Chocolate Twinkies
During Mardi Gras Sonya and I were pushing the stroller straight up St. Mary to St. Charles to watch the parades. It was an easy couple of blocks from our apartment. A bonus with this location was that there's a Walgreen's right across the street so if you need a snack or a pack of smokes or some diapers it's all right there.
(And why this particular Walgreen's doesn't sell booze - at least during Mardi Gras - is beyond me. They could make a killing. But no Walgreen's sells booze, right? Except for the one in my home town. The one in West Memphis has a fully stocked liquor store with one of the best beer selections in the mid-south. Seriously, it's a great liquor store. I haven't seen this phenomena repeated in any of my travels.)
So during one parade Sonya goes across the street to get some stuff. She came back grinning.
"You're not going to believe what they have for sale over there," and she hands me a bag.
Inside the bag are Chocolate Twinkies! Just like regular Twinkies, but the cake is chocolate, not yellow! It's like a Hostess Ding Dong (or King Don or, as my family used to unfortunately pronounce it, King Dong) or Cupcake without the chocolate icing, and shaped like a Twinkie. They were delicious parade food and went splendidly with beer.
But here's the thing. I've kept an eye out for Chocolate Twinkies since then and they are nowhere. Not at other Walgreen's, and not at that one. Not at any grocery store or convenience store I've been to.
Have you seen the Chocolate Twinkies? Do you know where I can get some?
6 Comments:
oh, the walgreens in chicago sell liquor. chocolate twinkies, though....that i can't help you with.
So what's the deal with Walgreen's, then? They sell booze in Illinois and Arkansas, but not Tennessee and Louisiana? Hell, churches sell booze in Louisiana. Is Walgreen's dumb?
yeah, i don't know -- i looked at their website and didn't see anything about it. i remember the walgreen's liquor store on the south side of chicago being great too. although maybe that was just because they sold giant bottles of cheap rum to 18-year-olds.
Fresh Chocodiles sells something a whole lot better than a Chocolate Twinkie, they've got Chocodiles -- yum, enjoy!
I thought I was the only one who remembers chocolat twinkies.
My experience with chocolate twinkies goes back to the early to mid '70s and they were filled with the original butter cream centers that twinkies used to have.
They were not any lame brand knock offs like my friends claim.
I can't believe what i'm reading! There are actually others that remember Chocolate Twinkies.
I dont think that it was butter cream centers. I do believe it was Crisco or the like but they were sooo good. They had so much more flavor than the current fluffy #@*& centers. OK OK so I still eat some on occaision for old times sake and they are not too bad but they are only shadows of their former selves.
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