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World has suffered a major catastrophe and you are holed up in your average basement-turned-bunker. Being of the lower middle-class pre-apocalypse, you decided to stock up on Twizzlers. As a result, you now have approximately 5 tons of twizzlers and enough water to last 6 months (with water-catching systems in place for potentially unlimited supply of water).
Here's the question: Can you survive on a twizzler diet? High caloric content, easy to store, spoil resistant, and tasty even when hard as a rock (at least in my opinion).
If you think this is a stupid question, you're right! But humor me anyway as I am bored and it is a Monday.
I don't know if you actually die within 6 months of consuming nothing but Twizzlers and water, but you wouldn't be in good health! You would have been getting no vitamins, minerals, protein, or fiber. You would have been getting simple carbohydrates and hydration. It's better than nothing.
I remember reading once about a family in a Nazi-occupied area during WWII who was so desperate for something to eat, that they ate the wallpaper paste off of their wallpaper. Apparently it contained calories and protein.
Yeah, I'd go with the Red Vines as well. They just taste better. That does it, I'm replacing the grains, canned foods, dried foods, baking essentials... all of it... with Red Vines.
Dried out Red Vines are better than fresh ones, so long term storage would be good. Seriously - I love gnawing on the stuff. The fresh stuff is just to soft.
Here's the question: Can you survive on a twizzler diet?
Well considering Twizzlers' (and Red Vines', for that matter) second ingredient is wheat starch, and I have celiac, no, I would not survive on a Twizzlers diet...
Well considering Twizzlers' (and Red Vines', for that matter) second ingredient is wheat starch, and I have celiac, no, I would not survive on a Twizzlers diet...
No, I'm thinking that would not be a good match up -- a very short-term relationship.
I think you could be alive in 6 months, but you'd probably have rickets, beri beri, scurvy, pellagra, and severe muscle wasting from protein deficiency. But yes, the Twizzlers sure would be yummy. Maybe you could survive on Twizzlers and water if you also had a lot of bottles of multivitamins.
But there would still be the protein thing. But when your bunker-mate dies, you could solve that problem at least for a little while....
I think you could be alive in 6 months, but you'd probably have rickets, beri beri, scurvy, pellagra, and severe muscle wasting from protein deficiency. But yes, the Twizzlers sure would be yummy. Maybe you could survive on Twizzlers and water if you also had a lot of bottles of multivitamins.
But there would still be the protein thing. But when your bunker-mate dies, you could solve that problem at least for a little while....
Exactly!
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Seriously - I love gnawing on the stuff. The fresh stuff is just to soft.
