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A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science
- Flankk 6y agoWell that definitely killed my appetite.
- flossmaster 6y agoI just flossed my teeth.
- dylan604 6y ago"That's one hell of a Twinkie." -Winston Zeddemore
- voldacar 6y agoreddit tier
- sharkweek 6y agoWas at a friend’s house in like middle school or something. Went to get a big glass of milk from the fridge after playing outside. Pour into glass, don’t pay close attention, take a big swig and my mouth fills with curdling milk that my friends mom was going to use for baking or whatever you’d use curdled milk for. Still vividly remember the texture and the taste... so disgusting.
- tempestn 6y agoReminds me of a strawberry about 10 years ago. Beautiful, big, red, unmarred strawberry. I take a bite out of it, and as I pull it away from my mouth I see that the entire inside is filled with the remaining half of a living worm, along with a great deal of what I assume were its excretions. I see this just as the taste hits me. My wife heard the noise I made from across the house and assumed I was being histrionic, but she changed her mind once she saw the remains of the strawberry! In fact I think she came closer to vomiting than I did—fortunately I was right in front of the sink, so was able to spit it out and wash out my mouth immediately... It was years before I ate another strawberry without first cutting it in half.
- asdff 6y agoHarvested some legal cannabis recently and on the advice of some forum users decided to try washing my buds. I'm damn glad I did. It was a three bucket rinse, the first with lime juice in hot water, then hot water, then cold water. I thought it was some hippy bullshit, but I had little to loose. The first bucket was just pitch black by the end of the washing. I dumped out the water straight into the toilet and soot dripped out at the end. Then I gagged when I saw probably two dozen drowned caterpillars by the end of all the washing. Who knows how much ash, pollution, and insect I've been smoking all these years.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoMy Dad used to recommend removing mold from food. Said they used to do it when he was growing up. My sister the Nurse suggested "Dad, in the old days, people used to die for no reason." So I don't eat moldy stuff any more.
- davydog187 6y agoWat.
- vosper 6y agoYeah, I don’t get it either. Unless the point is that you should completely discard the food, rather than trying to remove the moldy bit and eat the rest? People never died for no reason, though, they just didn’t understand the reason at the time. The implication is that they thought they had removed the mold and they hadn’t and so they died?
- nitrogen 6y agoThis is from the article: > Purrington, meanwhile, has reflected on his Twinkie experience. While his father had no objection to eating moldy foods, he recalls, his mother generally treated "sell-by" dates with more respect. So I assume the top-level comment is a confirming anecdote.
- vosper 6y agoThe article also says that he thought the Twinkie looked fine before he ate it. So it seems that by checking how it looked and ignoring the age of the product he was in the middle-ground between his mother (respect the sell-by date) and his father (happy to eat moldy foods) :)
- retsibsi 6y agoYes, the point is that it's often unsafe to eat a food item that has gone mouldy, even after removing the visibly mouldy bits. The implication of the "people used to die for no reason" line is that 'we always did x in the old days' isn't necessarily a good argument for the safety of x. The link between action and consequence is often obscure, especially for the class of actions that usually turn out fine.
- the_only_law 6y agoA few years ago I would commonly grab a box of snack cakes or other dessert / pastry to snack on for the night. I one time pulled a box of the store brand equivalent of swiss cake rolls and started eating. I got through a few before realize they tastes rather off and the texture was odd, checked the date and they were a few years expired. If i recall correctly they were visibly bad but not as explicitly as those twinkled. The were darker in color and somewhat deformed.
- cgriswald 6y agoI opened a can of soda once and decided to drink out of a glass with ice, which I sometimes did, but not usually. I poured it into the glass and the normally brown soda came out a transparent golden yellow. Then a dark brown muck slowly poured out of the can. None of it was carbonated and it looked like it hadn’t been mixed at all, and maybe had also gone bad. Anyway, I was really glad I decided to use a glass that day. I threw out the rest of the 12-pack and didn’t drink soda for at least a month. I also once bit into a chicken nugget from a national brand and nearly chipped a tooth on a bone. I’ve eaten a quarter of a sandwich only to discover the far corner of the slice of bread was moldy. I’ve bitten into a nearly raw chicken tender at a restaurant. I’ve had a mouth full of curdled milk. And I’ve eaten from a bowl of cereal and then realized those little red things on my milk weren’t crumbs, they were mites.
