- Zip to open.
Are they gonna be soft or hard?
I don't think we should eat this, I don't think it's safe.
(suspenseful music)
In front of us we have two sets of Twinkies.
One of them is from this year and one of them is from 2012,
which is the year the Twinkies and Hostess went bankrupt.
- Wait, really?
- The Twinkies was going away,
like everybody thought Twinkies were dead forever.
- Really?
- And so a bunch of people rushed to the stores
and bought out all the Twinkies and they held on to them
for a long time, and now they're selling them.
- Is that why they're still in business?
- It's because a private equity fund.
Some people came in and bought it for dirt cheap
and laid off tons of the employees.
I think they had 8,000 employees
and now they only have 1200.
And they were able to cut costs to get--
- Like even now?
- Right now, and they've got like robots running things.
I mean I don't know during this Coronavirus
time of thing if they have 1200.
But it is a food item
and people are probably stocking up on it.
Because some people say these are indestructible.
But how indestructible are the Twinkies really?
- Oh, stop it.
- We have some Shrek Twinkies.
- [Lincoln] Don't those look nasty though
with the green in the middle?
- Ogre green cream filling, same great taste apparently.
This is from the Shrek 2 DVD launch in 2004.
(Lincoln whispers)
That's about 16 years ago, these have never been open.
This box is the old one from 2012.
This is the new one.
Take a look at the differences in the boxes,
it's really not that much difference.
- I wonder if this is like there mascot little guy?
Because they kind of look the same, like little cowboys.
- Why do they have the cowboy hat on?
Twinkies actually started in 1930,
which is the year after the great depression started.
Some are saying that what we're in right now
is potentially a depression.
Maybe it's a short depression,
maybe not as long as the four-year depression in 1929.
Who knows what good businesses are gonna come out
of this downturn in the economy right now.
We got Twinkies back in 1930,
we're gonna get some pretty great things
I think in 2020 or 2021.
- Wait, is there like an expired date on these?
- They're really weird,
technically like the shelf life is 25 days.
But what we need to see is
how hard these are after the many years.
- It says February 22, but that could've been like--
- There's no years.
- That could've been like five years ago.
- I bet that was five years ago.
(upbeat music)
All right so, how hard is this going to be?
Is there going to be filling inside of it?
These are the fresh ones, these are from today.
- Oh no, this one has the actual date, 2020.
- Ooh, that one says-- - May 29, 2020.
- There's a Twinkies if you haven't had one before.
- You should go get one.
Hostess has really good products like these are really good.
- It's not Hostess.
- What is it Hostess?
- It's Hostess. - Hostess.
- He always says Hostess.
- These ones are really good, this is not an advertisement.
- Oh yeah, the disclaimer.
- I just really love eating these.
- Good disclaimer.
- Those are like cupcake kind of things.
- I guess they are cupcakes.
These are Ding Dongs, those are good.
These are Ho-Ho's, those are super good.
Donuts, those are really good.
These I think are called Zingers.
I know my pastries.
- Yeah, I'm really shocked.
You named everyone.
- I'm gonna open this up just a little bit.
So I can squish it.
- Nasty!
- That's not nasty.
That's a goodie.
That does look kind of gross.
I think we go down to 2012.
These are the ones that came out of bankruptcy.
Oh by the way, I was doing some research
and found out a really funny thing.
You know how YouTube has a whole thing
about advertising to kids.
And that people can't be advertised to kids.
Well Twinkies back in 1930 or 1940 came out
with a foreign advertisement
that is just advertising to kids.
- [Narrator] So kids, you ask Mom
to buy some Hostess Twinkies
the next time she goes to the store.
- That's advertising towards kids right there.
- They totally did that.
Zip to open.
Are they gonna be soft or hard?
- They're still gonna be soft.
- Okay here we go.
Oh!
- It's a bit smaller.
- It looks smaller.
- I can't touch it yet.
- Touch it. - I can't touch it yet.
- Do it. - Okay.
(Dad laughs) That's rock hard.
- Here you go, this is the ultimate drop test.
