Wed January 11, 2012 Science Desk Experiments With Twinkies
Originally published on Wed January 11, 2012 4:49 pm MELISSA
BLOCK, HOST: You can buy Twinkies on the cheap right now.
Safeway, just around the corner from our office here in
Washington, has them on sale - two boxes for five bucks. So the
NPR Science Desk was inspired to take part in the fine, long-
standing tradition of experimenting with Twinkies. NPR's Allison
Aubrey reports on their findings. ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: My
colleagues, Julie Rovner, our health policy correspondent, and
Adam Cole, a new addition to our team, had one idea. So, what is
your experiment, guys? JULIE ROVNER, BYLINE: All right, I think
this is the classic example of the immovable object meeting the
irresistible force. AUBREY: All right, let's hear it. ROVNER: I
want to know if you put a Twinkie into Mountain Dew, will it
dissolve. AUBREY: Aha, playing off Pepsi's claim in a recent
lawsuit that a mouse would disintegrate in Mountain Dew. ADAM
COLE, BYLINE: So we got our big tw