[jkels]

For one I think twinkies are getting all the credit. Hostess makes tons of other (better) snacks than just twinkies. However everyone keeps talking about this bankruptcy as new news, but it's been done before, in 2004. Plus they've already had offers to buy various branches of their company. Will twinkies ever really die?

[soapykitty]

They'll never die because Little Debbie and a bunch of other junk food companies have their own version of Twinkies.

[JimmyInGreatLakes]

Not a big fan of Twinkies but Ding Dongs are awesome.

[animatedmartian]

I usually eat honey buns. But Hostess is just like any other company and can disappear like the rest of them no matter how popular.

[Bydand]

Haven't bought a Hostess product in a couple years, too high priced for the crap you actually get. Not going to miss them one tiny little bit.

[Jwo85]

Unionized labor at it again to ruin their jobs. Want more money from a company struggling.

[HomeIsWhere...]

Originally Posted by Bydand

Haven't bought a Hostess product in a couple years, too high priced for the crap you actually get. Not going to miss them one tiny little bit.

Haven't bought a Hostess product in a couple of decades...just nasty stuff.

[AJ Granger]

Originally Posted by Bydand

Haven't bought a Hostess product in a couple years, too high priced for the crap you actually get. Not going to miss them one tiny little bit.

I am a little different. I don't think I have EVER bought a Hostess product, although I have had them. Yet, despite zero desire to ever eat them again, for some reason I like knowing they are there. I just like seeing them in 7-11. I don't know why. Maybe because with as much crap as I eat, at least I am not stooping to that level of crap.

[mostie]

I think Twinkies are disgusting, the cream inside tastes like it was infused with vegetable oil, and the cake itself is all damp and icky, lol. Have any of you seen the boxes of Twinkies on ebay, selling for hundreds of dollars? And people are actually bidding on them, lol!

However, Ding Dongs rock, lol.

[Coldjensens]

This is not just old news about the bankruptcy. They are liquidating. Not reorganizing. Hostess is gone. 18,000 people lost their jobs (go union! Thank you for representing your members so well). Someone may buy the rights to the products, or they may not. Hostess owns several other companies too. Dolly Madison is one I think, I forget the others. For people who grew up int he 1970s this is like Apple dissappearing would be for 90s kids and mellenials. Twinkies are supposed to last forever, so Hostess should too.

Although I have not eaten one in 20 or 30 years, they are a part of our society. seeing hostess products and advertising in gas station stores is a link to our childhood. We ate them frequently as kids. Even people who did not eat them, still talked about them. they were advertised regularly, jokes about, discussed, argued over. Twinkies were part of society for a long time. Everyone knew they supposedly had a shelf life of over 30 years if unopened. They were survival food. They are lionized in the movie Zombieland. I can still remember what they taste like (basically wet sugar). They are inextricably imprinted in my memory. When I was in college I had a twinkie in my lunch every day and also a sandwich, a banana and chips. I will refrain from posting what the gal I liked would do with the banana and the twinkie to tease me because she thought I was too square or innocent or something, but it was funny and memorable, not something I will ever forget. I think everyone has a twinkie story. (However I always liked Ho Hos better.)

I tried to get my wife to go buy out all the twinkies at Kroger on Friday, but she was busy. Missed an opportunity for big dollar E-bay sales over the next thirty years. the whole zombieland obsessionwith twinkies is only partly a joke, there actually are people like that. The last box of twinkies will probably sell for thousands. I am not sure whether they are gone from the markets yet. They will sell off the remamining stock for some time. Maybe they have a 30 year supply stored up.