Bye bye Hostess

[RadicalModerate]

How so?

"Bimbos" (from Me-Hee-Ko) be better . . . doh.
WTF U B smokin', mon? =) Sheeeeeeeit.

(please, at your convenience, refer to GoogleLand for clarification. thank you.)

[Stew]

"Bimbos" (from Me-Hee-Ko) be better . . . doh.
WTF U B smokin', mon? =) Sheeeeeeeit.

(please, at your convenience, refer to GoogleLand for clarification. thank you.)

I'm scratching my head trying to figure this out. I get the google part (I think) but please tell me how one uses google to expand on somebody else's opinion?

[RadicalModerate]

Keep scratchin' . . . but go light on your head. =)
(it makes it hard on the scalp without damaging the brain but you wind up looking like a fake wiseguy. =)

(p.s.: no fast junk food b gud fer ya . .. wryte?)

Translation: "Hostess Products" lost all their "Value" when they transitioned from being exchangable in terms of 1-Hostess Fried Pie at the local grocery store for the twenty-five cents you got as a child from a surly, bullying clerk, for 13 recycled pop-bottles at 2-cents each. And then they got worse and more expensive. OK? =)

As an adult . . . shopping the aisles of my most convenient grocery providers (for cooking stuff and etc.) I was at first amused by "Bimbo" (foods, hechodemexico). I hope that Bimbos will continue to make Twinkies (etc/so forth) available to the Hungering Masses Yearning to Eat S.... and attempt to figure out how Google and Facebook and Twitter fit into the overall scheme of things... (thanks for the question, Stew . . . really....)

"Hostess Twinkees" . . . indeed, the loss of, (scoff scoff)
(zombieland fer shure . . .?)

[Plutonic Panda]

I'm confused who has the hand that shouldn't be bitten. The way I understand it the Hostess company went out of business while the striking employees live on to work again for another company. Like they say I was looking for a job when you offered me this one.

I've never been a member of a union and quite frankly most of what I know about unions comes from right-wing blowhards. So my understanding could be quite naive. The way I see this is the company told its employees hey we're not going to honor our pension promises we made to you previously, we're going to cut your pay and benefits and by the way if you agree with our offer we'll still layoff a good many of you. Well after such a generous offer the employees said eh we think we'll pass. The company said fine then we quit and issued a press release blaming the union for haiving to go out of business which was reported faithfully word for word by the mainstream stenographers.

I can't fault anybody for refusing such a bad one sided deal and it puzzles me why anybody would expect them accept it.

I didn't know they cut out their pensions. If that is really the case then there is some justification for them(the people). BTW The hand I was referring to belonged to Hostess. It's a delicious hand to say the least. Would you have bitten the hand? Better yet THE CLAW! lol.... But, real talk, I really didn't really didn't research this thoroughly.

[RadicalModerate]

I didn't know they cut out their pensions. If that is really the case then there is some justification for them(the people). BTW The hand I was referring to belonged to Hostess. It's a delicious hand to say the least. Would you have bitten the hand? Better yet THE CLAW! lol.... But, real talk, I really didn't really didn't research this thoroughly.

Yet, amazingly, you were close to what it be. =)
Goodbye Hostess . . . Hello Li'l Debbie La Bimbo . . . =)
(new world order doncha know... junk food pipeline etc/so forth)

Perhaps it is time to stand in solidarity with all of the junk/fast food worker providers and just say no to what it is that they (the workers) provide. Oh . . . wait . . . on the surface that doesn't appear to work . . .

i am confidant that mr. obama, channelling the spirit of mr. alinsky, already has all of this figured out

[Plutonic Panda]

Yet, amazingly, you were close to what it be. =)
Goodbye Hostess . . . Hello Li'l Debbie La Bimbo . . . =)
(new world order doncha know... junk food pipeline etc/so forth)

Perhaps it is time to stand in solidarity with all of the junk/fast food worker providers and just say no to what it is that they (the workers) provide. Oh . . . wait . . . on the surface that doesn't appear to work . . .

i am confidant that mr. obama, channelling the spirit of mr. alinsky, already has all of this figured out

Well we could to Lil ol' Debbie's(da bimbo) house and find out what really happened... btw where would this Debbie person you speak of live???? Muffin Lane maybe I'm sure it would be relatively easy to spot though as it would probably have a huge pipeline with lollypops and gummiebears bursting out of it...

[Plutonic Panda]

Oh and if all else fails I'm sure "The Man" mr. obama could find er' up

[RadicalModerate]

No doubt.
(the canadian snack-cake mafia is already on the move in that direction . . .
boatloads of "michelles" (instead of "twinkies") are poised just over the border to invade. =)
(they have already stolen the rights to that old Paul McCartney tune for advertising background)

[kelroy55]

But wait.... looks like there hope for Hostess yet Hostess shutdown on hold - Nov. 19, 2012

[dtwn92]

The union puts the final nail in the coffin. I guess they'll learn the hard way that when you bite off the hand that feeds you, you go hungry.
Hostess shut down: Twinkie maker to go out of business - chicagotribune.com

Didn't read the whole thread and now that we are 3 weeks past the initial incident, I'd like to strong say WHY does anyone say the UNION did this? 2 Bankruptcies (BK's) in 8 or so years. Close to a billion in debt after those Bk's and management that has failed time in again. Oh and BTW a judge just ruled that the exec's now get up to 1.2 million in bonuses and have to liquidate the assess. Funny how 18000 employees lose thier job at a 2.5 BILLION dollar a year company and the UNION did that, right? LOL ok.

