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Should I be running around buying up Twinkies? Well, should I?
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This is the media spinning things up as they always do. Hostess will either mediate this or a competitor will eventually pick them up...the demand is too high for the product
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I wouldn't worry about to much Cupcake. 
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Well, maybe it's just been a coincidence, OR just another case of selective use of film used by the Media, BUT every person they've shown walking out of the stores after buying up all the remaining Twinkies in stock were AT LEAST 100 freakin' pounds overweight or more. (...oh shades of that "Your Thoughts" thread again, eh?!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Btw, Letterman last night had a great take on this... "Yeah, I remember like it was yesterday when I was kid how my Mom each morning would lovingly place a package of Twinkies in my lunch bag before I'd go off to school. I ALSO remember like it was yesterday my open-heart surgery a few years back, TOO!" 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Ever see the movie 'Zombieland'?
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Don't know how the negotiations are going, but Pabts brewery has bid on the Twinkies works. Mmmm, beer Twinkies!  If they do save the Twinky, I'll be switching to Pabts Blue Ribbon!
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HEY! I've just had ANOTHER thought here. (yeah, I hear all the groans here after that...  ) Now, IF there are no more Twinkies, then HOW the hell is anyone gonna get off with a relative slap-on-the-wrist anymore, IF, say, they suddenly decide to go shoot their mayor and a councilman one day???  For those around here with short memories... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Went on a ride with some chaps last Sunday, we stopped for fuel and what did this guy pull outta his bags, you guessed it a Hostess Twinkie. He started the bid at $5.00, pretty funny at the time. I can honestly say I could count on my hands how may of those things I had in my life. However Hostess makes Merita Bread, my choice for sammich 
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I think we're ok keith. Hostess products are made under license in canada by weston maybe.
We may have to take up twinkie smuggling though if the drought in the us is prolonged. I bet we could use a catapult to get them across the border. Maybe some kind of deal where we find a clearing or parking lot on the US side where desperate twinkie-fiends would congregate and we could taunt them with deliciousness.
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They are not too bad if you freeze them first. But yeah, not too many of those have I consumed. In another vein, I love to eat little debbies! Or at least I did when I was a yute: Swiss Rolls yum yum...
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I can honestly say I could count on my hands how may of those things I had in my life.
I don't think I've had one in at least a decade
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Yep, I think I got "all nostalgic" about a decade ago when I saw a package of 'em in the vending machine at my work's lunch room. And so unable to resist my little jaunt down Memory Lane, I threw some coinage into that machine and purchased 'em. Well, as is true in most things in life, the things you remember as a kid bein' SO great usually turn out to be a big disappointment when you revisit 'em. And sure as heck, I think I threw the second one away(yeah, yeah, I KNOW..."There's kids starving in Africa!" ) because the first one I ate was SO freakin' sugary and almost "crystalline" sweet, I could barely get THAT one down.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Yeah, there goes my excuse to go ballistic . . . I was trying to work up the courage to consume one first though. All I can remember about them was how gummy they were (then again, I came from a family that Cajun blackened everything - even before there was a cuisine by that name). 
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They're selling them on Ebay. 
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Well now, I "Gear-ron-TEE" I like me some Cajun food, Cyn. Yep, love the blackened stuff...though yeah, maybe not on "everything".
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Well now, I "Gear-ron-TEE" I like me some Cajun food, Cyn. Yep, love the blackened stuff...though yeah, maybe not on "everything".
Well Dwight, I didn't say it was Cajun food, only that it was Canjun Blackened . . . I use my smoke alarm as a timer. I've been known to burn water!
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OH! I was wonderin' if you actually meant that. Yep, this reminds me of my Mom's culinary "expertise". For years I thought pork chops just must have the consistency of a piece of cardboard, 'cause she ALWAYS used to cook those suckers WAY too well done. I suppose that probably stemmed from her own upbringing and back in the time the danger of contracting Trichinosis was a major concern among the consumers of pork products.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I think we're ok keith. Hostess products are made under license in canada by weston maybe.
We may have to take up twinkie smuggling though if the drought in the us is prolonged. I bet we could use a catapult to get them across the border. Maybe some kind of deal where we find a clearing or parking lot on the US side where desperate twinkie-fiends would congregate and we could taunt them with deliciousness.
Really, Bill... do you really thing we'll be okay? Not that I ingest the dang things, only that I was hoping to make a buck from the demise of the Hostess Empire. Your idea of smuggling is a good one. And if we do keep producing Twinkies and such it could be good for tourism, I suppose!!
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The half life of a Twinkie is longer than plutonium.
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Should I be running around buying up Twinkies? Well, should I?
I think we're ok keith. Hostess products are made under license in canada by weston maybe.
We may have to take up twinkie smuggling though if the drought in the us is prolonged. I bet we could use a catapult to get them across the border. Maybe some kind of deal where we find a clearing or parking lot on the US side where desperate twinkie-fiends would congregate and we could taunt them with deliciousness.
That is interesting, if Hostess goes to liquidation in US Bankruptcy court does that effect Canadian production and contracts? Did GM go through a Canadian bankruptcy or just US? Just asking you Canadians.
I like an occasional Twinkies with a small carton of chocolate milk or a coffee.
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They should just liquidate the whole shot, and close the doors. Good bye Hostes it was good knowing ya.
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They should just liquidate the whole shot, and close the doors. Good bye Hostess it was good knowing ya.
Last I heard a Mexican corp. will buy the Hostess brand, produce in USA, nonunion shops.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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They should just liquidate the whole shot, and close the doors. Good bye Hostess it was good knowing ya.
Last I heard a Mexican corp. will buy the Hostess brand, produce in USA, nonunion shops.
Now there's a shocker, not !
