According to The Elementary School Rumor Mill, only two things were ever going to survive a nuclear war: cockroaches and Twinkies. With a legendary shelf-life nearing that of plutonium, acquiring Twinkies was often a goal on any apocalyptic survivalist's To Do List. Case in point:
In the zombie survival movie Zombieland, Tallahassee has one goal in life after the apocalypse: to find and eat a single Twinkie. This quest of his takes he and Columbus to an abandoned Hostess truck by the side of the road; to a supermarket (where they meet Little Rock and Wichita for the first time); to a (sadly empty) Deep-Fried Twinkies booth at Pacific Playland. At the end of the movie, Tallahassee gets his Twinkie, leading to Rule 32: Enjoy the Little Things.Apparently, store shelves have been laid bare upon the news, so if you haven't had a Twinkie in a while, you probably missed your chance. And there won't be any after the End of the World either.
(And truth be told, I'm a Zingers man anyway.)
I thought that there were Twinkies in the booth, but Columbus had shot them? I guess I have to rewatch the movie yet again, or at least that scene.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct. I just remembered that the booth didn't pan out "Twinkie-wise," but I had forgotten they were destroyed rather than empty.
DeleteWhy do people think Twinkies are long-lived? They aren't, the filling is sweetened and flavored hydrogenated beef-fat.
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Twinkies are (and will still) be available in Canada. Maybe I should become a Twinkie-runner (Twinkie Mule?) and work my way up to Cake Lord. First you get the Twinkies, then you get the power, then you get THE WOMEN!
ReplyDeleteWall E used Twinkies to feed Hal, his pet cockroach.
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