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Guitar_Raph
01-11-2012, 06:30 AM
A legendary company has filed for bankruptcy, something we all grew up eating.

Hostess Bakeries is feeling the pinch over healthy eating. Could mean curtains for Twinkie the Kid, Captain Cupcake & Fruit Pie the Magician. as well as Wonder Bread

My favorite Hostess snacks include Orange Cup Cakes, Fruit Pies (Apple, Blueberry, Strawberry, Chocolate) and Donut stix.

Over 20 years ago, Hostess even made TMNT pudding fruit pies for promoting the 1990 TMNT film.

I usually beat the cost of high prices & get my Hostess snacks @ a Hostess bakery thrift store. They had one nearby in Garland, but was shut down. Now I have to travel to the southwest side of Dallas just to get my Hostess cravings.

Candy Kappa
01-11-2012, 12:17 PM
We don;t have Hostess here in Norway, but the commercials in old superhero comics are gems

MikeandRaph87
01-11-2012, 01:35 PM
Those Twinkies ads in the comics are campy yet entertaining to say the least. They are in almost all of the 1970s and early 1980s comics I own. What was the exact timeframe these appeared in comics if anyone knows?

Candy Kappa
01-11-2012, 01:56 PM
I don't know, but I think some where in some of the the 60's X-Men issues

Sword Slicin' Leo
01-11-2012, 04:01 PM
you think with news like this people would be thinner, but no, still fatasses EVERYWHERE

ZariusTwo
01-11-2012, 04:53 PM
Those Hostess comics are still more intelligently written than anything Marvel have produced in the last decade.

BubblyShell22
01-11-2012, 07:56 PM
Hey, GR, can't you get Hostess products in any of your local stores? They sell them everywhere. Hell, Mom and I just got some Hostess Zingers today. Those are my favorites. I also like the cupcakes.

Guitar_Raph
01-12-2012, 06:39 AM
Hey, GR, can't you get Hostess products in any of your local stores? They sell them everywhere..




Popular flavors are sold in grocery & convienient stores for over $1. But I don't mind traveling that far just to get Hostess products for 75 cents. The Donut Stix, Strawberry & Blueberry Fruit Pies are thrift shop exclusives.

This also marks my 1,200th post.

BubblyShell22
01-12-2012, 08:18 AM
Ah, I see. I didn't know that.

Leonardo Mystic
01-13-2012, 12:08 AM
Popular flavors are sold in grocery & convienient stores for over $1. But I don't mind traveling that far just to get Hostess products for 75 cents. The Donut Stix, Strawberry & Blueberry Fruit Pies are thrift shop exclusives.

This also marks my 1,200th post.


However, you actually save no money by traveling further out of way. You spend it all instead in gas.

Guitar_Raph
01-13-2012, 04:48 PM
you think with news like this people would be thinner, but no, still fatasses EVERYWHERE

We all can't have Gilligan or Twiggy shaped bodies. What would football linebackers look like if they were thin?
However, you actually save no money by traveling further out of way. You spend it all instead in gas.

Sorry, I leave the driving to public transportation (DART in Dallas). It's only a $4 Day pass to get there.

Redeemer
01-13-2012, 04:59 PM
I doubt if Hostess will be closing up for good. I am betting they will be around for years to come. Jst with a new company in control

At least I hope. I might travel to the local hostess store jst to pick up some cupcakes or zingers

KROW
01-15-2012, 04:53 AM
you think with news like this people would be thinner, but no, still fatasses EVERYWHERE

Probably because Little Debbie is still out there, fornicating with the Burger King and Jack in the Box over at McDonald's and White Castle.

Jester
01-15-2012, 04:55 AM
you think with news like this people would be thinner, but no, still fatasses EVERYWHERE
Yep...Hostess the only company that produces food that makes people fat. Heck, eating too much of any food can make you fat.

ryukenden
01-18-2012, 10:50 PM
No more Twinkies? Bummer. :P

TonySiegel
01-22-2012, 08:26 PM
*pours out chocolate nesquik for yodels*

RAM BAM
02-12-2012, 04:03 PM
What are we going to do for food after Armageddon? :-?

