{"id":17264,"date":"2014-07-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=17264"},"modified":"2020-12-28T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T05:18:06","slug":"review-hostess-limited-edition-extreme-creme-blue-raspberry-twinkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/23\/review-hostess-limited-edition-extreme-creme-blue-raspberry-twinkies\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Hostess Limited Edition Extreme Creme Blue Raspberry Twinkies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hostess<\/a><\/p>\n

Maybe mutants are a problem. Hey, I know, it\u2019s easy to love the X-Men. Wolverine\u2014so cool! Beast\u2014so smart! Storm\u2014so strong! Yeah, yeah, we get it. Being a mutant represents being different. It doesn’t matter what your race, creed, religion, sports team, Sex in the City archetype or toilet paper roll orientation is. We need to accept everyone. And we do! (Even though “under” is so the wrong way.) <\/p>\n

We love the X-Men. That\u2019s the central theme of the X-Men. But it\u2019s never really challenged. In the Marvel Universe it never seems reasonable as a reader to hate or fear mutants. The human beings in that world\u2014the mutant haters\u2014seem insane, uncool and scared. Living in the time we do now, it\u2019s tough to relate to building an explicit case against others just because they are different. That is, until Hostess Extreme Creme Twinkies Blue Raspberry.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get down to it. This stuff is outwardly ugly. Not just Eric Stoltz in Mask ugly, but\u2026well, okay, Eric Stoltz in Mask ugly. It\u2019s a Twinkie with blue cream inside. This blue cream soaks through the undercarriage of the Twinkie and combines with the yellow cake to make a spotty, dark spinach green color. Frankly, it looks moldy. <\/p>\n

\"Hostess<\/a><\/p>\n

The color of the actual cream inside is like Play-Doh or a racquetball court or a poisonous frog. This is gag reflex ugly. I had a visceral reaction the first time I turned one over, tossing it quickly from my hand like it had cooties. <\/p>\n

Regular Twinkies with white cream don\u2019t look like this. Is it because the white cream doesn\u2019t show up against the yellow that it doesn\u2019t look like an oblong cupcake drizzled with melted crayon? Why does this one look so weird? It looks gross. And thus begins the line of thinking that might end up writing discriminatory anti-blue Twinkie legislation, or an anti-blue Twinkie military task force. The Twinkie work camps would be filled with small Hostess baked goods and the Blue Man Group and a chubby Blue Ivy, with all the cakes she could ever want. They hammer out license plates to that Eiffel 65 song.<\/p>\n

If it tastes good, though, forget it. All is forgiven. I\u2019ll eat a steak that looks like Eric Stoltz in Mask if it\u2019s not overcooked. Actually I\u2019d prefer it. A steak that resembles a \u201cnormal\u201d human face would be considerably smaller. So do blue Twinkies taste good? No. Well, they\u2019re fine. Thing is, they are blue raspberry flavor. And blue raspberry has this lip curling, wooden, sour taste with a note of bitterness at the end. Certainly that sounds interesting, if not appealing. <\/p>\n

But are we eating interesting things here? Are we at a Thomas Keller restaurant in search of a tastefully balanced, nine-course meal designed to tantalize and expand the notion of food and eating in general? Pretty sure we\u2019re eating a piece of sugar stuck into another thing full of sugar. <\/p>\n

\"Hostess<\/a><\/p>\n

The cream is not pleasant at first. After the inaugural bite I grimaced like a kid being told I would have to buy all the X-Universe comic books that summer because of some dumb crossover. (Age of Apocalypse excepted.) The amount of sugar doesn\u2019t counter balance or round out the blue raspberry flavoring, so that\u2019s pretty much what you\u2019re getting all up in your mouth. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty different from the fluffy sweetness you get from a regular Twinkie. After you know what\u2019s coming a second taste is easier and after a third, the uniqueness is almost admirable. That first impression, though, is a doozy because it\u2019s so different. I imagine I would feel that way if I saw a human being covered in blue fur with a cat face and Frasier\u2019s voice too. Or eating some tossed salad and scrambled eggs.<\/p>\n

They look gross, they taste kinda gross, but to be fair that\u2019s because we aren\u2019t used to them yet. It\u2019s tough, because it\u2019s both disgusting yet a little cool that we as human beings are so comfortable just eating stuff that are colors that don\u2019t really exist as food in nature. We should all be a little more accepting, and blue Twinkies are the first step. <\/p>\n

Keep in mind, however, Extreme Creme Blue Raspberry Twinkies are not a cool X-Man. They are not Nightcrawler or Blink or Psylocke or anyone undeniably compelling and powerful. They\u2019re more like that kid Cypher who could read fast or Dazzler or that guy in the third movie with spikes coming out of his face. Okay. I got it. Regular Twinkies are comforting and these blue ones are strange. Not necessarily bad, but definitely strange. <\/p>\n

Twinkies are handsome Eric Stoltz, and blue Twinkies are Eric Stoltz in Mask. He could\u2019ve be an X-Man, by the way, if the guy with spikes in his face is one. Buy up Mask and reboot it already, Marvel. This new movie has a talking tree. Give me a break.<\/p>\n

Roll credits for this review. Fade to black. Nick Fury comes out of nowhere and asks Eric Stoltz in Mask to join the Avengers. He hands Nick Fury a blue Twinkie. Nick Fury eats it, spits it out. Thomas Keller picks it up, adds it to menu at Per Se. They all retract spikes from their faces and laugh. <\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 2 cakes – 270 calories, 80 calories from fat, 9 grams of fat, 35 grams of cholesterol, 370 milligrams of sodium, 46 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fiber, 32 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> Hostess Limited Edition Extreme Creme Blue Raspberry Twinkies
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $3.59
\nSize:<\/b> 10 count
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Walmart
\nRating:<\/b> 4 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> After first taste, serves as a unique change of pace from regular Twinkies.
\nCons:<\/b> Twinkies are comfort food, and this isn\u2019t comforting. Blue food is unsettling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe mutants are a problem. Hey, I know, it\u2019s easy to love the X-Men. Wolverine\u2014so cool! Beast\u2014so smart! Storm\u2014so strong! Yeah, yeah, we get it. Being a mutant represents being different. It doesn’t matter what your race, creed, religion, sports team, Sex in the City archetype or toilet paper roll orientation is. 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