Mike Gold: Bite My Twinkie

Mike Gold

ComicMix's award-winning and spectacularly shy editor-in-chief Mike Gold also performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking rock, blues and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com and on iNetRadio, www.iNetRadio.com (search: Hit Oldies) every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, rebroadcast three times during the week – check www.getthepointradio.com above for times and on-demand streaming information.

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5 Responses

  1. Martha Thomases says:

    “Sure, there’s a handful of Food Nazis who have been quoted as saying “well, now people can eat vegetables and other healthy stuff.” ”

    1. Who are you quoting?

    2. This Food Nazi suggests that, when you want cake, you eat real, delicious cake, full of butter (instead of trans-fats) and sugar (instead of high-fructose corn syrup) and eggs.

    That said, I will miss being able to take the entire marshmallow cover off a Sno-Ball in one piece. So few of my talents are of use in this modern age.

  2. Martha, Martha, Martha…

    The people who are suggesting you have a proper cake with milk and eggs are people who are against additives and artificial ingredients. They make a point, and they can vary in volume and shrillness, but they are not the Food Nazis to whom Mike is alluding.

    He means (well, I know I’m thinking of) the people who insist that sugar should be a controlled substance, and that any form of candy or other foil-wrapped joy are diminishing us as a people, and must be stopped. Not curbed, not reduced, not made marginally healthier, STOPPED.

    I defy you to tell me those people do not exist.

  3. Mike, sorry to disagree with you, but a quick check shows that there were at least 10 Hostess ads that featured Superman. It also looks like all of them were drawn by Curt Swan.

    • Mike Gold says:

      Howard, I stand corrected. I should have searched for the inevitable online Hostess comics index.

      Martha, I was quoting interview subjects on WCBS radio in New York and on CNN. And I wasn’t calling you a Food Nazi; I’ve dined with you more times than I can count and I know better. Indeed, you’ve never even said “Hey, enough with the barbecue, Tubby!” More important, Food Nazies do not have a sense of humor. You have one of the best.

      The whole Hostess thing, to an even far greater extent than comic books, is a nostalgia thing. At my family Thanksgiving dinner in Detroit, everybody waxed poetic about the loss of the Twinkie… even the health food enthusiast.