TWINKIES IN TROUBLE
What is the world coming to? "Interstate Bakeries Corp., the maker of lunch box staples Wonder Bread and Twinkies, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday after months of financial turmoil brought on in part by the low-carb craze."

A few years ago I bought a package of Twinkies because I had forgotten what they taste like. I took a bite and realized I hadn't just forgotten their taste but I had actually done the work to repress that taste. Still, the very idea that the staple of my junior high diet is in a dive because of some carnivorous diet fade is troubling.

And what about Wonder Bread? My mother never bought the stuff because she considered it to be over-priced balloon bread. But the commercials were constants with the afternoon reruns of I Dream of Jeannie and My Favorite Martian. I have entertained the possibility that if she had made better bread choices I would look a lot more like Governor Arnold. For as we all know "Wonder Bread helps build bodies in 12 ways." Lost opportunities of youth. Lost youth. Good grief.