Twinkies...gone forever?

[Tpek]

Isn't this how Zombieland began??? :D

[OJsDad]

Is this situation is another New Coke?

Hostess has been suffering falling sales for many years now.  They haven't gotten on the health food bandwagon or tried to reformulate the product.   
Now we have the threat of 'no more Twinkies oh noes' to induce panic buying.  In a few days most of the baked goods will be gone from the retail stores. 

Since the unions didn't "play ball" they get blamed for the closing.  Meanwhile the executives responsible for restructuring will get a big payoff.

Of course the American people won't stand for the loss of their cherished American icon. 

Soon after Hostess brings back the Twinkie to great fanfare.

Actually, they were already in bankruptcy and the bankruptcy judge had sided with Hostess on the new contract terms.  All others unions representing different parts of Hostess employees had already agreed to the same terms that the bakers union rejected.  The union leadership for the bakers just screwed about 18,500 people out of their jobs.  Happy Holidays !!!  I wonder if the 70% of those that are losing their jobs because of the one union can sue the union. 

Hopefully most of this 70% will be able to get their jobs back if someone comes along and buys up some of the pieces.

[Longdan]

Wasn't that twinkie the mayor of Halifax?

[LongBlade]

And now people are trying to sell boxes of them on Ebay.

Some are going for as much as $80 a box (asking price).

http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/16/boxes-of-twinkies-ho-hos-going-for-100-and-more-on-ebay/

[Staggerwing]

Those silly bidders still don't realize that the half-life of a Twinkie sends even Plutonium into an emotional crisis of inadequacy. Indeed, when the heat-death of the Universe manifests itself there will be no one left to eat the still-viable twinkies.

[besilarius]

Sigh!
I remember seeing Twinkies and Cupcakes being shilled by Buffalo Bob on Howdie Doody in the early fifties.

[GDS_Starfury]

they had tv back then?  WOW!   ;)

[TheCommandTent]

Snagged one of the few remaining boxes off the shelf at the local Wal-Mart on the way home tonight. Maybe I should try to sell it on eBay. :)  Screw it I am just gonna eat them and enjoy it.

[Staggerwing]

Hey, after eating those twinkies maybe you too can survive the heat-death of the Universe...

[LongBlade]

The IP for those items has to be worth something. Someone will buy the name if nothing else. I seriously doubt they're gone for good.

Probably there are several buyers already in the wings putting deals together.

[son_of_montfort]

They are going to auction off the property. Given the some 3 billion dollars (and much of that from the millions of Twinkies and loaves of Wonderbread), these are hot ticket items. Some bakery company (probably Bimbo, yes Bimbo, the world's largest bread baker) will grab those twinkies. I don't know why they need bakers in the bakers union, however. I would have thought that the miners and chemists unions would be responsible for the Twinkie, given the ingredients.

[DoctorQuest]

they had tv back then?  WOW!   ;)

Oh, yes, we did. But the universe had not expanded beyond black and white yet.

[MetalDog]

you up for my balls in your face tomorrow?

That is one of the funniest things I have EVER read on any forum!  And kudos to bob for taking it all in stride :-)

[GDS_Starfury]

yes Bob, great way to take it on the chin.

[undercovergeek]

you up for my balls in your face tomorrow?

That is one of the funniest things I have EVER read on any forum!  And kudos to bob for taking it all in stride :-)

I can think of no better way to invite bob to a little blood bowl MP!