We were all hunkered down around the lunch table. We were lamenting the patheticness of our various lunches. Some had boring turkey sandwiches from home. I was picking at a dish the cafeteria insisted contained chicken....I think it was closer to pigeon. And its cold and gloomy. Welcome to May in Massachusetts.
I think the best lunch at the table was a peanut butter and fluff sandwich.
In some round about way, the conversation went from marshmellow fluff, marshmellows...and finally to s'mores.
Sangeetah, a coworker and friend, said she never had a s'more. Never had a s'more?! It turns out that since Sangeetah was born and raised in India, there are several American treats she has never experienced. Such as Twinkies! Sangeetah never had a Twinkie!
Yes, they are junk food. Yes, they are soooo bad for you. Yes and unwrapped twinkie has a shelf life of 25 years. When human beings no longer walk the earth, all that will be left will be roaches and twinkies.
But I digress. The point here is that our friend will soon be leaving us to get a Ph.D in California. And we very well can't let her leave without experiencing twinkies.
That afternoon we took a Twinkie break. The Children's Programming business manager took a little walk to Stop and Shop and bough a big box of Twinkies and a big box of Hostess Cup Cakes. And Sangeetah got to experience the artificially flavored joy of a Twinkie for the first time!
Today Twinkies, tomorrow S'mores!
My Brother's wife is from Ohio and NEVER heard of a hoodsie cup!
ReplyDelete(probably because HOOD is out here) My Father and I were watching a program on how TWINKIES were made and how long they last (I haven't had one since) but they are yummy even if it is like eating Sponge Bob with a cream filling!
It sounds like you work with some great people, knowing that they didn't let her go without experiencing a TWINKIE must mean that they care but without having a SMORE is a shame!!
Nope....S'mores are in the works! We are having a "camping lunch" we are planning to have hot dogs and make smores at the lunch table! We will be using unscented candles to roast our marshmellows....or maybe the microwave...depending on how management feels about roasting marshmellows.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little, I was rarely allowed to eat Twinkies...because my mother gave up sugar. Sometimes my mother visited the day-old Hostess bread factory and bought a sh*&load of treats which she stored in an underbed box--regularly changing the hiding place because the four of us kids regularly used to find it and "steal" fruit pies, cupcakes, and yes, Twinkies. If we were "good" (a big if with four kids very close in age sharing two bedrooms), she brought out the big box after dinner, opened up the top, revealing a smorgasbord (sp?) of treats, and said "pick one." It was torture. When I moved out, I told myself I would eat Twinkies and other treats every day. I outgrew it...thank GOD, but the photo on your blog post still made my mouth water. :-)
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