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 Post subject: Re: Hostess to Close--No more Twinkies and HoHos.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:26 pm 
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By 'vintage' I hope you mean so we can tell the good years from the more normal years, and the dreaded bad years. :lol: :P


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:52 pm 
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Chances are they will not have you reached their expiration date.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:56 pm 
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Darcie wrote:
But now the real question: did anyone buy Twinkies to resell on ebay in 15 years as "Vintage"?
Today I noticed that the vending machine at work still has one package of Dolly Madison Zingers (Twinkies by another name, also made by Hostess). They've loaded Tastykakes behind it in the row.

Despite common perception I don't think they'd last very long in storage. The sell-by date is only a couple of weeks out.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:47 pm 
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Kathy's Pete wrote:

Despite common perception I don't think they'd last very long in storage. The sell-by date is only a couple of weeks out.

Yeah, but I've seen people sell 20 year old boxes of Wheaties. I assume the bag would be full of dead weevils or something. You know someone thinks they've stumbled onto a gold mine!


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:07 pm 
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Da Bull Man wrote:
This appears to have had a win / lose/ draw option. As is turned out Management won, labor lost, recipes will be sold, another company will be in the business of supplying Ding Dongs, Ho Ho's, and Twinkies in the future and life will return to a new state of "normal" whatever that might be...and the capitalist wheel keeps grinding away...


I'd say that's a good summary. The only thing I'd add here is that the courts really failed to make a sufficient effort to look after the interests of workers and shareholders. The shareholders lost out of this, too.

However, aside from management getting away with it, it's hard for me to care otherwise. I've not eaten a Hostess product in 20 years.

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And with the final word going to "The Fuzzy" I would love to declare but will only suggest that we all get off this horse and back to food. :|


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To make this about food again, Becca made a Twinkie Bundt Cake. I'm assuming inspiration came from this site: http://sweetapolita.com/2012/11/twinkie-bundt-cake/

I'd like to make, but looking for an easier way to fill in the hollow of the cake. Hmmmmm.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:12 pm 
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Jean,

Before I clicked the link, I had a horrible vision of 2 dozen twinkies, glued together with supermarket frosting and jammed into a bundt pan.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 8:22 am 
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One more article with another perspective:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... Collection

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:26 am 
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TheFuzzy wrote:
Da Bull Man wrote:

However, aside from management getting away with it, it's hard for me to care otherwise. I've not eaten a Hostess product in 20 years.


Ya know...I haven't eaten a twinkie in years...but now...I really do kinda want one! :cry:

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