 Rest easy, Twinkie lovers: Hostess Brands, the storied American manufacturer of snack cakes, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday, but said it will continue to churn out Ho Hos, Ding Dongs and other iconic products. "Throughout the proceeding, we're going to operate business as normal," said Hostess spokesman Erik Halvorson. "They'll keep making Twinkies." Read - Twinkies will keep coming despite bankruptcy and more on the Twinkies crisis |
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It's a reasonably free country. If you like them you can eat them. But you'll be eating food that does not nourish and make you healthy.
Have we really come to this, multiple stories about a plastic snack cake? Opinion pieces about Ding Dongs? Comments from public officials about this dire issue? If we're in any doubt that the news media is there solely to entertain us, this should put the kabosh on that. The world appears to be imploding; our privacy is not just under attack, it's about dufunct; our economy is pretty much shot and the middle class sliding into the toilet–and we have multiple stories about TWINKIES? Civilization–it's over, folks.
Laughing, great response!
The hostess of the 60's was far superior to the shallow tasteless, half empty pies with no fruit pieces of the 2012. I have not bought hostess since a zinger had no chocolate taste 20 years ago and a cherry pie had one cherry 25 years ago.
I have bought 10 cases of twinkies so far in hopes they shut there door. I will be able to sell packages on amazon and ebay for 15 times the cost. I am making a mint right now on dublin dr. pepper. There loss my gain.
I'd eat up all the profits.
There, their and they're. There is a difference.
I think you will be having twinkies and Dr. Pepper for lunch for a while, strike avoided by agreement of the bakers union...stay tuned. And really, who would pay any meaningful sum of money for a snack cake??
I love Twinkies and hope they stay around for many more years! I grew up with Twinkies being in my lunchbox and couldn't wait for lunchtime! Just wish they'd come down on the price per box...dang, they are expenisvie when we're on a budget!
I'm not worried. They'll ill off the unions and kill off our kids, but Twinkies will still be around.
Twinkies are the best friend I ever had. I fought the law and I won.
make it go away forever! we don't need those high fat, high sugar and unhealthy stuff!
we got too many fat people in this country so that the less unhealthy stuff going away, the better people's life will be.
... sorry for typo.
i mean that the MORE unhealthy stuff going away, the better people's life will be... which is true!
Maybe people should practice self-control and exercise instead of blaming Twinkies and other foods for the obesity problem
Never liked Twinkies - way, way too sweet! totally unhealthy....
That's not even food. It's rocks, petroleum products, and ingredients that come from china that aren't inspected, and they don't even have to tell you what they are. YUCK!
When long time companies such as this are going bankrupt there is surely and large econommic problem, the next bubble will the the coporate one.
If Hostess goes under, someone will buy their resources and continue baking, I figure.
If Hostess shuts down, worry not m'ladies, my sno balls and ding dong will hit the spot literally and figuratively.
Bravo! Haha!
I smell another opportunity for gubment bailout with our money!
They need to make Hostess food more tasty to get out of Chapter 11.
I've lost my appetite on these foods. It's too dry to me.
The government should buy the bankrupt company and disclose exactly what is in those creme.
i want to stick my Twinkie into her Ding-Dong / Ho-Ho !
All these comments about twinkies, and not many comments about the story. Keep in mind:
(1) Hostess and its subsidiairies make a diversified line of bakery products
(2) They are simply reorganizing under chapter 11. This 'bankruptcy' is a non issue unless you are an investor in the company (which is private), are owed money by the company or are an employee of the company
They should just have Romney come in, fire all of the old timers still making that disgusting Wonder Bread and sell the Twinkies brand to Tasttcake. Done deal....
If you Knew whats in a twinkee & how they make it, You will never eat one again.................
Well enlighten us, Bob.
Funny, that's what I was told about hot dogs, but I still eat them.
Weird Al must be going crazy, the demise of Twinkies will room his balanced diet from the major food groups – "Twinkies, Yo-Ho's and Cupcakes"
..will ruin...."
I am sooo tired of everyone blaming (insert food here) for anything that kills them. When did everyone become blameless for their actions? I like junk food, and I have to work that much harder at the gym because of it. Sure, I eat healthy meals but I like my candy bar, french fries and twinkies too, and will eat them as I please. I don't blame high fructose corn syrup for my love handles...I blame myself for eating it. Stop passing the buck...and keep making twinkies. I haven't had one in a while now that I think about it.
