winkle, twinkie, quickie, Confit (French), piece of cake

Twinkies

A Twinkie is a "Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling" popular in the United States and elsewhere in North America. It is distributed by Continental Baking Co., which is owned by Kansas City-based Interstate Bakeries Corporation.


Spotlight:

How did Twinkies get their name? The creator of the cream-filled sponge cake, Jimmy Dewar, was driving down to St. Louis to present his sweet snack, when he saw a billboard advertising Twinkle Toe Shoes, and he decided to call his little cakes Twinkies. Containing about 145 calories apiece, Twinkies are comfort food; they're sweet and light and easy to eat. Everyone makes fun of them. Very few people will admit to it, but someone in America is eating an awful lot of them. Hostess sold about 500,000,000 Twinkies last year. First invented on this date in 1930, Twinkies became a lunch box favorite and were a snack food of choice to satisfy the need for a mid-afternoon sugar fix. In 1999, US President Bill Clinton chose a package of Twinkies as one of the "enduring American icons" to be preserved in the nation's millennium time capsule.

Quote:

"When it comes to Twinkies, I'd rather fight than quit." — Henry Waxman, chairing House hearings on smoking

THE CHEF: DAVID KINCH; By Fat Transformed: The Confit, in All Its Splendor

Confit (French) is a generic term for various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation. Sealed and stored in a cool place, confit can last for several months, and can be reheated to extend its useful life. Confit is one of the oldest ways to preserve food, and is a speciality of southwestern France.

Contents [hide] 1 Etymology 2 Meat confits 3 Meat confit history 4 Fruits confits 5 Notes 6 External links

[edit] Etymology

The word comes from the French verb confire (to preserve), which in turn comes from the Latin word (conficere), meaning "to do, to produce, to make, to prepare." The French verb was first applied in medieval times to fruits cooked and preserved in sugar.

A deep fried twinkie

A deep-fried Twinkie involves freezing the popular Hostess Twinkie cake, dipping it into batter and deep frying it to create a variation on the traditional snack cake. According to the Hostess website, Christopher Sell invented the "fried twinkie" at the ChipShop, his restaurant in Brooklyn, New York.^[5] According to CNN, the dish was adopted by Chris Mullen, but invented at a "Brooklyn restaurant."

The nou QUICKIE has one meaning:
Meaning #1: hurried repair
Synonyms: band aid, quick fix, quicky


piece of cake
Something easily accomplished, as in I had no trouble finding your house--a piece of cake. This expression originated in the Royal Air Force in the late 1930s for an easy mission, and the precise reference is as mysterious as that of the simile easy as pie. Possibly it evokes the easy accomplishment of swallowing a slice of sweet dessert.

winkle

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪŋk(ə)l/

Definition of winkle

noun

• 1a small herbivorous shore-dwelling mollusc with a spiral shell. Also called periwinkle².
  

  • Family Littorinidae, class Gastropoda: many genera and species, including the common and edible Littorina littorea

• 2 informal a child’s term for a penis.

verb

[with object] (winkle something out) chiefly British

• extract or obtain something with difficulty:I swore I wasn’t going to tell her, but she winkled it all out of me

Derivatives

winkler

noun

Origin:

late 16th century: shortening of periwinkle²

蘋論：猛男秀不過一片蛋糕 2011年 12月09日 昨天蘇嘉全在第一時間出面為妻子10年前的生日宴上看猛男秀而道歉。蘇嘉全學得很快，一改上次豪華農舍事件時強掰硬拗傷及蔡英文的錯誤，這次不囉唆，先道歉再說。
其實10年前在生日宴看猛男秀既不犯法，也無關道德是非；那時也不知道蘇嘉全後來要選副總統，是件沒什麼大不了的事，頂多是「社會觀感不好」。跟豪華農舍事件比起來，猛男秀根本是「一片蛋糕」小題大做。
民主社會對正副總統及候選人的要求很高，光守法不夠，還要道德鮮少瑕疵，但僅守住道德的基本底線遠遠不足，社會還期待他們人格正直、操守廉潔、心靈高尚、風格優雅。這固然是民主社會長處，但不可過度要求到失去人性地步，像是要求候選人像苦行僧節衣縮食，自我鞭笞。
邱毅拿出蘇妻觀看猛男秀的照片，目的在引起選民對蘇妻的反感，然後轉移成對蘇嘉全的反感，然後再轉移成對蔡英文的反感。這個目的能達成嗎？不能！轉了那麼一大圈，反感老早消蝕一空；況且選民並不認為10年前蘇妻在宴會上看猛男秀有什麼失格之處。台灣的民俗是可以接受這樣的情境，例如婚喪喜慶典禮上演出電子花車、脫衣舞、鋼管秀等，名為娛樂當事人或往生者，其實是取悅來賓並讓弔者大悅。
窮追猛打恐引反感 如果邱毅或藍色名嘴們過度運作，只會造成反作用力讓選民同情蘇嘉全。先前猛攻蘇的豪華農舍案，時間過長、招式用老就發現產生反彈而趕緊叫停。須知假農舍在台灣很普遍，國民黨政要也所在多有，屬於法律灰色地帶，邱毅等緊咬不放當然會引起反感。藍嘴們也學到教訓，並未對猛男秀窮追猛打。看來蘇嘉全、民進黨和藍嘴們都從民主機制中，學到分寸的拿捏和中道的掌握。
民主政治是種俗世政治，雖把領導人的規格定得很高，但也必須接受領導人的人性弱點，例如柯林頓的好色成性。一味的拉高道德聲調以打擊競選對手，會讓人討厭，因為任何人都不可能完美，包括訓斥別人的人。
藍嘴們想要藉猛男秀激起選民「泛道德民粹主義」的意識，以打擊蔡、蘇的選情。這想法很危險，也沒什麼正當性，見好就收吧！