If there are only two paragraphs you ever read from Twinkie, Deconstructed

Make it these:

When you consider the Twinkie as a product — which it truly is, in every sense of the term — it’s not that hard to fathom its link to the world economy. Twinkies’ ingredients are the products of a rural-industrial complex, made from a web of chemicals and raw materials produced by or dependent on nearly every basic industry we know. Where do they come from, my kids wanted to know. They come from an international nexus: the Twinkie Nexus.

Twinkies are obviously connected to food industries such as corn, soybeans, wheat, eggs, and milk, but, in fact, Twinkies ingredients are also manufactured with fourteen of the top twenty chemicals made in the United States, not even including salt (which goes into chlorine) or petroleum. The unlikely food subingredients sulfuric acid, ethylene, lime, and phosphoric acid top the list. The Twinkie Nexus is huge and complex. 

— Steve Ettlinger in Twinkie, Deconstructed