Excellent post, 100% true. Inspiring, even !
Yes, I will soon buy a package of Hostess Cupcakes and eat them in my truck, alone! And I WILL TELL NO ONE ! !
BWAAA- HAW-HAW-HAW-HAW ! ! ! ! ! !
P.S.: I predict the company will sell this stuff in record numbers because of all this media attention....
as a former college football/basketball player and marathon runner, i would like to say that your comment is selfish. the important thing to remember is that most children do not know any better and establish unhealthy eating patterns based on food that tastes good, is cheap and easy. you look at the average man/woman buying hostess cupcakes at the grocery store. fat. lazy. a burden on society due to their insane health care costs (diabetes, etc). be done with hostess. go eat a huge piece of chocolate cake that takes time to make. might be a little more expensive. that is not a step that most fat, lazy people make anyhow.
Stereotype much? You are so typical of the far left party of hate, who cries for "tolerance" except for those they disagree with.
Give me Twinkies Not Shui !!!!
Didn't make sense the first time you said it.
Give mw Twinkies not shui !!!
Another union killed company
DO YOU WANT TO FEEL HOW HARD I CAN PUNCH?!!!
Suits my lifestyle, you know.
Yikes! That's the padding she put on her waist line.
Its demise would also kill the stands at the local fairs that sell them deep fried
LOL! They'll just deep fry the next door neighbor or their dog or the oak branch that just fell out of their tree yesterday. There will be no shortage of things to fry if Twinkies go belly up.
If they really wanted to they could make the old style one with out all the preservatives and fructose corn syrup. Make one that's has real sugar and it would taste like it did back in the day. Get rid of the laundry list of ingredients and more people would feel comfortable eating those little gold devils.
Eeeek! A fattening, sugar-filled sweet might be going away?!? What will all the obese people do now?! Well there are still donuts and fast food! Whew!! That was close!!
Twinkies, Swiss Cake Rolls, and other "snack cakes" are better off left in my youthful memories. Whenever I eat one now it just tastes like bland nothingness. I guess your tastes become a little more discerning as you age. People that are in their 30's and 40's that think these things taste great need to try some other stuff out. I'm all for nostalgia, but c'mon!
its all the extra crap they put in it. If there were no preservatives and real sugar it would taste great.
So this is what the Mayan's Prophecy was all about....the end of Twinkies and not the end of the world.
LOL. Very good comeback.
Popular opinion on here seems to be that the root of obesity is Hostess cakes. If you eat them you'll get fat and if they went away everyone would get skinny! It's not the twinkies alone in your shopping cart making you fat. You may also want to question your lack of physical activity. I happen to think ding dongs and ho hos are delicios and eat them regularly. I also run sub 4 hr marathons regularly.
Those people on the ship in the movie Wall-E,
Reminds me of walmart customers.
There are millions of these tucked in a bunker somewhere since they last forever, there will never be a shortage...
Twinkies are gross. They don't taste the same way they did when I was a kid. They've added something to the ingredients or changed something that just doesn't have that sweet familiar taste it used to have. The usual sweet flavor quickly changes to a bitter after taste. I say let the product die out and maybe someone else will come up with the much better tasting original. I bet high fructose corn syrup has something to do with it.
I think it is more likely that your tastes have changed. A lot of the snacks I thought were amazing as a kid taste a little generic now.
Well, i guess you ought to start stocking up on the twinkies in case Hostess ever does go out of buisness. After all, they're said to last forever...
No they don't, didn't you see Zombieland?
Bankruptcy won't kill the icon...
But the icon will kill you.
as will Life, so why bother indulging that pleasure as well
oh come one people! really? the twinkie is fattening yes, good, yes, healthy, aw hell nah! but you dont need to act like this. seriosuly. you wanna be reading an article about a healthy food organization filing for bankruptcy, and have fatso's chearing? come on man!
now if this was Mcdonalds, that would be a different story...
It's OK to kill a baby in this country, but try to eat a Twinkie and you bring the house down on you.
