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Nostalgia

Twinkies are always better in theory than they are in reality.

I was in the supermarket recently and was extremely hungry - never a good time to go shopping - and I saw a box of Twinkies. For some reason, the glory of Twinkies became paramount in my mind. Ooh, yellow cake. Ohhh, marshmallow cream center. Mmmmm, tasty goodness.

The problem is this: Twinkies were really tasty when I was ten. Now, not so much.

It's like you get a picture in your head or a sense memory of what the Twinkies experience should be. It's never going to match up to the image you have of it.

That makes me sad. I want a Twinkie from 1983.

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I'll get you a Twinkie from 1983 if you can get me a Fudgicle from 1967.

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