Hostess files for bankruptcy

Say it ain't so! Let's dedicate this thread to talk about our love for twinkies or other Hostess products!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/twinkies-maker-hostess-brands-files-for-ch-11-bankruptcy-protection/2012/01/11/gIQA2YeYqP_story.html

Cue the jokes about Twinkies surviving longer than Hostess.

Bethesda should pick up the twinkie rights and put them in fallout because they'll survive nuclear winter.

Unsurprising. The only people who that shit are stoners.

With consumers a lot more health conscious than they were in the past, this comes as no surprise. It's a good thing people are shifting towards more healthy choices, yet it still makes me kind of sad to see  products I loved disappear. I was born in the seventies, so I grew up in an age where everything was unhealthy crap. Delicious unhealthy crap. It's not so much that these products disappear, never to be had again, rather another reminder that I'm getting old. Getting old really sucks.

pretty crazy. frendlyz went out of business, or the one that was in my town near me.

Quickly everyone, buy 1000 twinkies and send them to the WM offices! It's the only way to save our Hostess!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO im off to buy to many Twinkies.

Well, hopefully those Twinkies someone sent the guys a few years ago are still good. And it would be very scary if they are either still around or if the guys actually ate them all because Twinkies are gross.

Quickly everyone, buy 1000 twinkies and send them to the WM offices! It's the only way to save our Hostess!

Not sure if the people posting this earlier had this in mind or if it's a coincidence, but they DID receive 775 Twinkies in the mail once.

With consumers a lot more health conscious than they were in the past, this comes as no surprise. It's a good thing people are shifting towards more healthy choices, yet it still makes me kind of sad to see  products I loved disappear. I was born in the seventies, so I grew up in an age where everything was unhealthy crap. Delicious unhealthy crap. It's not so much that these products disappear, never to be had again, rather another reminder that I'm getting old. Getting old really sucks.

Good! People need to stop eating bad foods.

TIME TO STOCK UP!

This thread is making me want to buy Twinkies and I haven't had one in at least 10 years.

What! No! Almost tempted to get on a plane to buy a lifetimes' supply of Twinkies! 
 
@Dany said:

Good! People need to stop eating bad foods.

@ninjakiller said:

Unsurprising. The only people who that shit are stoners.

@Fajita_Jim said:

@uniform said:

With consumers a lot more health conscious than they were in the past, this comes as no surprise. It's a good thing people are shifting towards more healthy choices, yet it still makes me kind of sad to see products I loved disappear. I was born in the seventies, so I grew up in an age where everything was unhealthy crap. Delicious unhealthy crap. It's not so much that these products disappear, never to be had again, rather another reminder that I'm getting old. Getting old really sucks.

I'm right there with you, bud. Young people these days don't know what GOOD french fries are. They're about this big and they fit in your arteries, that's how good they are. Remember when TV dinners came in tin trays and tasted like food? Yup, that was bad for us. Now we have to eat shit so shat up by artificial flavors (because that meat patty has been processed 50 times and rejected 49) that everything you buy tastes like the shit it's packed in.

I just make healthy food at home that tastes roughly ten million times better than anything that has come in a tin in the past 50 years...and I'm not a 5 star chef by any means. Hostess is no different. Just bake something delicious at home and skip the epic piece of crap that is vacuum packaged, greasy "baked goods".

The only thing that sucks about this news are the job losses that may happen, which is always terrible.

Not a big Twinkie fan, but those Hostess Cupcake things were always cool.

Oh, and Zingers. So gross, but so good at the same time.

I'm going to stockpile massive quantities of Twinkies and sell them when the price skyrockets. I'll make millions.

I had to go to a Hostess outlet shop to find these things called "Chocodiles". They don't normally sell them in regular outlets around here. If they did? We'd be bitching about how Hostess has so much money, they bought T-Mobile AND AT&T.

Maybe they changed the recipe a while ago, but I had one of the cupcakes and yuck. The chocolate top was like corn syrup that had congeeled into a waxy lid. Kind of like a pudding skin.

NOOOOO!! That was the stuff! That was the stuff!

Honestly, I don't care. I haven't had a Twinkie since I was a teenag....HEY! WHERE'S THE CREAM FILLING?

fruit pies?

fruit piss

Eh, worst that happens is they get bought up by Nabisco or Kraft and become another brand in a larger food products corp's stable. Other than the inevitable job losses (which sucks, don't get me wrong), all we'll see is a change in packaging or marketing.

No one in their right mind would let Twinkies die off, someone will pay absurd amounts of money for the rights and recipe and become even richer.

Everyone, a moment of silence for Woody Harrelson's character from Zombieland...

Impossible. Twinkies don't have an expiration date.

Where's the Ringolos love? It sucks that so many people are going to be out of a job, but it's good that this shit is going away.

@Rudyftw said:

Impossible. Twinkies don't have an expiration date.

Bad business models do.

Personally, I take the potential loss of hostess fruit pies very seriously. And you all should too, because they're wonderful.

I prefer Little Debbies stuff myself. Plus there is a factory in a nearby town so all the grocery stores stock nothing but Little Debbies products around here since it's so easy to get fresh new stock.

They're supposed to last us through the zombie apocalypse. Tallahassee was eating one long after they stopped producing.

@GooieGreen said:

@Rudyftw said:

Impossible. Twinkies don't have an expiration date.

Bad business models do.

..... :/

I'm just kinda sad that I won't get to try one of those deep fried Twinkies with a lil chocolate syrup drizzled on top. I'm not even sure where they sell those.

Breaking news, indeed.

Bull shit. I am gonna get Twinkies now.

No one made a joke regarding a prostitute going out of business? For shame. I expected more from this place. I mean, it's right there in the title!

Hostess failed to diversify and offer alternate, more healthy snacks. Plus, they couldn't compete against the perfection that is the Drake's Coffee Cake.

I guess I truly have nothing else to live for now.

@PenguinDust: except that they own drakes....

Let's hope Woody Harrelson doesn't hear of this.

Hostess will find a way to survive.

Everything Hostess makes is pretty disgusting.

EDIT: Wait.. Hostess are the guys who make Fruit Pies? Disregard everything I just said.

I didn't even know they were still around. I remember Hostess chips from when I was little but that's it.

@uniform:

And yet there are many more fatties in this 'health conscious age'.

@Zidd said:

@PenguinDust: except that they own drakes....

Wow, I grew up with Drakes being the chief competitor to Hostess. Now, I read that the two were combined in the late 90's?! That's as unfathomable to me as Coke and Pepsi becoming one company. No good can come of this and eventually, none did.

I knew things were going downhill when they stopped advertising in comic books.

NO GOD DAMN IT NO

I have always wanted to eat a Twinkie, yet I have never visited the states. I must have some, FUCKIN' QUICK LIKE.

@uniform:

'health conscious age'.

Are there brown twinkies? Chocolate twinkies? If not, I just saved Hostess.

hostess makes some good tasting shit.

they lost my business though as i try to eat a less sugary foods now. could they have at least made some products without HFCS? guess not, but some respect to the CEO for going down with his ship and refusing to give in to weight conscious people. (PS making twinkies smaller does not really help people watching their figure.)

i recommend the Drakes brand to anyone looking for a substitute. Their fruit pies are just as good.

Little Debbie i assume is still doing well, but they really the cost savings brand of the junk food world.

their brownies though are good.