Vending Oddities

The vending machine near my office is a source of amusement. It has the usual items plus a small, odd assortment of bakery items with shelf lives of at least 10 years. It's like having a museum of oddities close by. But one that has exhibits on no apparent schedule.

The latest fun item was "Jumbo Honey Bun" -- a brownish bun-like article with what looked like paste on top. I assumed it was frosting. It was indeed jumbo. It hardly fit in the rack. Two other favorites:

• Lucky Puffs -- Cupcake, snowball things covered in fluorescent green coconut. Just in time for St. Patrick's Day. We were hoping for a whole line of puffs -- red white and blue freedom puffs for July 4, orange spooky puffs for Halloween. No such luck.
• Tiger Tails -- Twinkie looking items -- bright yellow -- with painted-on stripes. Alluring yet, as a tail, oh-so-creepy.

While trying to find photos of some of these I discovered that there is a recipes section on the Hostess site. Who knew? Twinkies sushi, caramel snail on a log. Almost as disgusting as the litter box cake.

Does anyone else find the name of this bread just a little disgusting?