I was sad at first, but then I realized I didn't actually like Hostess that much, the only product I ate more than once was twinkies and that was like once a year. Might as well buy them out since they last forever and a zombie apocalypse might come soon .
I love Little Debbie though, especially the Oatmeal Creme Pie and Cosmic Brownie.
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I never liked them, I always felt a bit ill after eating them, but I'll miss seeing them in stores if they don't get sold off to another company. Not that it will happen, I mean there are tons of generic offbrand twinkie imitations out there already and those won't stop being produced. It'll just be a little weird to not walk by aisle endcaps and see the familiar packaging of one of the most disgusting pastries ever made.
Obama is the president of the United States, not the King of the US, and not a genie. Your dislike, anger, and fear is based on a misunderstanding. You only feel that way because the president is more or less the face man for all the rest of the elected officials. Which are voted for by the people, your people, thus it is YOUR (and my, and every other American's) America. If any other person was president, so long as the rest of the elected officials were the same, not much would change. Obama is actually pretty decent as far as presidents go.
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There Right-wing flailers. I did your work for you. Now you can spend time on other threads.
The company failed to adapt to changing eating habits trending towards "healthier" foods. Their improved wonder variants were way overpriced compared to alternatives
Infracted.
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Twinkies, you won't be missed.
"Laws should be made of iron, not of pudding."
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
- King Stannis Baratheon
"I just wanted them to hand us our award! But they were just talk!, talk!, talk!......" - Wrathion
The problem is the workers actually were ready to agree to take pay cuts and benefit cuts, but werent willing to give up their pensions as well, Hostess wants to stop paying (because hostess is bankrupt, they've been losing money since 2004, and has just been borrowing more money at huge interest rates), but then everyone loses their retirement, its just a losing situation all around, dissolution of the company is really the only thing that could happen. Of course, even with a failing company going bankrupt again, the CEO takes home over a million a year (and, during the first bankruptcy, the top executives still get to near double their salaries). Supposedly the only thing hostess makes a profit on is Twinkies, everything else is a loss.
Everyone is always so quick to jump to the side of the corporations, seriously, this is an entity that is made specifically to screw you out of your money. Its only purpose is to increase stock prices at all costs, there is no other reason for a corporation to exist (Its a coalition of anonymous faceless trolls, only in real life). Just ask yourself, what have unions done for you, then ask yourself what have corporations done for you. If you enjoy having a 40 hour work week, a weekend, overtime pay, the ability to go school (unions are the ones who pushed for the abolishment of child labor), health benefits, medical leave, go say thank you to a union organizer. Whereas the corporate structure is made to profit regardless of the non-monetary cost (because worst case, it was a corporate decision) and protect their decision makers from legal issues. (There are probably other things we have benefitted from due to a corporate structure over the proprietorship alternative, but i do not know any)
Ill miss hostess sometimes, i used to have an iced honey bun every year on my birthday, i imagine i still will for many decades, those things last forever... But, those things are HORRIBLE for you, its 60% of your daily recommended fat intake, im not eating that more than once a year no matter how good it tastes.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!