Comments on: Ding Dongs & Wedding Bells

Ding Dongs & Wedding Bells

adrober — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:03:30 -0800

Why straights shouldn't marry. "Phil and Pam both loved to eat Twinkies and Cup Cakes as children. On their first date, Phil ended a day of golf with a bottle of champagne and Cup Cakes to munch on as they watched the sun set over the Hudson." (via Holy Shitake.)

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:06:22 -0800

That. Is. The. Most. Beautiful. Thing. I. Have. Ever. Seen.

By: bcwinters

bcwinters — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:07:54 -0800

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.

By: boaz

boaz — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:08:32 -0800

Now, if only it was deep-fried.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:12:07 -0800

the world is a safer, better place with hostess. /me ♥ teh frosted donettes

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:12:42 -0800

I prefer orange soda and a Chipwich myself. Mmmm. Chipwich.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:14:50 -0800

I like to make mini-psuedo-chipwiches with entemann's chocolate chip coolies and rainbow chip cake frosting.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:15:36 -0800

You laugh, but it took a good night of convincing to prevent the fiance from going this route with our wedding cake. Instead, we're having fancy cupcakes. tho, my groom's cake may be ala hostess...

By: namespan

namespan — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:21:14 -0800

wow. the love between a man and his hostess baked goods is a beautiful thing.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:22:13 -0800

*wipes a tear away* I'm sorry, weddings rarely move me this much.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:25:07 -0800

i understand the parent company declared bankruptcy the other day.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:26:17 -0800

i understand the parent company declared bankruptcy the other day. thanks a lot, health nazis. *shakes fist*

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:30:04 -0800

Mhh there's something wrong with the elegant stylized couple on top of the cake and the cake itself...for some reason the association "I'm loving it" and McDonald is running to mind, guess I'm 0wned ? Anyway, hopefully they're enjoying their marriage.. oh shit enjoy coca-cola is running to mind...I so much need to stop watching advertisement.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:31:49 -0800

Now, if only it was deep-fried. Um. From the same site: A weddings page. "Employees at the Deluxe Corporation had fun competing in a "Dress Your Twinkie" contest." WTF? After Eating More Than 21,800 Twinkies Lewis Browning Still Wants More Jack Sheffler, art history teacher at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, is building a towering pyramid out of Hostess treats to show the similarities between "pop" art and ancient architecture to his students.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:32:42 -0800

Out out demons of marketing ! *waves magic demarketing wand*

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:33:20 -0800

That guy better hope the Culinary Institute doesn't find out about this. They'll not only fire him, they might have him shot.

By: jonson

jonson — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:34:44 -0800

At least anyone who wants to try this can be relatively sure that their wedding won't be interrupted by supervillains.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:35:43 -0800

When Lewis Browning dies, they won't have to worry about embalming him. With all those damn preservatives he's ingested, he'll keep for a 100 years or more.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:37:14 -0800

That guy better hope the Culinary Institute doesn't find out about this The culinary institute appreciates junk food as much as the rest of us, psmealey. The worlds greatest hot dog stand (which is in your area dude) is rune by a culinary institute graduate.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:39:47 -0800

Seriously?? I had no idea. Super Duper Weenies is awesome by the way. I mean just AWESOME.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:48:02 -0800

The best dessert I've had this year was at a really nice seafood place on the Oregon coast that featured a house Ding Dong dessert, but made with fine devils food and fresh creme, all covered in a high quality chocolate. It was amazing. The most impressive thing about this cake was the sheer number of hostess products they worked into it. Usually these things are regional, so it's hard to get chocodiles in one town where sno-balls are easy to come by.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:49:40 -0800

psmealey: To my experience, people who have culinary careers usually have strange junk-food fetishes. It's kind of accepted in the industry. I once went to menu planning meetings at a place called Nick's Coney Island where the chef ate a "chili hot-burger" which consisted of four hotdogs to make a "patty" which was smothered in chili and served in a burger bun. Between bites he was describing his theories about fois gras. Another friend of mine, a sous-chef, once talked to me about this hotdog stand in a parking lot of a grocery store. He was very excited that the chili dogs were served with a chili that used hotdogs as the meat. I dunno, but that's pretty fucking genius if you ask me. One night a chef I worked for made the crew dinner. He made fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Evidently he saw the recipe in the Elvis Cookbook. So, to the point, this cake is awesome. I would be proud to study under such a culinary forward thinker. jonmc: Yeah! Hotdogs!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:50:13 -0800

Best in the world. Make mine chili, bacon, cheese, kraut & mustard. Gary, the guy in the flag bandana is indeed a graduate of the Institute. How else could he make a humble tubesteak so delicious? And in the constitution state he's got serious competition. But back to Twinkies. I love them. I remember getting them in my lunchbox, and licking the "creme" of my fingers. I remember collecting the cut-out baseball cards on the back of the box. I've even dined on the fried ones at the chip shop in brooklyn. What are the kids of the future gonna be stuck with if they go under? fruit leather and carrott sticks? We should start a telethon...

