Twinkies...gone forever?

[bob48]

I hope that I will give geek ample chance to inspect the spikey parts of my boots - at very close quarters I may add.

[Centurion40]

I can like without the Twinkies.  This is what I'm going to miss:

[Staggerwing]

^The apple ones were the bestest ever! I haven't had one in a quarter century or so. Also, is it my faulty memory or did they make a chocolate filled version?

[mirth]

I'll be okay without Twinkies. I consumed several lifetimes worth when I was 16.

[bayonetbrant]

the judge has ordered them into mediation before they can sell off the company (or its parts).

looks like the union might get a do-over, but if the bakers negotiate a better deal than the other unions, what happens when those others decide to renegotiate to the same deal as the bakers and suddenly they're out of business again for spiraling labor costs.

[mirth]

the judge has ordered them into mediation before they can sell off the company (or its parts).

looks like the union might get a do-over, but if the bakers negotiate a better deal than the other unions, what happens when those others decide to renegotiate to the same deal as the bakers and suddenly they're out of business again for spiraling labor costs.

Poison Twinkies from China?

[Staggerwing]

Yeah. The creamy white stuff inside will be Melamine frosting...

[mirth]

Ummm...Melamine

[Centurion40]

^The apple ones were the bestest ever! I haven't had one in a quarter century or so. Also, is it my faulty memory or did they make a chocolate filled version?

They did!!

[bayonetbrant]

And interesting perspective on Hostess from George Will - in part comparing Hostess to GM

Amazingly, Washington did not offer Hostess a bailout. This discriminatory policy may be a constitutional violation — denial of equal protection of the laws.

Since the onset of the financial crisis, the government has decided that some SIFIs are TBTF — some systemically important financial institutions are too big to fail. Why, any fair-minded person will ask, was Hostess not TBTF?

Granted, it was not big in the technical, crabbed, hairsplitting, narrow-minded way that "big" is normally understood, as a boring matter of mere size. It was, however, big in what matters most — in boomers' minds. They fondly remember opening their Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy or Davy Crockett lunchboxes at school and finding Twinkies nestled next to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made of Wonder Bread (another endangered Hostess species). Stendhal said that the only way ice cream could be better is if it were a sin. Boomers, a generation of food scolds, became adults who considered Twinkies and other sugary things sinful. They should be shedding scalding tears of remorse.

Anyway, why GM and not Hostess? The Troubled Assets Relief Program, a.k.a. TARP, was passed to rescue financial institutions. But Washington reasoned: "What's legality among cronies?" So soon TARP was succoring GM, which was not a financial institution. It was not even a car company. It was a health-care provider unsuccessfully trying to sell cars fast enough to generate enough revenue to pay health benefits for its employees and approximately twice as many retirees.

[GDS_Starfury]

maybe they werent offered a bailout because of the first bitches ladys fat campaign.

[Longdan]

Sometimes I do not want to be seen with you guys.

[GDS_Starfury]

dont lie.

you love us.