a new Book that right a twinkle has 39 ingredients compared with As few As six for a Home baked cake but most Are used to Aid in processing or to keep the snack cakes fresh on shelves still Ettlinger describes one of them Calcium sulfite As Foo Grade plaster of Paris if you Click on the link what exactly is in a twinkle you will see that its Only real preservative is Sorbie acid which is made from Petroleum Way at the Bot Tom the article does note ultimately All food natural and otherwise is com posed of chemical compounds gotcha  Hudson press has set up a web site for Ettlinger Book twinkle deconstructed whose subtitle tells you every thing you need to know my journey to discover How the ingredients in processed foods Are grown mined yes mined and manipulated into what America eats whew be sure to Click on the twinkle nexus on the location shots and Media info pages to see his twinks Len dust rial Complex of raw and final ingredients in just sorry that i want Able to attend the boo launch party in new York City which featured Cham pagne and a twinkle tasting table that included an organic whole wheat Low fat Low calorie vegan version maybe those chemicals  be so bad after All have you heard that twinkies have an indefinite shelf life wrong says the myth busting web site slopes the Golden Cream filled cakes remain fresh for 25 Days not the alleged seven or even 50 years that the official line from hostess anyway at Wiki Pedia new Kipe theres a 2006 photo of an Experiment from a science class at sky View Junior High school in Bothell Wash showing a packaged twinkle from 1998 that appears not to have decomposed at All but if you want to get rid of a twinkle really fast a microwave will explode one in about 45 seconds hostess says in the slopes writeup which brings us to our next entry  a the twinkies project Twink ies Arent a food item but an experimental subject hence the acronym which stands for tests with inorganic noxious kakes in extreme situations in a series of experiments conducted by Rice University students during finals week in 1995 twinkies were electrocuted dropped burned submerged crushed microwaved and questioned yes questioned As part of an intelligence the comic results Are documented in scientific dumb jumbo pictures and Haiku i would be remiss if i didst list the official twinkies web site where you can say View wedding cakes made from the food item that has been tin gling taste buds for More than 75 years unfortunately the twinkle shop is closed but you can find recipes for making things such As twinkle kebabs and twinkle sushi using dried fruit to look like the real churchgoers reportedly swear by Melody Herpels homemade twinkies whose Cream filling recipe she shares at the recipe Zaar web site give it a try unless you prefer the processed version with All the Chemi cals Randy a Solas is a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune do you have a favorite web site or a question about How to find something on the internet email web to q q q q n How of a like those apples q will the seed from my big red Apple the key to producing Good apples is to raise the grow into a tree that produces Little bitter right varieties of Trees in the right climates to a things and if that the Case whats that certain extent Johnny Appleseed whose real mean for Johnny Appleseed was he name was John Chapman got this process Start really doing anybody a favor peppering de born 1774 died around 1845 depending the midwestern landscape with Trees Bear ing barely edible fruit Steve Grisetti Wauwatosa wis a in havin a big of Juicy red Apple for break had straggly hair and a Long Beard went Bare fast this morning Steve with Chunky foot and often dressed in an old Coffee Peanut butter on it Yum Yum crunch sack Nice look he started nurseries on whom you ask he was a botanist missionary conservationist animal Lover and Friend to the native americans he was also pretty weird he glad you asked Jeff elder hey theres a seed in this bite too Heyl we spit that seed onto the ground and a few years go by up sprouts a tree and out pop some apples How do a like them apples not that much but there not the Little bitter things Steve imagines there just Kinda Plain apples of indiscriminate variety the seed has not produced the exact same kind of Apple just As a human child is not exactly like the Parent All kinds of genes from ances tors have been mixed together to produce a Mutt Apple we dont a Mutt Apple so we dont want All those genes the specific varieties of apples Jonathan macintosh Golden delicious must be grafted or asexually propagated to produce Truet name apples explains Larry Mellichamp professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte How do a graft you Kinda duct tape the tree you want onto the tree you got seriously often a Section of a Stem with Leaf buds is inserted into the Stock of a Small tree and bound with rubber Bud Ding strips or another binding throughout the Midwest by planting seeds he bought from cider Mills Back East in those Days a main use for apples was for making Applejack a fermented libation he transplanted seedlings and gave Trees to the Pioneer settlers by spreading different varieties around settlers were Able to discover often by trial and error the Best Apple for their Region today fascinating fact strangers Are fat my friends Are Chubby in big boned a Pew research Center Survey looked at our perceptions of Peoples weight nine in 10 american adults say most of their fellow americans Are overweight but just seven in 10 say this about the people i know and just fewer than four in 10 say they them selves Are overweight get your shirts right Here we finally have glad you asked shirts again Send me three Good questions your size and address we look Good on you email Jeff Eider at driving you nuts song lyrics dont you just hate it when you can almost remember something but then it slips away Here Are lyrics from a song that was popular sometime in the past 100 years you can either come up with the title and artist or you can just keep mouthing the words to yourself All Day and yes we know you could just Google it but that a Little something we Call do you want 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