Ding Dong, the Twinkie’s Dead!! Hostess Goes Out of Business, Blames Baker Strike

Ding Dong, the Twinkie’s Dead!! Hostess Goes Out of Business, Blames Baker Strike

I have a very close relative, morbidly obese, who may hold a funeral service for hostess–she’ll be crushed. She eats Twinkies with the gusto of a $20 whore giving fellatio.

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I can’t say I’m at all broken up about the company that’s responsible for “The Twinkie Defense” and millions of lard asses all over the United States shuttering it’s doors. Blame the bakers if you wish, but I’d like to believe, in pure Santa Clause fashion, that Hostess going out of business is perhaps due in part to people becoming less interested in filling their bloodstream with pastries created in a lab. Don’t even TRY to blame this on Grandma. Grandma at least uses real sugar and butter, not high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated lard.

I have a very close relative, morbidly obese, who may hold a funeral service for hostess–she’ll be crushed. She eats Twinkies with the gusto of a $20 whore giving fellatio.

From the presses:

Hostess Brands, the bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, said it has sought court permission to go out of business after failing to get wage and benefit cuts from thousands of its striking bakery workers.

Hostess said a national strike by members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union that began last week had crippled its ability to produce and deliver products at several facilities.

The liquidation of the company will mean that most of its 18,500 employees will lose their jobs, Hostess said on Friday.

The 82-year-old company said it took the decision to shut down after determining that not enough employees had returned to work by a deadline on Thursday.

I guess it might be too much to ask that when they sell their poisonous recipes for profit to other companies that the buyers would at least use real ingredients not grown in a lab, but in Grandma’s kitchen?

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LuMaTsao 146 pts

Gusto of a $20 whore giving fellatio.....oh man, picture in my head Chris lol.

Christelyn 8743 pts moderator

 LuMaTsao Ricky, MY LOVE! I've missed you so!

heyimPearlilikefries 2091 pts

I guess I'm the only one pissed about this. 

 

ironcowboy 324 pts

I'm just glad all these 18500 jobs were lost AFTER the election... plus the 97,000 additional ones that other companies have reported since the election!  Phew... well played Democrats!   Can you imagine how the election would have turned out if the unemployment rate was really 16.9%, sorry that is U6... I mean 8.1%  

SirLoinDeBeef 2504 pts

In New Jersey, in the autumn, they have the Punkin' Chunkin' Festival, where guys (nearly all white) use a variety of methods to heave a moderate-size, inoffensive pumpkin the faretherest, but without using explosives - the current record is held by the Liquid-Nitrogen Cannon ... which can throw the pumpkin a quarter mile.

Now, what can we do with the few remaining Twinkies?

ironcowboy 324 pts

 SirLoinDeBeef There is only one sport that is better than pumpkin chunkin...Snowmobile water cross racing... This is where we have some beer, take a snowmobile that DOES not float and see have far across a lake we can skim it! 

Check it out... crazy white boys!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s06j2R5aCuI

DWB 7460 pts

 ironcowboy  SirLoinDeBeef

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Gabrielle 105 pts

WONDER BREAD!!!!! *sigh* you made such delicious sandwiches...all nice and soft....

Maxine 1005 pts

  Gabrielle Yeah, the only bread you can ball up in your fist into a perfect little white ball! It was fun to do that as a kid.  

Brenda55 19441 pts moderator

For those of you who cannot live with out those nasty Twinkies here is a recipe to make them yourself.

This recipe is much better than that frankenfood that Twinkies became and actually has real eggs and milk and stuff.  You know real food.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/11/16/twilight-twinkie/

DWB 7460 pts

The company was already bankrupt: The owners lost their company, the workers lost their jobs ... the union leaders?

 

They still lead other union shops and are quite comfortable. Sleeping in warm beds. Plenty of presents under the tree. Lot o' food on the table.

 

Yea, let us blame:

 

Capitalism

 

America

 

Evil white racist Republicans

 

Personally, I blame Bush.

ironcowboy 324 pts

 DWB Bush lied, and Twinkies died! 

Veron 1400 pts

Hostess was on its way out of business anyway, they're just trying to put the blame on the union strike.  Instead of trying to adjust to the market and grow capital, they continued to take on debt, and then sold said debt to hedge funds, who decided, after the strike, that Hostess wasn't worth bailing out again (after being bailed out like 10 times since their last bankruptcy in 2004).  Not to mention, half the reason why the bakers union went on strike was because a new CEO was being paid crazy money while the employees were being asked to swallow pay cuts and benefit reductions.  

