Thanks to their preservatives, Twinkies have earned a reputation as the go-to snack for doomsday preppers. But what happens ...

Scientists Are Fascinated By An 8-Year-Old, Moldy Twinkie A Twinkie stored in a basement for eight years has been transformed by fungi, giving scientists something unusual to ponder and probe.

But while a deep-fried Twinkie may taste great, it’s not exactly a healthy snack. Coming in at 9 grams of fat and 220 calories, Deep Fried Twinkies have double the fat content of a regular Twinkie.

The Twinkie was born in 1930 and is often credited to James A. Dewar, a Illinois baker for what was then the Continental Baking Co. The firm produced a cream-filled strawberry shortcake and, when ...

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Next month, the Twinkie turns 75. And no, that’s not how long one of the little yellow snack cakes stays fresh. “Contrary to popular belief, the shelf life of a Twinkie is 30 days,&#822… ...

The Twinkie's shelf life will be 45 days when the baked good returns to grocery stores on July 15. That's almost three weeks longer than the 26 days the former Twinkie was supposed to stay fresh.

The Twinkie remains on display in a glass box in her office and has become, in many ways, the school’s claim to fame. Rosemeier is still in awe at the amount of attention the Twinkie has garnered.

3. Speaking of throwbacks, vintage Twinkie commercials were actually terrifying. Maybe not all of them, but certainly this one featuring your grandparent's favorite characters from the old show ...

With ingenuity, capital and creative chemistry, billionaire C. Dean Metropoulos and Apollo Global's Andy Jhawar rescued Hostess--and set themselves up to feast on a $2 billion gain.

The "Twinkie defense" is so ingrained in our culture that it appears in law dictionaries, in sociology textbooks, in college exams and in more than 2, 800 references on Google. Only a few of them ...

This Twinkie has made the rounds in the news before. When Hostess, the bakery company behind Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, and, of course, Twinkies, announced in 2012 that it was bankrupt and planned to ...