Hostess Brands are Closing for Good

I don't understand why they don't get enough business. They got a bad rep of being extremely fattening, but that fear obviously hasn't halted America's ongoing Bacon obsession (and, you know, obesity).

The nail in this company's coffin is apparently a baker's strike.

I'm going to head to my local outlet store and buy them out of Sno-Balls, Zingers, and Twinkies. I wish I had a big freezer.

Oh yea, here's a link: http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-closing/

Yeah that strike backfired on them. Reading most of their blue chip brands will be sold off to the likes of Sarah Lee, Kraft Foods, Kellogg, etc.

Yeah, no fear, junk food lovers - those brands will live on, just under new management.

i clicked on this thread thinking "awesome!" but the brands live and the jobs die. that's pretty much the worst case scenario for hostess closing.

  On 11/16/2012 at 7:45 PM, luke viia said:

i clicked on this thread thinking "awesome!" but the brands live and the jobs die. that's pretty much the worst case scenario for hostess closing.

Only if you're making Twinkies

A sad day for Woody Harrelson, if you've seen Zombieland.

  On 11/16/2012 at 7:37 PM, Joyrex said:

Yeah, no fear, junk food lovers - those brands will live on, just under new management.

I'm just worried because all of the news people are saying it's the end of Twinkies. Guess they have to sensationalize everything though.

I hope new management takes over the recipe, and then makes them cheaper. They can hardly compete with Mrs. Freshley's and Little Debbie price-wise.

Oh yea, related. Been wanting to try this since I saw the movie.

RE: Twinkies. I've got a couple of things I bought back from the US when I was there as a kid. One of them being a twinkie holder called Twinkie the kid. Cowboy hat, lasso the lot.

the reason hostess is closing is obvious.

little debbie sells the same snack type things for half the price. there are people that say they aren't the same thing but come on

NOOOOOOO!!!!!! if there are no more twinkies then what am i supposed to eat in post-nuclear apocalyptia!? everyone knows its the only food that can survive a nuclear blast!

my twinkie puts the cream in hostess and little debbie

"Twinkie" has too much draw to die.

I think they'll just sell off the rights to call a product "twinkie" tho

  On 11/16/2012 at 8:00 PM, ambermonk said:

A sad day for Woody Harrelson, if you've seen Zombieland.

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  On 11/17/2012 at 6:30 AM, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew said:

  On 11/16/2012 at 8:00 PM, ambermonk said:

A sad day for Woody Harrelson, if you've seen Zombieland.

 

 

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Bingo.

i kind of don't care about this actually at all. i'd munch on those things every once in a while but i never could bring myself to buy it. being a chef myself, i realize there are way better avenues available for desserts, which are a fairly small portion of my nutritional intake.

good riddance to a shit product !

Agreed. I haven't eaten these shitty products since grade school.

edit: Zebracakes were OK.

also, there's a joke to be made about marijuana slowly becoming legal and Hostess going out of business. maybe if they could just stick it out for a couple more years they'd be seeing their best numbers yet !

I want one of those orange cupcakes now.