I bet you are a real hit at parties
If we could just kill you, we wouldnt have to read your stupid posts.
Good... because without twinkies my life would be devoid of purpose.
Only fat azzes give a rip abou this topic. Think I'm wrong? Take a look at your own azz.
See I'm right.
I did, and it ain't fat, and I have eaten more than my share of Twinkies. In fact, my grandmother once said she thought I must have liquid Twinkie in my veins.
Howard
I did, and it ain't fat, and I have eaten more than my share of Twinkies. In fact, my grandmother once said she thought I must have liquid Twinkie in my veins.
You shoot up twinkies ?
Thank God they are finally facing bankruptcy, and I hope they don't recover. Those snacks are poison, and Hostess itself said the problem was that "customers are migrating to healthier foods." Apparently they want to bring those customers back to the crap somehow. Screw them, there are plenty of healthy, non-HFCS non-hydrogenated non-overpreserved desserts out there.
Nasty things. Do you actually know what the ingredients in these really are? I would tell you,
but you wouldn't believe me.
That's like saying get rid of cigarettes, they're unhealthy and proven to be, but it's not that easy is it? There are healthier alternatives to help quit smoking. But you don't see them a banning smokes or cause there is a demand. You don't see them banning gasoline engines cause they are bad for the environment, cause there is a demand. And they don't ban fast food or iconic snacks like the chocolate bars or the cake snacks no matter what, cause there is a demand and cause they want to try and make a buck. And when they aren't making a buck, they use the publicity to try and make more money. Stop the madness and free the original recipe, let people indulge in the sin of sweets at there own pace, who are you to tell people what they should or should not eat?
they should make a new law; must be over 18 to buy twinkies.
They did that with video games; it didn't stop 8 year olds from getting their hands on Call of Duty...
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they should make a new law; must be over 18 to buy twinkies.
Or under 180 pounds.
The only way to truly save the twinkies from extinction is to release the original twinkie recipe to the public. Looks like the private interests which currently control the asset are having a hard time keeping it viable within there economic model. Free the twinkie from capitalism and bankruptcy by releasing it's original recipe and stop this madness.
well said, and I agree to join the cause and add my voice to the call for freedom of the Twinkie from corporate bondage and tryanny
They already killed off Ring Dings,
now they are after twinkies.
Whats next ? Ho Ho's ?
whats the recipe? plastic and cream?
Save The Twinkies !!!!!!!!
LEGALIZE Marijuana! That will save the Twinkies for sure!!!!
LOL! WIN!
LOL
All in the Family ... Season 2 ... Sammy Davis, Jr. meets Archie ... Archie says "Edith get me a beer and a Twinkie for Mr. Davis." Edith returns and says "Here's your beer Archie and here's your Twinkie Mr. Davis. The look on Sammy Davis face brought the house down!
Had my last twinkie when I was 10? or so. Yeah stuff is fattening. Never let my kids eat the stuff. hohos or dingdongs. To each its own there are people out there who still support the cause of the Twinkie.
I buy snack cakes once in a while. Probably a dozen times in the past 5 years (since I was married), usually a large amount at once that last a couple weeks. The kids and I love them, but I feel guilty for the occasional indulgence, and feel sorry for a family where hostess cakes are a regular thing.
As someone whose parents never "let them have the stuff" trust me, they'll find it somewhere.
Not to worry people.........worst case scenario, Dept of Defense will take over the company as it requires twinkies to feed the reactors of its nuclear submarine fleet.
Continue the FAT American unhealthy cause! Yes!
what a shame... too bad they are staying in business.
I want them to change the recipie back to when they were cake and not some plastic confection they turned into.
OH NO!!!!!! HOW WILL I EVER MAINTAIN MY GIRLISH 400LB FIGURE?
those are some really white teeth digging into some junk food in that pic
let wonder bread, or interstate bakeries, or whatever they call themselves die . . . their products were mediocre . . . wonder bread is factory bread, awful stuff . . . . bread du jour was the only good stuff that they ever made
r m kraus/akron
And, you can roll a piece of Wonderbread into a ball and bounce it around the basketball court for about an hour -
good eating!
Crap is crap – anyone who would eat this junk has no idea of what quality if all about!
