A very Twinkie Thanksgiving

This is what a turkey looks like after it has been stuffed with cubed, toasted Twinkie cake and glazed with a mixture of Twinkie filling and honey. Chow's Joyce Slayton did this, following a recipe in a 2006 Twinkie cookbook. She describes the smell as "like a turkey being roasted in a cupcake-scented Yankee Candle." *shudder*

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zomg do not want.
Rory Barr

Does anyone else see a cross between a Predator and a facehugger when they look at this?
- Douglass
  
  I thought it looked like a prop from a David Cronenberg movie.
  
  Long live the new flesh?
- graou
  
  No (not me at least). I just see an ugly turkey.
http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood

Just release the nukes. We’re done here.
GawainLavers

Will it last on the shelf for seven years now?
http://twitter.com/JosephFinn Joseph

I can feel my arteries exploding just from looking at it.
davidsfp

Pretty disgusting.

Now– if they wrapped it in bacon . . . .
http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

Recoiling in horror.
http://evilchickenscratch.blogspot.com/ E. Chicken

No thanks.
L_Mariachi

She needs to go make some serious penance to the Turkey God. Come to think of it, Twinkie the Kid isn’t going to be too happy about it either.
GlenBlank

The recipe, BTW, is from the official Hostess-published Twinkies Cookbook, and can be viewed in all its horrid glory by following the above link to Amazon and using the “Search Inside This Book” feature to search for “Twinkling Turkey”.
tsa

Amazing. It looks horrible already and it hasn’t even been cooked yet.
- http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi
  
  It has been cooked, the whiteness is as a result of the twinkie “cream” basting.
  
  That has got to be one of the most disturbing recipes I’ve ever read. A funny post regarding it though!
  
  “Motor oil!” yelped my husband. “Will you open a window?”