[Plutonic Panda]

I think the Union just sped up the inevitable.

[SoonerDave]

Didn't read the whole thread and now that we are 3 weeks past the initial incident, I'd like to strong say WHY does anyone say the UNION did this? 2 Bankruptcies (BK's) in 8 or so years. Close to a billion in debt after those Bk's and management that has failed time in again. Oh and BTW a judge just ruled that the exec's now get up to 1.2 million in bonuses and have to liquidate the assess. Funny how 18000 employees lose thier job at a 2.5 BILLION dollar a year company and the UNION did that, right? LOL ok.

Well, the company was willing to negotiate a deal to keep the company in business afloat at least for a time. They'd already struck a deal with the other major union, so at a minimum/worst case, it was a plan to keep everyone employed even if under less than ideal circumstances in a company that wasn't very healthy. I guess I'm naive, but it seems to me that a short-term paycheck for 18,000 people is better than no paycheck at all.

I'm just saying it wasn't the *company* that walked away from the negotiating table. There was an offer, such as it was, to keep things going and keep people employed. Yes, it isn't as simple as "the union did it," but it isn't as if the company locked the workers out. In the end, yeah, maybe the company still goes belly up in a few months, but there was at least the notion of keeping things going for a while.

[zookeeper]

Well, the company was willing to negotiate a deal to keep the company in business afloat at least for a time. They'd already struck a deal with the other major union, so at a minimum/worst case, it was a plan to keep everyone employed even if under less than ideal circumstances in a company that wasn't very healthy. I guess I'm naive, but it seems to me that a short-term paycheck for 18,000 people is better than no paycheck at all.

I'm just saying it wasn't the *company* that walked away from the negotiating table. There was an offer, such as it was, to keep things going and keep people employed. Yes, it isn't as simple as "the union did it," but it isn't as if the company locked the workers out. In the end, yeah, maybe the company still goes belly up in a few months, but there was at least the notion of keeping things going for a while.

I usually love what you write here and I felt the same until I saw a thing on the news a few nights back that put it into perspective. Bad company really taking it to the workers who voted to go down with the ship, and there's no mistaking it was going down, it took guts to basically quit your job on principle rather than be humiliated by this company taking away what you thought was a deal, all while the management didn't halt their lavish spending on themselves. The company's true colors came through when they got approval from a court for million dollar bonuses.

[WilliamTell]

Others have already said it but like most situations (recently) that involve unions its easy to hate them at first, until you see the whole story. Like the whole thing that happened at American Airlines a few years back, where they wanted to cut wages and lay off people because they lost so much money, then afterwards it came out that management gave themselves millions in bonuses to purposely take the company into the red. Then even more recently in the last year they made the largest purchase of aircraft in the history of the world, then a month later they said they had to cut wages and lay people off because they are in the red...wait, what?

I'm sorry that so many people who worked to make these people millionaires were thrown out on the street. Unfortunately this is the trend now days.

[Plutonic Panda]

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[RadicalModerate]

Maybe Tasty-Kakes will buy them out. I tried one of their products the other day and it was twice as good as Hostess ever was at about the same price.

[Joe Kimball]

I was poking around Walgreen's the other day and noticed the absence of Hostess products was filled by apparent look-alikes under their "Nice!" brand. Their creme-filled sponge cakes looked awfully familiar, so I looked at the wrapper and saw that they were made in Canada. The Hostess brand lives on in Canada, as some here may know, and I can only reasonably conclude that these are actual Twinkies repackaged.

[Snowman]

I was poking around Walgreen's the other day and noticed the absence of Hostess products was filled by apparent look-alikes under their "Nice!" brand. Their creme-filled sponge cakes looked awfully familiar, so I looked at the wrapper and saw that they were made in Canada. The Hostess brand lives on in Canada, as some here may know, and I can only reasonably conclude that these are actual Twinkies repackaged.

As much as they contracted work out, it easily could have been done by one of the same bakeries that worked for Hostess, it may not be the exact mix for Twinkies but they probably had a good idea to makes something close.

[Plutonic Panda]

Well, I fell sorry for anyone that paid hundreds of dollars for a few boxes of Twinkies on eBay lol

Hostess Twinkies return to store shelves next month » Local News » The Edmond Sun

[Snowman]

Well, I fell sorry for anyone that paid hundreds of dollars for a few boxes of Twinkies on eBay lol

Hostess Twinkies return to store shelves next month » Local News » The Edmond Sun

It and any of the other popular lines they had still making money should have been expected to come back eventually, it is surprising the disruption lasted this long. Plus, contrary to some myths the shelf life is under only a few weeks so any from that last batch would be inedible by this point anyway.

[MWCGuy]

This whole Hostess ordeal was a joke for the get go. As what happens with just about every product when the top dog goes under. Competitors 2, 3 and 4 etc. etc. came up with alternatives.

I have found:

Mrs. Baird's make a tastier chocolate covered/powered sugar donut.
Little Debbie and Tastykake have a suitable version of the cupcake and the zinger.
Honeybuns are a dime a dozen just about anybody can make a good one.

The only item I cannot find a replacement for is a snowball. Then again, snowballs were a once a year thing for me. So I can do without them. Twinkee's were the same way not a big fan of angelfood cake unless it comes with strawberries, whip cream and Lauren Nelson. Or at least the first two.

[Tritone]

I liked the cake and the filling in the snowballs, but that covering, while tasty, always reminded me of a rubber shower cap. Twinkies are great, in my opinion, but I would like to see ding dongs again. So would Mrs. Tritone.