 

I'm sorry so many people are losing their jobs, but this was a company that needed to close.  Not so much because their products were absolutely awful in every way, but more because they practiced irresponsibly risky business.

ironcowboy 324 pts

 Veron Exactly... a crappy product that is uncompetitive...like how GM went out of business with a crappy product and was uncompetitive... Um wait a minute... GM got bailed out!... I guess the UAW has better love making skills with Mr. Obamster than the National Bakers Union Local 3!   Why does Mr Obama get to pick and choose what union jobs live or die?  It's like Obama is the CEO of Bain Capital! 

Veron 1400 pts

 ironcowboy Because twinkies and a near infrastructural industry product are so comparable.  Great job trolling.

AshleyFisher 390 pts

I know they made unhealthy food and stuff but 18,000 people just lost their jobs. How come no one cares about that?

Christelyn 8743 pts moderator

 AshleyFisher As I understand, Hostess is shuttering because the workers went on strike. It was a gamble they lost, I suppose.

KTW1 177 pts

 Christelyn   AshleyFisher I don't think it's entirely fair to pin the collapse of the company on labor. NPR did a piece on this yesterday, and they had an (impartial) brand strategist say that the Hostess brand had such a negative reputation that it was bound to go under.

Maxine 1005 pts

Hostess has bakers???  By "baker" they mean the people that dump vats of mystery ingredients into machines and pluck the burnt ones from conveyor belts.

SFbyDay 218 pts

Over 18.500 people out of work. Twinkie is not the only product from this comany. They also make quite a few bread brands. Some like Nature's Pride that use all natural ingredients and are healthy. There are countless numbers of unhealthy snacks that will still be available. So I don't get the happiness over a company this size going out of business.As far as the $20 whore joke, I suggest you read a book on addiction or modern day slavery. A big percentage of girls/women who end up in the sex trade are trafficked into it or there because of addictions. I don't think too many are doing it because they enjoy sucking strange dicks.It seems that anything to do with obesity brings out the mean girl tendencies in you.

Christelyn 8743 pts moderator

 SFbyDay "It seems that anything to do with obesity brings out the mean girl tendencies in you." OMG...some of ya'll come in here determined to be offended. You've been here for a minute--you KNOW I have an irreverent sense of humor on ALL things. It's MY STYLE. GET OVER IT. I suppose you won't be satisfied until I boo hoo and wail over any and all things. Here's a thought: you don't like what I write? Stop signing on.

SFbyDay 218 pts

 Christelyn  That's the hard part. I do find most of what you do very valuable. But when it comes to obesity what you write is just offensive sometimes. In one post you wrote that overweight women that say they have bf's should remember the phrase "jump off". You don't think that's uncalled for? Also untrue, someone is buying those plus size wedding gowns.

Christelyn 8743 pts moderator

 SFbyDay I'd like to see the post where I said that. Show me.

SFbyDay 218 pts

 Christelyn  It was actually in an article you wrote. Not in the comment section. So it would be pretty easy for you to do a search of your work vs. me trying to look through all your past articles. I'm not making things up. I think you do great work here for the most part or I wouldn't keep coming back. But this type of fat shaming bothers me. The $20 whore comment - I know it's socially acceptable to make jokes about prostitutes. But really if you educated yourself about how these women end up as sex workers the jokes wouldn't roll so easily off your tongue. Jokes like that contribute to the dehumanizing of these women and make it even easier for them to be exploited. Not your one joke, but the attitude of society that make those jokes seem ok and even funny to some people.

BWWithOtherBrothers 421 pts

 SFbyDay  Christelyn  Oh brother. Fat shaming? Fat folks shame themselves by being fat which 90% is a voluntary action. And how did the leap go from twinkies to sex work? Gimme a flippin break some of yall are much too picky regarding FREE content!

SFbyDay 218 pts

 Christelyn  Just now had a chance to go look for this. There you go. Cut and paste from one of your posts. Just wanted to show I wasn't making this up. But clearly you have no interest in my feedback. So I will take your suggestion and not sign in again.

 

“I guess this isn’t a good time to bring up the terms, “hit it and quit it” or “jump off.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve overheard a man say freely that he’ll sleep with a rotund woman for a variety of crass reasons but wouldn’t dream of getting serious.”

Christelyn 8743 pts moderator

 SFbyDay Well, now, I hope it makes you sleep better tonight. Glad you got your closure, since you've obviously been having this on your mind for nearly a month. Merry Christmas!

WilliamHogan 190 pts

Listening to the radio this morning, the host of the show was saying it may be due to a lack of relevancy and no innovation from Hostess. She remembers when she was a child that every classmate she knew, had a Twinkie in their lunch box, and she doesn't fill her kid's lunch box with Twinkies, not because she dislikes them, but because there are better tasting and healthier foods available.

Law Wanxi 5792 pts

I smell money here.