- This is the drop test.
- If you want to you could close your eyes
and just listen to the sound.
Here's Twinkies number one.
(hard thud) (Both laugh)
Here's Twinkies number two.
(soft thud)
(Dad laughs) - Oh my gosh!
(dramatic music)
- Oh! - Oh my God, I got it.
- Okay what is the cream like?
(Dad laughs)
All right, this video is getting a little weird.
It's time for the Shrek Twinkies.
This box has never been opened
since it was first made in 2004.
(Lincoln laughs) (Dad coughs)
Smells like a grandma's house.
- Whoa!
- The green is coming out of the side of it.
Look underneath it, you can see the green.
Just for comparison sake.
- New and old.
- Okay Shrek.
- Aww, it's gonna be so nasty.
Oh!
- It broke pretty easily.
Oh, that is gross.
It does look a bit moldy but it's not moldy
it's just the green Shrek, it least not that we think.
The question is like how safe is it to eat it?
Because there's potential that some sort of bacteria
got in there over the years.
They definitely, (hard pounding with Twinkies)
don't hold up like you would think.
I could use it for a hammer. (hard pounding)
- This one's harder I feel like.
- This one from today is like.
(cake smooshing)
- No stop it, stop it, that's nasty this is nasty.
- Like a durability test,
is like gherri rig everything that is Twinkies.
And the Twinkies just doesn't have
any of that structural integrity stuff.
All right Shrek.
Oh, it looks so bad.
- Topping looks terrible.
- I wonder how many of these they actually sold.
Maybe this is the reason why they went bankrupt.
Ten years later they're like,
you know when we made those Shrek Twinkies
it just really set us back.
- It was all downhill from there.
- People didn't realize that we made it green inside
and they just thought they were moldy
and they never came back and ate them again.
It smells so bad.
No, I can't do it.
I can't do it.
I don't think we should eat this.
I don't think it's safe.
There's enough dangerous things in the world right now
that I'm worried about.
I don't need to go to the hospital.
- What did you eat lately?
2004, Shrek Twinkies, that were very green.
You don't want to eat a cake at your house
that's been sitting there for two months right.
- Yeah, so don't eat a Twinkies
that's been sitting around for 16 years.
Shrek 2 The Movie maybe the greatest movie of all time,
but Shrek 2 Twinkies are not
the greatest Twinkies of all time.
- Yeah, Shrek 1 was better.
- I just said Shrek 2 was the best.
- No, but Shrek 1's better.
- Oh, I don't know about that.
Let me know in the comments which one is better.
So we've been making a few food related videos lately,
just because we are at home
and that's kind of a fun thing to do.
Our last fun thing we did was the marshmallow puffs,
which were really good.
And we did a little trick shot in there
that worked out pretty darn good, I must say.
So Lincoln, let's do some trick shots.
- If we drop this though, it's gonna be bad.
- Okay don't drop it.
(loud thump)
Dropped it, try again.
(loud thump) (Dad laughs)
It's not gonna work.
(whistling)
- Stuck to my fingers.
(dramatic music)
- I got it, I got it, it's on my face!
- Thank you for watching this very strange Shrek
and very old Twinkies.
We did a drop test that was really cool
and a durability test.
What else?
- There's your unboxing of 16 year old Twinkies.
We do weird stuff here sometimes,
and this is the idea we had to do today.
So thank you for watching, this is what happens
when we're quarantined for weeks and weeks and weeks.
- We have more weird stuff coming.
- We got some good stuff coming too, that's not as weird.
- Yeah, weird good stuff.
- Unless you like Shrek.
Has anybody ever actually eaten these
that's watching these videos and enjoyed it?
What was it like 16 years ago?
Lincoln do you remember?
- No, I wasn't alive.
- He wasn't alive.
- A piece of cake right there, pretty cool.
- This video was a piece of cake.
- Except for the trick shot.
That was a piece of old cake.
- This is an advertisement for Hostess by Lincoln.
- That's pretty good.
- Not to be affiliated with Hostess.