Hostess just emerged from bankruptcy last September, and Interstate Bakeries (makers of wonder bread) went bankrupt in 2005 and was taken over by hostess. Yet in another article they say they're not going to lay off any employees or close any plants. Would love to see their chap 11 reorg plan
is funny that they say that because all the older delivery guys around my area were fired a few years ago for various reasons that would deny them their retirements/pensions (and by this I mean they changed how they recorded things on books and fired people for losing a loaf of bread a single loaf)....they were replaced by minimum wage younger guys
I'm with Erik, never really liked twinkies but Sno Balls!! out does any french pastry.
The only thing worse than a sno ball, was a scooter pie,
Yuck !
They are staying, great. What else would I use to start my campfires; these things burn better than fuel.
How is life on the Rock?
Things are great here, had a bit of snow yesterday but nothing serious
Did you know that TWINKIES have BEEF FAT listed as an ingredient? FILTHYYYYYY
Twinkies are the only know food to man that will survive a nuclear attack!
Oh heaven forbid Twinkies might go away! This must be some pinko, ultra left wing liberal plot by the evil Obama Administration to destroy the fabric, the raw root of our American way of life – maybe even our entire Western 'civilization!'
Or maybe it will be one less thing the TSA screeners will have to take up at the security checkpoint (see story about explosive cupcakes).
In the words of Gene Roddenberry: "Scotty, beam me up – there's no intelligent life on this planet!"
I actually AM relieved! When I heard via CakeSpy they were filing for bankruptcy, I saw hundred of Twinkie uses fall right out the window before my eyes. Twinkie cakes! Twinkie pies!
So, in short, yay for Twinkies! :)
Thank God. All my worries are over.
Now what am I gunna use to plug up my baby maker hole once a month???
Did you even bother to read the very small paragraphs (or were the words too hard for you)? They are GOING to continue making the tasty treats.
did you even bother to infer that britney spears may be using twinkies as sanitary tampons? Der der derrrr
Wasn't it the Twinkie that got a murderer off the hook in San Francisco?
Not exactly. Dan White's crime was downgraded from first-degree murder to voluntary manslaughter. I guess that means he willfully put himself into a mental state where he would unable to reason clearly, as opposed to entering a building through a window while possessing loaded firearms with the explicit intent of killing Harvey Milk and George Moscone. IIRC, the defense's reasoning was that White had coped with his depression by overindulging in sugary junk food to the point that it messed up his body chemistry and ability to reason (kinda like diabeteic shock). Doesn't change the fact that White still commited Murder One. The moral- get a good lawyer. And lay off the twinkies.
Milk murdered by twinkie.
Good. Their products are health hazards.
Good them mind your own D@mmed business. Don't try to tell me what I can and can't eat.
You can eat all the cauliflower you want.
I'm voicing an opinion not trying to govern your life, chief. The only thing I will tell you to do is go get your G.E.D. and get a decent paying job. And learn to spell while you're at it.
I smell bailout. What will humans eat after the apocalypse if Twinkies are no longer. The shelf life on those bad boys are astronomical. Survivalists better start stocking up now.
Ever hear of tactical bacon?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/wacky-edibles/c399/
10 year shelf life of "tactical bacon" is nothing compared to the Twinkie. Or so the legend goes. Nice plug though.
mikrik13: If surviving WW3 means eating that crap I believe I'll give cannibalism a try...
C0ckroaches. They'll survive nuclear fallout. BBQ'd c0ckroaches. Yummmm.
who wants to keep it around its the worst kind of crap available.
No, your stupid bossy ignorant drivel is the worst crap around.
Let them go out of business. The health care costs as a result of their products are staggering.
Yeah, its all hostess' fault. It has nothing to do with the dozens of other companies who make essentially the same stuff.
This company has contributed to the staggering rise of cardiovascular diesease and healthcare costs. I would love to see them go out of business. Pay the employees who toiled away not knowing the harm they doing to our society their pensions and shut your doors forever. Goodbye Twinkies!
Well, aren't you just a little bucket of sunshine today?
If the employees who made these atrocities didn't know how dangerous the products are it's through their own willful ignorance. IOW, they blinded themselves to reality because they needed to make money. They were complicit. But seeing as you want Hostess to go out of business you can also find jobs for the displaced workers.