By: Katemonkey

Katemonkey — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:59:13 -0800

Oh good Christ, that thing is beautiful. One time, I went to a fair my brother's elementary school was hosting, and they had a cake walk (where you walk and if you're on the right number when the music ends, you win a cake), and instead of cake, they had twinkies, and I kept on winning. Oh man, I had a twinkie defense going on for a mighty long time...

By: i_cola

i_cola — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:07:01 -0800

I've never worked out why Americans have this reputation for being a nation of fat dumbasses...

By: gesamtkunstwerk

gesamtkunstwerk — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:07:15 -0800

I guess the best thing about a cake like this is that you can seal up what you don't eat and save it for your golden anniversary.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:16:40 -0800

I've never worked out why Americans have this reputation for being a nation of fat dumbasses... Hey, the place in Brooklyn that serves the fried twinkie is run by Brits, man. :)

By: shepd

shepd — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:18:10 -0800

Oh man I love that cake! Now I know what type of cake I'll get for my wedding (should that ever happen)! Maybe even a custom wedding ring made of twinkie! Those things are good forever, you know.

By: thatothrgirl

thatothrgirl — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:26:22 -0800

You want deep fried wedding cake? Well, then the Krispy Krack Wedding Cake is just what you are looking for. And robocop, Deb at Freakgirl had a cupcake wedding cake. On top they had a small cake that they could save for the anniversary, which I thought was a neat idea.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:29:51 -0800

Mandatory Twinkies bashing baby-eating anti-herebelions economic analysis ; twinkie lovers don't click you have been warned. Also on the bottom of page a somehow superficial, but interesting analysis of composition.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:39:51 -0800

el papacito, your parents never let you eat twinkies did they?

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:02:16 -0800

jonmc :) yeah and they made me eat mcdonalds till I was old enough to runaway. I liked twinkies as they're indeed delicious taste bud trippers, but I learned to look for better yet delicious enough food like, for instance, this delicious kind of biscuit which I'm eating as I write. Another alternative is the ages old, tried and tested toasted bread (recicyling fresh bread gone stale) with pectine based fruit marmelades. Sugar indeed, but usually less stabilizers and colorants and more control on the sugar intake..not mentioning much much more variety of tastes.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:08:39 -0800

You could say that Twinkies and the like represent the worst qualities of Americans, like gluttony, disregard for health, greed, garish commercialism, and you'd have a point. But they could also be said to represent our best traits: exuberance, lust for life, raw energy and sensuality. Obviously there's room for twinkies, italian pastry (which I was raised on as well), and oranges & carrot sticks in our cultural palette.

By: gesamtkunstwerk

gesamtkunstwerk — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:10:37 -0800

Damn you elpapacito. I can't stop drooling.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:23:42 -0800

Hmm, twinkies don't appeal to me, nor do almost any of the other hostess stuff. Too sugary without other flavors. I don't object to the sugary part, just the plainness part. God, I love a good chocolate cake. And fudge. And key lime pie. Cherry pie. Hot apple pie and ice cream. Desserts are goood.

By: liam

liam — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:28:32 -0800

...they could also be said to represent our best traits: exuberance, lust for life, raw energy and sensuality. Using the words 'lust', 'exuberant' and 'energy' to describe a twinkie constitute a matter of taste, I guess, but 'life', 'raw' and 'sensual' are just delusional.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:03:52 -0800

uhhhhhhh ... i just got diabetes from looking at that cake ... thanks adrober

By: iamck

iamck — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:06:08 -0800

From the ingredients: 24. CaSO4, Calcium Sulfate Class: Sulfates Uses: in the manufacture of some cement, a source of sulfate for sulfuric acid. Anhydrite is a relatively common sedimentary mineral that forms massive rock layers. Anhydrite does not form directly, but is the result of the dewatering of the rock forming mineral Gypsum (CaSO4-2H2O). (Also called Plaster of Paris) Hmmm...cementy goodness.

By: fleener

fleener — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:42:21 -0800

I'm not supposed to get married because the poster hates Phil and Pam? I hate brussel sprouts, so you are prohibited from eating at Burger King. There. Now we're even.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:17:19 -0800

I have never eaten a Twinkie, and I hope to never eat a Twinkie.

By: Dick Paris

Dick Paris — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:32:24 -0800

I'm a Ho-Ho man myself. *blinks* Does that sound bad?

By: Dick Paris

Dick Paris — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:36:55 -0800

The format is little different than a croque en bouche.

By: LittleMissCranky

LittleMissCranky — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:41:22 -0800

No twinkie discussion is complete without a mention of the contribution to science made by fine young men at my alma mater.

By: Latitude11

Latitude11 — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 22:54:29 -0800

Hmm.. now I have the munchies...

By: Satapher

Satapher — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:20:04 -0800

homer