Crossword clues for twinkie
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snack food, supposedly invented and named 1930 by Jimmy Dewar, baker for the Chicago branch of Continental Baking Co. (later Hostess); said to have been inspired by twinkle.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative case form of Twinkie English) 2 An actor or actress who is considered to be no more than eye candy
Wikipedia
A Twinkie is an American snack cake, marketed as a "Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling." It was formerly made and distributed by Hostess Brands. The brand is currently owned by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos and Company as the second incarnation of Hostess Brands. During bankruptcy proceedings, Twinkie production was suspended on November 21, 2012, and resumed after an absence of several weeks from American store shelves, becoming available again nationwide on July 15, 2013.
Twinkies are produced in Canada by Saputo Incorporated's Vachon Inc. (at a bakery in Montreal) which owns the Canadian rights to the product and were still available during the absence in the U.S. market. Twinkies are also available in Mexican stores as "Submarinos" and "Twinkies" made by Marinela, and as "Tuinky" made by Wonder; both Marinela and Wonder are subsidiaries of Mexican bread company Grupo Bimbo. In Egypt, which does not permit imports of the snack cake from other countries, Twinkies are produced under the company Edita. Twinkies are also available in the United Kingdom under the Hostess brand name and sold in Sainsburys, Tesco, ASDA and B&M stores.
Twinkie is a racial pejorative used by most American Indians to refer to a European American, with little or no social or blood links to any tribe, who claims to be an American Indian. Particularly applies to those who claim to be shaman, healers, or other prominent respected positions in Indian culture. They try to incorporate New Age ideas such as "Energy Healing", "Atlantis" and Tantric sex into a fanciful Native American spirituality.
Twinkieism is seen by many as an example of cultural appropriation. Used this way it is a humorous comment and not a racial slur. Natives who fall for New Age falsehoods may also be teased as being "twinkies."
Another use of Twinkie can be in describing an Asian American who has become completely integrated into White American, or mainstream American culture, thus losing their traditional Asian values. A reference to "Twinkie" can be seen in the 2004 film Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, where Harold, a Korean American, is referred to as a "Twinkie." This term is derived from the traditional metaphor Banana and means "yellow on the outside, white on the inside."
A Twinkie is a popular snack. It may also refer to:
- Twinkie Clark, a musician
- Twinkie (slur), used by Native Americans to refer to a European American who claims to be a Native American
- Twinkie the Kid, the snack's mascot
- Twinkie defense, a legal defense
- The Twinkies, a nickname for the Minnesota Twins
Usage examples of "twinkie".
Twinkie lay on the greasy paper sack that had contained her liverwurst sandwich.
He had been buying Hostess Twinkies at a convenience store two blocks away and feeling very sorry for himself.
There were crumbled cellophane wrappers from Twinkies and some empty Sugar Pops boxes, some tattered clothes, torn comic books, but otherwise nothing.
And besides, they had a fierce yellow sun and a case of Budweiser and potato chips and Cheez Whiz and Twinkies and the restless Atlantic Ocean.
On the table are more stacks of dirty dishes, a squeeze-bottle of mustard, sprays of crumbs (there's a Van Halen cassette lying in one of these), an aerosol can of whipped cream, two bottles of catsup, one mostly empty and one mostly full, open pizza boxes littered with crusts, bread-wrappers, Twinkies wrappers, and a Doritos bag pulled down over an empty Pepsi bottle like a weird condom.
He rose early, made coffee, and found four Twinkies abandoned in his otherwise empty bread box to round out his breakfast.
Twinkie did buddy up to quite a few sorority girls, and one of them might have asked her to track down that license plate number .
There would be time to eat as many Twinkies and Ring-Dings and Devil Dogs as he could get his hands on, and time to sit on the back porch reading Lucky Starr and the Moons of Mercury.
When Hugh did our shopping he invariably brought back a variety of Ding Dongs, Pinwheels, Twinkies, and other sweets for her.
He Who Walks like Cougar at Night called people over to hear the funny name, and after they all had a good laugh, they loaded the network truck with frozen dinners and shrimp bottled in their own cocktail sauce and Captain Crunch sugar-coated cereal, and seven cases of Twinkies.
If a few laughs would bring Twinkie back to earth, I'd go out and buy joke books by the dozen.
It's just that I've been majoring in Twinkie for the past several years.
Can you imagine me in one of those tent dresses, stuffing Twinkies down my throat and belching like a sow in heat?
She was one tough cookie sometimes, but that's probably what Twinkie needed.
Now the egg was gone, the tuna fish sandwich was gone, the chips were gone, and the Twinkies were gone.