if only weed was legalized sooner, and completely hostess would be rolling in that munchie money.but oh well, puritanical values for the sake of them are just more important than logic or reason

So will these strange products go extinct? Will a breeding program be established to save the species?
We may have to take our grand children to a museum to see the doomed snacks. What will I say when they ask about them? I could tell them about the time their grandma let me smear HoHo's all over her.............no that won't work. I'm not sure how to explain them since, from the name Hostess, to the phallic Twinkies, the breast-shaped SnoBalls, and who-knows-what-the-heck is going on with HoHo's......, it's all sex.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
As Tom Robbins observed, they are one of the few species who travel in pairs and mate for life.

Good. Wonder Bread and Twinkies are shit. Break them up and give smaller manufacturers a chance to fill the void.

Now THAT'S how to watch out for the jobs of your union members. I hope the rank and file are happy about the representation they have paid for with the union.

Real quote from an AP story:

“How do these just disappear from your life? That’s just not right, man. I’m loyal. I love these things, and I’m diabetic.”

Let the culling begin.****LOL

Now, Occupy Wall Street Rolling Jubilee should come-in buy up this company and give it back to the employees!!

C'mon, stop blaming labor for the company's mismanagement.

Heard on the news here that another company will likely buy the rights - worth zillions for the rights to the Twinkie name - the right to make and sell Twinkies. Fear not, poison-junk-eaters. Your Twinkies and Ding-Dongs are safe. They Shall Rise Again.

although this seemingly not so innocent junk or comfort food will be missed and I feel really bad about those losing their jobs around the holidays....so can someone explain to me how the economy is doing better??? 18,000 more families going to depend on gooberment ...sad...really

That sh*t is all poison anyway. The market is getting increasingly health councious.
I just put a box of twinkles on eBay for 2 grand, I hope that's ok.

Mmmm, Tasty Chemicals - A new book 'deconstructs' a Twinkie and analyzes all 39 ingredients. Industrial-strength junk food, anyone?

At the heart of the book is the fundamental question: why is it you can bake a cake at home with as few as six ingredients, but Twinkies require 39? And why do many of them seem to bear so little resemblance to actual food? The answer: To stay fresh on a grocery-store shelf, Twinkies can't contain anything that might spoil, like milk, cream or butter. Once you remove such real ingredients, something has to take their place—and cellulose gum, lecithin and sodium stearoyl lactylate are a good start. Add the fact that industrial quantities of batter have to pump easily through automated tubes into cake molds, and you begin to get the idea.

Even so, it can be unsettling to learn just how closely the basic ingredients in processed foods resemble industrial materials. Corn dextrin, a common thickener, is also the glue on postage stamps and envelopes. Ferrous sulfate, the iron supplement in enriched flour and vitamin pills, is used as a disinfectant and weedkiller. Is this cause for concern? Ettlinger says no, though you wouldn't want a diet that consists solely of Twinkies. Ultimately, all food, natural and otherwise, is composed of chemical compounds—and normal ingredients like salt have industrial applications, too. Still, it gives you pause when he describes calcium sulfate, a dough conditioner, as "food-grade plaster of Paris."

In the end, you may learn more than you really wanted to about the Twinkie-Industrial Complex, as Ettlinger calls it. But you will never read a label the same way again.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/03/04/mmmm-tasty-chemicals.html

Hostess, a privately held company, filed for Chapter 11 protection in January, its second trip through bankruptcy court in less than a decade. The company cited increasing pension and medical costs for employees as one of the drivers behind its latest filing. Hostess has argued that workers must make concessions for it to exit bankruptcy and improve its financial position.

The company, founded in 1930, is fighting battles beyond labor costs, however. Competition is increasing in the snack space and Americans are increasingly conscious about healthy eating. Hostess also makes Dolly Madison, Drake's and Nature's Pride snacks.

Hostess said it would file the motion to liquidate Friday if needed, with a hearing scheduled for Monday. If the motion is granted, Hostess would begin closing operations as early as Tuesday.

Hostess, which is privately owned by two hedge funds, has struggled in recent years with two bankruptcy filings. The company said it "has done everything in its power to pursue a reorganization of its business as a going concern, including spending the better part of 18 months negotiating with its key constituents to obtain a consensual agreement."

So Hostess took the money that was supposed to go to pensions and stole it. Now they claim all the money is gone and so someone else should have to pay the pensions.
Romney wasn't involved in this deal was he?

Just that much less crap to poison the body with.

So if the product lines will be bought and manufactured by another company/companies is there a possibility that workers in other unionized shops will be making the Twinkies, and thusly benefiting thru anothers loss and could that have been the unions plan all along ?

I do love a conspiracy.

Thanks for posting.

Ugh ... Twinkies...

Petition wants Obama to save Twinkies

' "We the undersigned, hereby request Barack Obama to immediately Nationalize the Twinkie industry and prevent our nation from losing her sweet creamy center," a petition on the White House "We the People" website requests.

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https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/nationalize-twinkie-industry/cJz0ngJR

Hostess should have pushed for a twinkie tax to offset the disparity...Maybe they could have reached out to Kraft and incorporated an Oreo/Twinkie tax.

man..... I'm being a bad crabbyoldguy today.

So Dagum, are you saying with this thread that you are anti-union?