 

For a good price, a person could buy the Intellectual Property portion of Hostess Brands, Inc. Stuff like trademarks and recipes can be had separate from the production operations. Maybe also buy a couple of their most efficient plants. Then disassemble the plants, such as was done with the Budd Company, an auto-parts maker. Hire about 30 of their best now-unemployed workers and move the whole mess off-shore, to China or the Philippines. I add the Philippines because they have a lot of love for American brands, like Tide, for example. There is a whole big P&G operation in the Philippines. Chinese people will eat any kind of crap and so the snack cake division is a natural winner. Reformulate the recipes to use Real Sugar because of the lower cost. Stick "Real American" in front of the product name, so that "Twinkies" becomes "Real American Twinkies", etc and recoup costs via sales and cheap labour.

 

Then wait a couple of years and export to the USA. Use catalogue retailers such as The Vermont Country Store, which has a thing for old-time brands, to do the in-country merchandising. By 2020, you'll be able to buy, at a premium price "Real American Ding-Dongs" made in China. 

 

Does anybody have the number for Bain Capital? They have a proven track-record for this kind of thing and I hear that one of their former executives is looking for work. 

SirLoinDeBeef 2504 pts

 Law Wanxi I'm not really sure I wanna eat a real American ding-dong - now, if you could find a way to add, say, felines ...

DWB 7460 pts

 SirLoinDeBeef  Law Wanxi You down with OPP??????

Brenda55 19441 pts moderator

 DWB 

I deleted my NO! response because it was causing my page to load odd and it seems it came off harsher than intended such is the nature of online communications. I thought your post to Sirloin was a hoot.  

 

DWB 7460 pts

 Brenda55 I liked the NO response! ;-)

 

(I originally had a smiley rolling on the floor laughing but it also caused problems)

 

I knew you were having fun...

 

EarthJeff 3305 pts

 SirLoinDeBeef  Law Wanxi You could always try a TastyKake (rolling my eyes...)

zabeth 817 pts

If this was really about people changing their dietary habits why are other companies that sell junk food profitable?

 

uninterracial 948 pts

I won't be shedding any tears for this companies demise. To survive, they could at least made their products healthy, but people still like to eat this junk. SMH. There is a certain grocery store chain that is NOT a cheapo store that usually an entire Hostess kiosk centered in front of the self-check out registers. For the life of me I can't figure out why a store that prides themselves in having the freshest, best quality food would put such crap right by the registers. Oh well.

DWB 7460 pts

I LOVED Twinkies when I was a kid!

 

I took a bite out of one a couple of years ago and spit it out.

 

Question to my child self: What the HECK were you thinking!!!!!!

Law Wanxi 5792 pts

 DWB 

Back when you were a kid, they probably used real sugar instead of HFCS. If you can, get a bottle of Mexican Coca-cola. The Mexican stuff uses real sugar, as does Coca-cola from the Philippines or China. You'll find the taste is much better. Cane sugar is priced artificially high in the USA; it's the cheapest thing going in the rest of the world. HFCS is also marginally easier to use in the manufacturing process, because it is more stable than Cane Sugar syrup. 

DWB 7460 pts

 Law Wanxi And that would explain why the Mt. Dew I've been drinking DOES taste better than I remember ... they use real sugar in some cases they are selling around here.

 

And now, when I tell my kids about how things were better when I was a kid, I'll be right!!!!!!! :-)

Toni_M 18816 pts moderator

 Law Wanxi  DWB I went through this recently with Count Chocula. Bought a box "for old time's sake" and I never finished a bowl full. :|

DWB 7460 pts

 Toni_M  Law Wanxi The cereal part of Boo Berry still tastes good, but the "marshmallows" are always so stale! I probably DON'T want to know what they are made of!

ASwirlGirl 3031 pts

 DWB I used to love Twinkies too - and I had the same experience! I can't eat any Hostess products - they taste like CRAP.

dasdbobb 1380 pts

Now y'all have a reason to make more of  my recipes!  LOLOLOLOL!!!

Law Wanxi 5792 pts

 dasdbobb 

We don't need another reason; your stuff is magnificent!

 

JennMJack 1180 pts

See the news later for massive pickets and sit-ins at Hostess bakeries. They'll be chanting "Type 2 Diabetes! Type 2 Diabetes!"

Brenda55 19441 pts moderator

"$20 whore giving fellatio."

 

So that what they're charging these days.

Bargain.

Brenda55 19441 pts moderator

I have no idea how this company managed to stay in business as long as it did.

I ate Twinkies once.  One bite. Tossed the rest. 

It is my understanding that no self respecting bacteria would be caught dead on one which is why they never spoil.

 

In Philly we have TastyKake. Not as good as they used to be but far,far better than Hostess.

 

P.S.

They should get rid of Little Debbie.  They suck rocks also.