I had to chuckle a bit at this given the anti-climatic nature of the whole Mayan calendar event. It reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend. I was joking with him that the Mayan calendar no show was almost as good as Geraldo Rivera's show The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults. The LIVE show was a complete bust when they opened the vault to find nothing but debris.
Of course the demise of the Twinkie was a big story and within a few hours of the announcement, you were hard pressed to find one on a store shelf. You can however, buy them on Ebay. Looks like a box is going for about $7.00.
In honor of the Twinkie and the many that I have eaten over the course of my life, I felt that I should share with you how the Twinkie was born.
Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries' Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company's thousands of shortcake pans, which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally Twinkies.
Good by Twinkie... You will be missed.
-Red
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