- nkoren 6y agoIt's been a long, long pandemic...
- known 6y ago"A theory must be tempered with reality" -- Nehru
- sooper 6y agoSeems like Wall-E may have been close to non-fiction than fiction.
- audiodude 6y ago"I have an extensive collection of mold, spores, and fungus."
- martyvis 6y agoI opened a glass jar of Indian carrot chilli pickles the other day. "Best before" date was July 2011. It still had the satisfying pop of the vacuum seal. The top layer was a bit discoloured and dry as I guess it was above the pickling liquid. Scooped that bit out and the rest was fine - I survived to tell the tale at least!
- Doxin 6y agoProperly preserved stuff in jars can stay good for decades without too much trouble. The tricky bit is knowing if it was preserved properly.
- gnicholas 6y agoFun fact: the owner of the Twinkies was a tenured biology professor at Swarthmore College (a top-rated liberal arts college in the US) who left his tenured position after 14 years. It is pretty rare for folks to leave tenured posts in academia, given the decent pay, extraordinary job security, and relative enjoyability of the work. https://colinpurrington.com/about/ https://colinpurrington.com/about/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nj7425-627a https://www.nature.com/articles/nj7425-627a
- flobosg 6y agoHe also mantains some great guides e.g. on scientific poster design[1] and keeping a lab notebook[2]. I remember he even tested the solvent resistance of different pen inks, but cannot find the link. EDIT: Found it in a previous version (https://web.archive.org/web/20181112011236/http://colinpurrington.com/tips/lab-notebooks https://web.archive.org/web/20181112011236/http://colinpurri...). [1]: https://colinpurrington.com/tips/poster-design/ https://colinpurrington.com/tips/poster-design/ [2]: https://colinpurrington.com/tips/lab-notebooks/ https://colinpurrington.com/tips/lab-notebooks/
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago37-year-old Twinkie, world’s oldest, still a sweet treat at Blue Hill school https://bangordailynews.com/2012/11/21/news/38-year-old-twinkie-worlds-oldest-still-a-sweet-treat-at-blue-hill-school/ https://bangordailynews.com/2012/11/21/news/38-year-old-twin...
- Dylan16807 6y agoWhat a terrible news site, and not even a picture. But anyway an important factor with that twinkie is that it has been able to dry out.
- interestica 6y agoHow does something "defy science"?
- tug0fwar 6y agoMaybe it's meant as an idiom to mention a deviation from what is available in 'science' as a domain?
- djohnston 6y agoYeah reading about the fungi makes that title even more clickbait.
- Falling3 6y agoHow so? The thing that defied explanation was the fungi, not the twinki itself.
- np_tedious 6y agoI would take that phrase to mean "has not yet been explained by science". As for this article, I am not really sure how this applies at all. Seems decently explained by "spores got in before sealing".
- interestica 6y agoYeah I think that's the thing. Science is that process of exploration...figuring it out. This is 'disturbing twinkie' and the investigation is the definition of science.
- vortico 6y agoNPR is just as bad as Buzzfeed with it's sensationalist headlines.
- munificent 6y agoNot get vaccinated and refuse to wear a mask during a pandemic?
- papandada 6y agoThis makes me think of Steve1989MREInfo on YouTube. Except he reviews military rations and has eaten ones a lot older than 2012.
- redisman 6y agoIt's great to see someone from that very niche community has become so popular today. That's a very entertaining military history lesson and Steve was always the funniest (in a very dry way).
- moron4hire 6y agoI love that channel! I was really impressed when he attempted to eat the Civil War-era hardtack.
- Zancarius 6y ago"It tastes like mothballs. Maybe because it was stored with mothballs." The amount of history that has traversed that man's stomach is incredible.
- sharksauce 6y ago"That's a big Twinkie." -- Winston Zeddemore
- js2 6y agoUNCG has a donut that's lasted over 40 years. https://news.uncg.edu/celebrating-40-years-uncg-donut/ https://news.uncg.edu/celebrating-40-years-uncg-donut/
- UncleSlacky 6y agoThe last McDonald's meal sold in Iceland is still around, 11 years later: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-50262547 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-50262547