Proof That Twinkies Can Really Last Forever

So there was a scare awhile back that Twinkies were not going to be made anymore, then someone bought the company and they were saved! A sigh of relief for Twinkie(s) lovers everywhere. Do you buy into the whole, Twinkies will last forever? That they have an unusual ability to 'stay fresh' long past the freshness date that is listed on the side of the package? You are not alone.

A science teacher in Maine decided to set a package of Twinkies on the top of the chalkboard to see how long it would take for it to decompose. According to the teacher who started this not so scientific experiment, that was four decades ago. Yes, Roger Bennatti of the George Stevens Academy in Maine, took a unwrapped Twinkie and placed it on the top of the chalkboard as an experiment to see how long it would take to decompose. Forty years later that question, remains unanswered. The Twinkie is still in the classroom, albeit in a glass case, a little paler, but still looking very similar to when

An ongoing unscientific, four-decade experiment at George Stevens Academy in Maine is helping to feed perceptions about the shelf life of a Twinkie.  In 1976, chemistry teacher Roger Bennatti took a freshly unwrapped Twinkie and placed it on top of a chalkboard in his classroom so he and his students could see how long it would take to decompose.  The question is unanswered.  That same Twinkie now sits in a glass case, a little paler, but in its original shape.