My great gram lived with me from ages 93 to 96. Several times I accidently left a full box of twinkies out and went on with the day. When I remembered to check they would all be gone. She literally would eat the whole box over several hours...LOL.... Only happened a few times but we still laugh about it. She lived to age 97. Sadly she had a fall and broke both her hips so her last few months were spent in a nursing home. We still would sneak her some twinkies though.
Great story. My grandfather was still eating bacon and eggs every morning at 96. He quit riding a motorcycle at 93.
My God...you just brought back one of my very fondest memories of my Dad.He had long been widowed and as he approached 80 he started to decline mentally so he spent the last 8 years of his life in my home.He was a serious junk food junkie...his favorite junk food being Hostess cupcakes.I have pictures of him,after he got into a newly purchased box,his face covered in chocolate with that big grin of his on his face.I'm starting to tear up right now thinking about it.Thanks for the memory!
After my grandmother’s sudden died, my grandfather was forced to move in with my parents. He was dying from leukemia, but my mother couldn’t bring herself to put him in a nursing home and he was unwilling to have a private nurse live with him. Every few days she had to drive him all over the region in search of those peach pies made by Hostess. The apple and cherry were ubiquitous, but the peach were hard to come by. Whenever she found a supply she would buy the entire stock. For whatever reason those Hostess peach pies were one of the few things in this world he still enjoyed.