Another weird thing about Twinkies

[Rett Mikhal]

I was eating a package of peanut butter crackers today, and I was shocked to learn one package of six full size crackers has MORE calories AND fat than one twinkie. This means if you've downed an entire box of Ritz Peanut Butter crackers, you were better off eating six packages of twinkies.

This just blows my mind. I always imagined the twinkie as this nasty, iniquitous, body-destroying viral spongecake from spongecake hell. But apparently, Peanut Butter on a cracker is worse for you! I don't get it. How does this make ANY sense?

Twinkie Ingredients:
Pure fat
Pure sugar
More fat
More sugar
Enough preservatives to make your grave untouchable for a millennium
More fat
Sponge
Cake
Fat-based petroleum vanilla cream.

Peanut Butter Crackers:
Peanut Butter
Crackers.

I just can't feature that.

[Lissa]

You hit the key ingredient- petroleum. It's amazing how much synthetic stuff is made out of petroleum. And petroleum does not have fat, or at least not a significant amount. What we call "fat" is a series of three fatty acid chains attached to a glycerol backbone. Not a common component of petroleum, which consists mainly of alkanes and aromatic compounds (carcinogens- yay!).

Tada! Explanation granted

[Rett Mikhal]

I have no idea what you just said besides Twinkies give you cancer. Health and biology is all Greek to me.... Sometimes eggs are good... sometimes eggs are bad... sometimes the white part is MAKE UP YOUR MIND!

Lewis Black quotes aside, I'd just like to point out there is totally weight to the theory engineers are common-law retarded. I can understand vector calculus in my sleep, tell you the modulus of elasticity for steel, aluminum and glass and then tell you exactly what temperature they'd be the same length.... but when it comes to working a toaster or anything biological you might as well just read wikipedia.



This sums it up pretty well.

[optimusprime007]

Hey Boomstick Coordinator.
Have you looked at the ingredients to the crackers themselves?

OP

[Rett Mikhal]

Boomstick coordinator is just my rank. My name is Rett Mikhal. The ranks change as you get more posts.

And yes, I have. I think the majority of the calories comes from additives like sugars.