Eating the Twinkie
Many weeks ago, I posted a picture of a twinkie experiment my class and I did. I kept two twinkies--one wrapped and one unwrapped, in my office. Since we had our last class today, I brought the two twinkies in for my class to observe. The wrapped one was basically unchanged. The unwrapped one had dried out within about a week of unwrapping it. Other than that, it remained unchanged. No sign of mold or decay whatsoever, which is amazing when you consider the cream filling.
I was showing them to my second class when someone actually volunteered to eat a piece of the open one. I didn't have a legal disclaimer to sign, I cut a slice off for them anyway. He liked it. So did students in two of my other classes. I tried a slice myself and it wasn't bad. Kind of like a nilla wafer with a marshmallow. Still, the fact that all that sugar and starch can sit out in the open for three months without any problem is a little scary.