Twinkies were invented by Dewar when he realized that strawberry cake machines that sat idle when strawberries weren't in season could be used for another purpose. Originally, Twinkies were filled with banana filling, but bananas were rationed in the 1940s, so they switched to vanilla creme. It was so popular that they decided to stick with it.
The secret to Twinkies long shelf life is the fact that they contain no dairy ingredients. Hostess estimates that they use 8,000,000 pounds of sugar, 7,000,000 pounds of flour and 1,000,000 eggs to make the 500,000,000 Twinkies that they produce each year.
Twinkies have become part of popular culture and, for students at Rice University, also part of a grand experiment. The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project used a variety of experiments to determine the properties of Twinkies.
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