Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[HaRuMaN]

No more twinkies?

http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-closing/

What are we supposed to look forward to when the zombie apocalypse hits?

[TopJimmyCooks]

heard about that on NPR - sounded like a ploy to get striking Hostess workers back in the gate? 

If its for real I'm going to 7-11 right noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[ChadTower]

heard about that on NPR - sounded like a ploy to get striking Hostess workers back in the gate? 

That is the NPR slant.  The reality is that the striking workers aren't actually Hostess employees.  They are supplier employees.  Can't get the supplies they need to make their products so  they can't make their products. 

[Nephasth]

What are we supposed to look forward to when the zombie apocalypse hits?

[JMB]

This was the greatest Hostess invention ever.

[Vigo]

[Vigo]

Another casualty is the Hostess fruit pie.....now what are superheroes going to use to save the day?

[Hoopz]

I'll probably take a few hits for this, but Zingers are a great alternative to Twinkies.   

[lordnacho]

I threw up in my mouth thinking about these.  Vanilla' Puddin' Power

[Vigo]

I threw up in my mouth thinking about these.  Vanilla' Puddin' Power

Did it teach you the secret of the ooze?

[GibsonRiddler]

I'll probably take a few hits for this, but Zingers are a great alternative to Twinkies.   

Zingers are gone too. They are made by Hostess

[ChadTower]

Their announcement said they are going to liquidate their brands.  That means the products may well continue to be available once they are sold off and production moved into the new owners' facilities.

[Vigo]

I think it is kinda funny, but some people are flipping out. I went to Walmart to find some Twinkies to bring for my office dept this morning and all the shelves were cleared. It was like a real Twinkie scare going on. I found some CupCakes and Donnettes at least, but there was this dude there who started freaking out in the snack cake isle. He was ranting about how Obama needs to declare this a national crisis and bring in the national guard to bring the factories back into production. He also said how it was all a conspiracy. He said that the Hostess executives they hired were (no joke) "agents of China" in a plot to take America down by sabotaging the company so that China can have more control over our food supply.     




Replace the Penguin with China, and you have pretty much the same the evil conspiracy that this guy was telling me about. 

[GibsonRiddler]

Haven't had a Twinkee in years. With all the talk today I've started craving one.

[SNAAKE]

Haven't had a Twinkee in years. With all the talk today I've started craving one.

I was thinking the exact same thing

NOW I feel to need to have one

[Well Fed Games]

Worse yet, kids who grow up in this post-hostess world won't have context when watching UHF.

[danny_galaga]

Worse yet, kids who grow up in this post-hostess world won't have context when watching UHF.

Dunno, haven't the faintest about most domestic American sweets, and I still enjoyed UHF.

Always sad when popular brands disappear though...

[SavannahLion]

None of you realize the true scope of this. Skript Kiddie production will virtually cease once the world Twinkie supply runs out.

Once Twinkie Casserole's become impossible to make, Kiddie's will only have Mountain Dew and cut LSD to depend on.

In all seriousness, a previous poster mentioned that (assuming this isn't a bluff to break the unions) someone else will pick up the Twinkie and manufacture it under their own brand. Twinkie is a serious cash cow. Someone, somewhere, I'm sure there's a CEO that's just salivating at the thought of grabbing this food product.

Still.....

[SNAAKE]

before clicking thread I thought you were quitting pad haxing or something lol

nooooooooooo I cant do this anymore

[vanrose72]

I Wonder what Ding Dongs got us into this Zinger. Now the Ghostbusters no longer have a way of gauging the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area.

[jennifer]

   Jennifer....Are you ok?....Jen?

[lordnacho]

Worse yet, kids who grow up in this post-hostess world won't have context when watching UHF.

Another Weird Al

[Chevron]

just to throw this in there.

What the hell is a twinkie?

[DNA Dan]

The chocodile is by far the best twinkie incarnation. As for availability, they will be back. Once they sell the assets to some Chinese company you can guarantee they will return to market smaller in size and be a huge windfall profit by being "re-introduced". I don't mind if they mess with size, but if they mess with the recipe, that will be the end of it.

[jennifer]

The chocodile is by far the best twinkie incarnation. As for availability, they will be back. Once they sell the assets to some Chinese company you can guarantee they will return to market smaller in size and be a huge windfall profit by being "re-introduced". I don't mind if they mess with size, but if they mess with the recipe, that will be the end of it.

  Bigger is better...It just is, In fact Jennifer wants a HUGE Twinkie, The size of my arm, One I can barely get in my mouth.

[Nephasth]

Bigger is better...It just is, In fact Jennifer wants a HUGE Twinkie, The size of my arm, One I can barely get in my mouth.

 

[jennifer]

    Multiple would be fun too, Like one in each hand....Oh, I so need a Twinkie right now.

[yotsuya]

    Multiple would be fun too, Like one in each hand....Oh, I so need a Twinkie right now.

[DNA Dan]

Like I said, the Chocodile is the best twinkie incarnation.