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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: arguably the most important podcast Chuck Bryant and I will

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Speaker 1: ever record. I'm Josh Clark. This is stuff you should know,

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Speaker 1: and brother, I am jacked up me three. You're ready? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm speaking for Jerry. So she's the Marcel Marcello our group. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's always wears the gloves. Hate mins? I actually don't

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Speaker 1: hate monsisistic cliche to say you hate mins. Minds are cool?

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Speaker 1: It says who that minds are cool? Yeah? I just

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Speaker 1: said it, jerk. Chuck and I have clearly been eating

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Speaker 1: far too many Twinkies in preparation of this. Yes we have, yeah, Chuck, Yes,

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Speaker 1: what do you know about the twinkie? Let's talk about twinkies.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about twinkies. Everyone knows the twinkie is a

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Speaker 1: popular junk food snack cake. Yes, legendary junk food snack egg.

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Speaker 1: I would say, I would say legendary as well. I'm

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Speaker 1: glad we're doing something light like this. Just lighten Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Chuck, how long is it twinkie. Twinkie is uh

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Speaker 1: four inches long? How wide is it? Twinkie? Inch and

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Speaker 1: a half? Did you know that originally it was first

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Speaker 1: invented it was made with banana cream filling. Indeed, let's

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Speaker 1: get into this, buddy. Those are just some teasers, all right.

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Speaker 1: So the twinkie was first invented in the nineteen thirties. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Continental Bakeries. Yeah, they're the vice president of Continental Bakeries,

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Speaker 1: which is already doing business as Hostess, which we know

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Speaker 1: and love, is the maker of Twinkies and what I

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Speaker 1: consider to be the greatest snack food of all time,

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Speaker 1: the crumb cake. Really a fan. I like the nutty bar,

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Speaker 1: the Little Debbie nutty bars. We're not we're talking host

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Speaker 1: is here, buddy? Yeah? Um, they will assassinate you. What

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Speaker 1: are those? They're like pink balls? What are those snowballs?

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Speaker 1: Chucks on it? Alright, So back in the vice president

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Speaker 1: of Continental Bakery he's a guy named James. What is it,

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Speaker 1: James Dooer. James Dooer not a Scotch maker. His brother

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Speaker 1: could have been. Um. He decided that the company's idle

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Speaker 1: machinery that was used to make a strawberry filled little

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Speaker 1: shortbread Fingers was the brand name. Um could be put

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Speaker 1: to better use. Well, the machines were idle because sea yeah, seasonal,

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Speaker 1: because strawberries only grow certain times of the year, right,

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Speaker 1: so the rest of the year that they would just

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Speaker 1: sit there. And this bug doer and he decided to

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Speaker 1: little uh, little yellow cake filled with creamy filling jammy

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Speaker 1: frosting if you were, that could be made year round. Um.

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Speaker 1: And apparently on his way to a marketing meeting for

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Speaker 1: this snack cake, he passed a billboard for twinkletoe shoes,

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Speaker 1: which I gotta tell you, I would never buy shoes

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Speaker 1: called twinkletoe shoes. Sure you would, you dream sailor totally would. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And that was it. He had the name right there,

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Speaker 1: and Twinkies were born. Yeah, there's always a cute story

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Speaker 1: behind names like that. Anytime the words twinkle and toes

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Speaker 1: twinkies were born, and uh, as I said, they were

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Speaker 1: until World War Two. Yeah, I didn't this. I thought

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Speaker 1: this is pretty interesting. They quit doing that because there

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Speaker 1: was a shortfall of bananas during the war. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: so that they replaced the banana with vanilla frosting, right,

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Speaker 1: about the early twinkie and the pure goodness that was

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Speaker 1: the early twinkie. Yeah, it was in the early days, Josh.

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Speaker 1: It was made with eggs, milk, butter, as you would

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Speaker 1: And that was cool because it tasted good. But Doer said,

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Speaker 1: not a big I mean to eat twinkies now anymore? Well,

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Speaker 1: occasionally enjoy a twinkie for sure. I haven't had a

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Speaker 1: funnel cake with a Twinkie inside. It's the greatest thing

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Speaker 1: will sometimes you'll have to come over. We'll shave some

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Speaker 1: years off our life. Seriously, Uh excuse me? Should we

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Speaker 1: holes upside down. Twinkies are baked up. What you would

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Speaker 1: those are from the manufacturing process. They're cream filling injectors,

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Speaker 1: the try injection? Yeah, how that sounds good. It does.

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Speaker 1: So that's pretty much it. Man. They seal it air

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Speaker 1: process is really where the preservation comes in, right, because Chuck,

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Speaker 1: that they will last indefinitely. Not true, No, it isn't.

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Speaker 1: And actually there's only one ingredient in the twinkie that's

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Speaker 1: original run of Twinkies, which actually is clearly alive because

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Speaker 1: they would be banana flavored. Um. But the Hostess company

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Speaker 1: We're talking about whether or not twinkies could last indefinitely,

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