Do twinkies and cockroaches really last forever?
I’m sure we’ve all heard that whole rumor about twinkies and how they never will disintegrate. I’m also sure that we have heard about how cockroaches can survive anything. (I bet they haven’t eaten my cafeteria food, though.) I know that they can die of natural causes, however.
Is there any truth in any of this?
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Snopes on Twinkies
“Twinkies have a shelf life of twenty-five days, not seven years, and certainly not fifty years.”
Fruit flies can withstand more radiation than even cockroaches, though the roach can withstand 6–15X more radiation than we can, becuase they don’t divide their cells as we do. (Scroll down to “Hardiness”)
Anyway, I always thought it was supposed to be Cher/Keith Richards and cockroaches. Eh, about the same.
No, cockroaches are just amazingly resilient. However, McD’s hamburgers just might be able to.
No single cockroach lasts forever, but they do recreate on a forever basis. The Twinkies thing is debunked.
Neither lasts forever, but if a cockroach eats a Twinkie, the cockroach becomes immortal and the Twinkie is preserved forever in the cockroach’s body. For that reason, people with cockroaches should not buy Twinkies until they exterminate the bugs first.
I don’t know about twinkies but McDonalds don’t age. I’ve seen it with my own 2 eyes. Sad
The definition of eternity is “two people and a ham.”
Ever wonder if you fed roaches twinkies, would they also live longer? Could you have a 100 year old roach that is still soft in the middle. LOL
I’m sure if you dropped a nuclear bomb on twinkies they will no longer be edible, where as the roach will find a way to survive.
@Pandora common misconception, the roach can survive the fallout, but not the blast. So if you’re talking about surviving the fallout, the twinkies will still be edible, it’d just be a bad idea, like drinking water downriver from the explosion.
@Winters I was talking about the fall out. Figured the twinkies would be radiated and so not edible.
Roaches don’t care if they are radiated. And will probably still be able to multiply. But if one ate enough twinkies could it be packed with so much perservatives that it will live longer?
That is if the saying is true. You are what you eat.
Apparently, you can microwave cockroaches and not kill them.
@AmWiser, I think there are some pretty obvious flaws and discrepancies in that photo study by Sally Davies you linked to.
An independent tester attempted to recreate the McDonald’s burger and fries longevity experiment. The results were quite the opposite of what Ms. Davies reported with the food items disappearing completely in just a matter of hours.
Roaches get slower and die of old age, don’t they?
Of course they don’t they both can die/desintigrate
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