Freeze Dried Twinkie Cake Bites (A Taste Of The States) By @Cinabar

There is so much I don’t get about this product, including its concept, but I’ll try and start from the beginning. Ok, I’ll start slightly from the side, bare with me for a minute. If you have ever watched Zombieland, one of the main characters spends some of his time in a zombie apocalypse searching for the last Twinkies on earth (it is a comedy) while fighting zombies. Twinkies are an American sponge finger with vanilla cream. They do have limited editions and they are easier to find in the UK than they used to be. The running joke in the film Zombieland is that Twinkies last forever. They don’t, of course, as in real life, they have use by dates. Perhaps this is why they have tried freeze drying them, to make them last longer, and this is the result?

These Freeze Dried Twinkie Cake Bites look a little bit home made, but who has a freezer dryer in their kitchen? It is one Twinkie sliced, dried and popped into a resealable bag. I haven’t eaten much freeze-dried food but what we have tried has the same feature, the items are very dry and lightly crunchy, slightly rehydrating when you chew them. I guess it is like the freeze-dried strawberries you get in cereals, if you try them before the milk hits.

I took one of the slices of the Freeze Dried Twinkie Cake Bites out, gave it a try, and it had a weird texture. It was both a little dry and still wet enough to be chewy. That was not what I was expecting. I got stuck on the idea that the texture was wrong and it stopped me enjoying the product. I didn’t like the texture. This is the second time I’ve tried something where the texture has put me off, the other being the ready-made pancakes, despite me usually loving weird or interesting textures in food. I worry me not liking this might just be me, but it really is not something I’d buy again. I’ll take a fresh Twinkie any day over this.