Purrington came out of his disgusting Twinkie experience OK, with no aversion to cream-filled sponge cakes. He told his Twitter followers not only that he ran eight miles shortly afterward, but he did so to justify his plan to eat a whole box of fresh Twinkies.
Meanwhile, Purrington donated his basement Twinkies to science. Researchers at West Virginia University who had studied fungal growth in Peeps wanted to get their hands on Purrington's unintentional mad-science experiment. Two of Purrington's Twinkies looked especially ripe for research. One had a blotch on it, about the size of a quarter. The other was shrunken and gray, mummified inside of its cellophane wrapper.
The mummified Twinkie had a couple of surprises: It didn't smell bad, and it still had some soft cream filling in the center (no word on how it tasted). The fact that the wrapper was shrunk along with the mummified Twinkie suggested that whatever fungus got to that particular Twinkie was inside the sweet cake before it was sealed at the factory.
Which is all the more reason to pay attention to those expiration dates, even in mass-produced baked goods with chemical ingredients that are in there "to retain freshness" (via H-E-B). It's a lesson Purrington has learned the hard way. "I think if you're browsing baked goods at the store, if you get the freshest one, it's probably going to taste better," he told NPR.
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