{"id":425,"date":"2008-09-04T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-30T12:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T17:21:48","slug":"twinkie-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2008\/09\/04\/twinkie-longevity\/","title":{"rendered":"twinkie longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/09\/04\/twinkie.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" title=\"Twinkie\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/twinkie.jpg\" alt=\"Twinkie\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I was wondering on my <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.to\/php\">Facebook<\/a> just how long a Twinkie would last, and low and behold Toddie Peters (author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.witherspoonsociety.org\/2005\/peters_on_globalization.htm\">In Search of the Good Life: The Ethics of Globalization<\/a>, which only tangentially relates to junk food) provided one answer!<\/p>\n<p>NPR ran a story called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4780900\">The Shelf Life of a Vintage Twinkie<\/a>&#8221; a few years back. You can listen to the 4-1\/2 minute interview with Michele Norris, a retired science teacher at George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, Maine. Michele tells about a food<br \/>\npreservation experiment he began 30 years ago. He and students set out to determine the shelf life of a Hostess Twinkie.<\/p>\n<p>Scary? 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