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JD59 · 03-13-2007, 10:15 PM

New York, NY (AHN) - Twinkie - the yellow outside and creamy inside cakes can make your mouth water at their first sight, but a book "Twinkie, Deconstructed" suggests there some more that one should learn. The author of the book Steve Ettlinger says he was taken to multiple locations, including phosphate mines in Idaho to gypsum mines in Oklahoma, as he searched for the origins of ingredients of the Hostess Twinkie.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006719735 (broken link)

cassy1 · 03-14-2007, 08:38 AM

I guess if you put that kind of junk in your mouth that you can expect more than a few surprises. My cholesterol is getting high just thinking about a soft twinkie, filled with surprising new "fiber".