Twinkies Now Boarding Qantas Airlines for Australia Gate 56-A

Not long ago, I was in Hawaii and there were two women buying up all the Twinkies at the local grocery store. They were headed back to Australia and they said that Twinkies were no longer available in Australia ever since Hostess filed bankruptcy. They were going to take back what looked like some 40 boxes of Twinkies with them from their vacation. Wow, apparently this desert type food has a global reach. Let's go ahead and talk about this for a moment shall we?

Now then, for frequent flyers on a good many airline you are allowed to take an extra suitcase back, and that makes sense, and really 40 boxes of Twinkies doesn't weigh that much, so it won't affect the aircraft's performance, as it would if you were taking say 40 boxes of gold bars home with you. Nevertheless, it might be interesting trying to get them through customs. What if they decided to confiscate them? And if you think about it, the TSA employees could just put those 40 boxes in their break room - I mean to say; they'd have desserts for lunch for quite a while.

What if those Twinkies got smashed? What if the suitcase got smashed? Would there be white cream oozing out of the baggage? I wonder what Twinkies look like on a scanner? Would that cause a TSA employee to open the boxes, just to make sure that they were actually the former Hostess treats, and not some sort of sneaky cargo loaded onto the plane by an evil doer?

And really, it's quite interesting isn't it? No one really paid much attention to Twinkies, until one day they weren't available, and then there was a run on the market, you couldn't find Twinkies on the shelf of any grocery store, and people were selling them for large sums of money on eBay as soon as they were no longer being made.

Of course, like any food item Twinkies have a shelf life. It's hard to say if those Hostess look-alikes ever made it all the way back to Australia in a lady's luggage. I guess I would've given it a 50-50 chance. That night I found myself amused with the thought of hearing something on the loudspeaker out at the airport;

"Twinkies now boarding Qantas Airlines for Australia gate number 56-A," and then I thought how wonderful it was that the world was so connected that as soon as Twinkies became available in one part of the world, they quickly made it to all the rest. Thank god for modern airline travel, even if humans use it for silly things. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative eBook on Airliner Travel. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net