For crying out loud. It's a fuking Twinkie. Get over it and have a drink or smoke one.
CN Red: What's your point? That your solution to everything is to get drunk and/or stoned? "Fat, stupid, and drunk is no way to go through life, son."
Nope, and adhominem attacks and arguments will get you no where. Well, maybe they do in TX.
CN Red: Joke's on you if you think I'm really from TX. Do your homework...
Oh, so Hostess went around the country force feeding people snack cakes. That IS terrible of them isn't it.
No, people who can't stop cramming their mouths constantly contribute to the staggering rise of cardiovascular diesease and healthcare costs.
Exactly. It's people jamming their pie holes full of this crap that does it.
What about soft drinks(Pepsi,Coca-Cola), potato chips, candy bars, hamburgers, doughnuts, french fries, wine, hard liquor,
smoking, marijuana use, hot dogs, popcorn, tacos, white bread, farm raised fish, processed meats, sugar smacks cereal,
sweet tea, coffee, cookies.
Please tell us all what we can and cannot consume.
vanishingpt, that was my lunch yesterday.
I bet you eat at McDonalds.
Greg. Shut your mouth and get out of your mommy's basement.
Using computers contributes to the obesity epidemic and can cause carpal tunnel syndrome and sedentary lifestyle ailments that burden the health care system. Please launch the movement to save our health care system by powering down your computer now.
Learn to read and comprehend Greg ... Twinkies are not going away!
I'm more of a vanilla zinger kind of guy!
Twinkies were surpassed long ago by the mighty Zinger. If Hostess stops making Sno Balls, though, they may have a rebellion on their hands.
Sno Balls make me wanna ralph,'
whats that stuff on the top, rubber ?
@Jamawani- I totally agree. I actually tried to purchase a pack of twinkies at a Quick Mart a month or so ago. They cost $1.75 plus tax. In TN that's almost $2. I was absolutely shocked. When I opened them I was stunned by how tiny they were. They've made them smaller and jacked up the price. I decided I'd never buy them again. No wonder they're declaring bankruptcy. Hostess: you can only be so greedy before it backfires on you.
Bill, I couldn't agree more. I worked for Hostess/Wonderbread. Upper management did nothing but steal the profits. We were in bankruptcy before and the CEO was still getting big bonuses and blaming 'high labor costs' as the reason. They tried to break the Teamster Union before. They'll end up going under. The Twinkies and Cup Cakes aren't the same formula as the past anyway. Let 'em go.
Using that kind of logic you're going to have to stop buying pretty much of everything. A lot of products are making smaller containers and increasing the price.
Check out cans of tuna. That's a real obvious one.
They stopped putting prizes in cracker jacks.
I cant go on.
my body's aching and my time is at hand..............................
Of course, CNN doesn't talk about this second bankruptcy as a means for the company to divest itself of pension obligations for its employees. Thousands of people are losing their retirements – unless the federal government takes over the cost. Talk about free enterprise – what a bunch of hooey!
The pensons will be taken over by the PBGC.
So for all those people who want the government to stay out of business, consider what would happen to all the employees of IBC if there were no PBGC?
If corporations had their way, all of these employees would be SOL and the senior executives would still get their payoff.
Tell me again why I should trust corportations again?
fannie mae and freddy mac also told us not to worry before they crashed the economy.anyone who has seen zombieland knows that the world will end if we allow them to stop selling twinkies.u dont see obama rushing to bail them out of this crisis.theres ur proof that obama is intentionally destroying america.
Now THAT'S what I call logic! Hey Hammy, how about some capitol letters and some punctuation now and then?
Give him a break, he's only in the third grade.
Please put your tin-foil hat back on and resume your mumbling.
What a way to convolute several unrelated ideas by throwing in the word "twinkie" just to push your own paranoid agenda. Let's here your rant against Bush & Cheney for sending our budget surplus over to Iraq and Afghanistan. Further proof of their intentional ruing of this country. Not to mention what the GOP are currently doing...
Apologies for the typo- "...hear your rant..."
I knew it...Politics on a Food Blog. I hate that. :))
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Huh wha????
Who hit Hamsta on head with stupid stick ?
Try a few more whacks.
PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!