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Read the use by, sell by, or expiration dates. The sell by, use by, and expiration dates helps the store know how long they should keep a product on the shelves and is an estimate of how long the food will taste its best. These dates will usually be formatted with the month, day, and year. Expiration Date On Hostess Donettes Once you know what type of date is on the package (use by or sell by, etc.), the next step is to identify what the code date means. Many code dates are based on a Julian calendar. This means that January 1st equals '1' and the last day of the year, Dec 31, is '365.
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Most likely someone will buy the brand and reproduce the snack, but for now, Twinkies just got much harder to come by.So what actually happens to a Twinkie over time? And how long will the ones in your closet actually last now that they are no longer in production?Author Steve Ettlinger devoted an entire book to the Twinkie, called ', and found thatA science teacher in Blue Hill, Maine, kept one in his classroom for 30 years.
'It's rather brittle, but if you dusted it off, it's probably still edible,'But despite all the myths, Twinkies really only have a shelf-life of 25 days, according to most sources —, the self-proclaimed Twinkie guru and vice president for research and development at Interstate Bakeries Corp., the parent company of Hostess.
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