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The Song Challenge:   I Want My Twinkie And I Want It Now! -- Biddeford, Maine, March 23 - Last week, panic began to spread through the Northwest United States as workers dumped loaves of bread off a loading dock during a strike at the Interstate Bakeries Corp.   Why the bother?   This strike of truck drivers prevented the delivery of Wonder Bread and other products, such as Twinkies, across the Northwest US. Wonder Bread, as every good American child knows, is that wonderful, sweet, doughy white bread that one can either ingest or, with a little spit or milk, make funny molded shapes with.   When hardened, it makes fantastic projectiles for peashooters.   Generations of American children grew up eating this bread, before the advent of wheat bread into a more health-conscious market.   But the real panic was due to the shortage of Twinkies - the one food product that has been guaranteed by experts to survive a nuclear blast.   An oblong, tan, mushy, cream-filled pastry so sweet that it has been known to rot teeth merely by being looked at, it is lusted after by all children and adults needing a quick sugar fix, and has been popular in the US for years, often imitated but never replaced in the soul of the country.   To the relief of these Twinkie-deprived folks, the eight-day strike ended last Thursday.   'Right now, it sounds like everyone is going to get their Twinkies.' said Robert Piccone, president of Teamsters Local 340.   Because of the strike, the company's Biddeford plant was shut down, putting 400 bakers out of work.   On the picket line in Biddeford, where the drivers had put up a banner that said "Fort Twinkie" at their tarp-covered shelter, a cheer was raised when they heard the news that the strike was over .


Star Treat by Bradypus

Bradypus' Comment:  This cross-cultural stuff is difficult.  If the following is miles off beam, let me know.   Never having seen a Twinkie, I'm flying blind on the original description.   To start with I thought it was a chocolate (candy) bar of some sort.   This was partly due to a playground song from my daughters: 

Twinkle, Twinkle, chocolate bar
What you say is what you are
If you say it back to me
You look like a chimpanzee
Twinkle, Twinkle, chocolate bar
What you say is what you are

Well, with that background, what else could I do ...


Twinkie, Twinkie, what a treat
What I always long to eat
Oblong, tan, with luscious filling
To eat you I'm always willing
Twinkie, Twinkie, lovely snack
To eat behind the dentist's back

Twinkie, Twinkie, creamy food
Always looks and tastes so good
Eat a Twinkie, dream of fairies
Who cares about dental caries
Twinkie, Twinkie, cream and goo
How I long to eat up you

When the truckers went on strike
I couldn't get the treat I like
Had to put my lust on hold
For the treat that's pure as gold
Twinkie, Twinkie, now you're back
I can have my favourite snack

Twinkie, Twinkie, what a treat
What I always long to eat
Oblong, tan with luscious filling
And you keep the dentist drilling
When I'm big, I still will think
How delicious was my twink!

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