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Hostess has been sold at least three times since the 1980s, racking up debt and shedding profitable assets along the way with each successive merger. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2004, and again in 2011.
As if all this were not enough, Hostess Brands’ management gave themselves several raises, all the while complaining that the workers who actually produced the products that made the firm what money it did earn were grossly overpaid relative to the company’s increasingly dismal financial position.
The Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International union, which represents thousands of striking Hostess Brand workers who have refused to accept a new contract that would do everything from slash their salaries to their retirement benefits. So now an estimated 18,500 workers will join the nation’s unemployment rolls.
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I just heard today but haven't had a chance to check yet but I was told the workers reached a deal with Hostess and they will not be closing the doors after all.
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Here is the first story I found but it still doesn't sound optimistic. Hostess
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I CANNOT believe that in a 3-page thread about Twinkies on a board primarily about a brit bikes,, no one has yet even whispered a word about Jaffa Cakes! 
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ha, anyone watch the last Ghost rider movie, where the one guy gets the power to decay everything he touched,,,,, except for that twinkie, it would not die! LOL
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Here is the first story I found but it still doesn't sound optimistic. Hostess
That was yesterday:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-21/goodbye-hostess
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Screw Twinkies! I don't want to lose my wonder bread! **Edit** The more I read about this debacle, the more apt I am to say let them go down the drain. Hostess blames the union and workers trying to collectively bargain while the CEO takes a 300 percent pay raise and increase other executives compensation by as much as 80 percent right before they filed for bankruptcy the SECOND time! All of which time unions were agreeing to wage cuts and reduced compensation packages to keep the company afloat. Irresponsibility in classic form but screw it...he's the boss...it's his right and his right only to to increase his salary from $750,000 to $2,550,000 when his company is in the red, there are plans to file bankruptcy and his labor force willing to take cuts to keep the company alive. Screw Hostess...let a responsible company buy them up once they flounder dead to turn it around and make a profit from this. The demand and opportunity is there...it just needs the right business minded people to grab this and run with it. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/11...fall/?mobile=nc
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Screw Twinkies! I don't want to lose my wonder bread!
**Edit**
The more I read about this debacle, the more apt I am to say let them go down the drain. Hostess blames the union and workers trying to collectively bargain while the CEO takes a 300 percent pay raise and increase other executives compensation by as much as 80 percent right before they filed for bankruptcy the SECOND time! All of which time unions were agreeing to wage cuts and reduced compensation packages to keep the company afloat. Irresponsibility in classic form but screw it...he's the boss...it's his right and his right only to to increase his salary from $750,000 to $2,550,000 when his company is in the red, there are plans to file bankruptcy and his labor force willing to take cuts to keep the company alive. Screw Hostess...let a responsible company buy them up once they flounder dead to turn it around and make a profit from this. The demand and opportunity is there...it just needs the right business minded people to grab this and run with it.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/11...fall/?mobile=nc
thank you for being a voice of reason! people LOVE to blame unions for companies problems... how dare those people try to get fair wages and benefits! 
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Maybe not in this case but in many cases unions protect workers right out of a job. Unions used to be a good thing but not so much anymore. Corruption just like most any other large organization.
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Screw Twinkies! I don't want to lose my wonder bread!
**Edit**
The more I read about this debacle, the more apt I am to say let them go down the drain. Hostess blames the union and workers trying to collectively bargain while the CEO takes a 300 percent pay raise and increase other executives compensation by as much as 80 percent right before they filed for bankruptcy the SECOND time! All of which time unions were agreeing to wage cuts and reduced compensation packages to keep the company afloat. Irresponsibility in classic form but screw it...he's the boss...it's his right and his right only to to increase his salary from $750,000 to $2,550,000 when his company is in the red, there are plans to file bankruptcy and his labor force willing to take cuts to keep the company alive. Screw Hostess...let a responsible company buy them up once they flounder dead to turn it around and make a profit from this. The demand and opportunity is there...it just needs the right business minded people to grab this and run with it.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/11...fall/?mobile=nc
The Teamsters Union and Corp agreed with the new contracts, even though I believe it still called for bread and Hostess not to be delivered in the same trucks, that made sense? The "baker's" union rejected it on the advice of their leadership, believing that another corp would sweep in and take over saving their jobs, didn't happen. By the way the management salaries and the contracts offered to the unions were approved by the Federal Bankruptcy Judge, it was his determination that it was the only way Hostess could remain a going concern.
Interestingly, one of the partners in the group that owns the corp is Sen. Gephardt from Missouri, once thought to be a VP contender and a darling of the unions.
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It may just be the economics of the times, no one right or wrong. It's been reported by several sources that the USA just has too much commercial baking capacity for the demand, making bakers cannibalise each other. In the long term this maybe better for those that survive, good for both the corps and workers.
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All I can say is I hope someone makes Zingers!
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It may just be the economics of the times, no one right or wrong. It's been reported by several sources that the USA just has too much commercial baking capacity for the demand, making bakers cannibalise each other. In the long term this maybe better for those that survive, good for both the corps and workers.
I agree with this as there are companies that understand with the balance of collectively bargaining AND the rewards for the executives of a business ran in a fiscally sound manner. Perhaps the best thing that could happen is a company that has their shiite together see the demand for Twinkies (and other Hostess products) and look at this as an opportunity to expand growth which serves to the demands of the market while also increasing profits for executives AND workers.
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Just wait until the legal pot in colorada takes off a bit.
Demand for twinkles will skyrocket.
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I CANNOT believe that in a 3-page thread about Twinkies on a board primarily about a brit bikes,, no one has yet even whispered a word about Jaffa Cakes!
If Jaffa Cakes were easier to get in the US, Twinkies would have gone under years ago! Hmmm, do I smell conspiracy here?
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