"According to Hostess, it takes forty-five seconds to explode a Twinkie in a microwave."

I went looking for microwave fun on Snopes.com (one of the urban legends sites) and found this gem (after not finding anything pertinent to this topic right away). The Urban Legend had to do with the twinkie's shelf life, the above statement was at the end the article.
[url=http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/twinkies.htm:7629c]http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/twinkies.htm[/url:7629c]


[This message has been edited by Bill Blake (edited 25 April 2005).]