Guitar_Raph
11-15-2012, 08:44 PM
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/14/Unions-May-Kill-Off-The-Twinkie
Here's an article about Hostess. Let's hope that there's not gonna be a triple funeral for Captain Cupcake, Fruit Pie the Magician & Twinkie the Kid.

GK Punk
11-16-2012, 06:54 AM
I love their orange cupcakes. I rarely eat junkf ood anymore but now I may have to go buy a couple orange cupcakes just in case I never get them again haha.

BubblyShell22
11-16-2012, 08:43 AM
Yep, heard about this. So sad. Hostess was a good company. Loved the Zingers and the chocolate cupcakes.

愛
11-16-2012, 11:06 AM
No Zombieland reference from anyone? Come on, guys.

Guitar_Raph
11-16-2012, 02:12 PM
It's official. Sad day for everyone.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/money/Hostess-Brands-closing-for-good/-/1735962/17438644/-/hv05a5z/-/index.html

TheCanadiandrome
11-16-2012, 03:49 PM
Dang now what do I take for desert?

The Stryker
11-16-2012, 04:12 PM
Not to stop all the hi-larious 'no more twinkies' jokes but Hostess is selling off everything. Twinkies will still be sold, they'll just be by Little Debbie or some crap.

TheCanadiandrome
11-16-2012, 04:14 PM
I could see Little Debbie or another company scoopin in

Storm Eagle
11-16-2012, 04:21 PM
I think I'm going to go to the store at the gas station by my building and pick up some Twinkies.

By the way, Twinkies were buried inside of the Nickelodeon time capsule back in 1992, on April 30th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmfQ8pB0Bs

Guitar_Raph
11-16-2012, 04:27 PM
PASTOR: We are here @ Advertising Mascot Cemetery to remember three dedicated characters who glorified junk food & spread diabetes.

Captain Cupcake was found in the choppy sea, eaten by sharks when the weather started getting rough, his tiny ship was tossed.

Twinkie the Kid was corralled by a bull who sucked up the creamy middle.

Fruit Pie, the Magician, was gobbled up by a lion when he tried to pull a rabbit out of his hat. When we interviewed the assistant, she quoted, "And now, here's something we hope you'll really like."

Now, in honor of the dead.

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Joey Lawrence
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I wouldn't forget our green heroes!

TheCanadiandrome
11-16-2012, 04:34 PM
PASTOR: We are here @ Advertising Mascot Cemetery to remember three dedicated characters who glorified junk food & spread diabetes.

Captain Cupcake was found in the choppy sea, eaten by sharks when the weather started getting rough, his tiny ship was tossed.

Twinkie the Kid was corralled by a bull who sucked up the creamy middle.

Fruit Pie, the Magician, was gobbled up by a lion when he tried to pull a rabbit out of his hat. When we interviewed the assistant, she quoted, "And now, here's something we hope you'll really like."

Now, in honor of the dead.

rrTSd2YUYzA
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MEKGx9RgwAY
Joey Lawrence
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I wouldn't forget our green heroes!




That's cool

I think I'm going to go to the store at the gas station by my building and pick up some Twinkies.

By the way, Twinkies were buried inside of the Nickelodeon time capsule back in 1992, on April 30th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmfQ8pB0Bs

That's cool. They might need to do anther one

Jester
11-16-2012, 05:35 PM
I'd better stock up on Twinkies, or I'll never be able to have this delicious treat again!

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*Adam "oldman" Winters beat me to the reference on FaceBook...but not here, dang it!

LeoNerdo
11-16-2012, 05:46 PM
I already think Wal-mart makes better twinkies than Hostess... As long as SOMEBODY keeps making cream-filled sponge cakes I'm good. I don't want to turn into that guy from Zombieland.

TheCanadiandrome
11-16-2012, 11:24 PM
Lol there's Ai's zombieland reference

mysterycolor
11-20-2012, 06:54 PM
my only concern is what will the Ghostbusters use to measure the size of their containment unit... "that's one big twinkie!"

BubblyShell22
11-21-2012, 09:18 AM
Yeah, Wal-Mart has the generic brand of Twinkies.

And as for Little Debbie, my aunt said she wants them to make something similar to Suzy Q's since she's always liked them and since she works for Little Debbie. We said she should appeal to her boss. Maybe something will come of it.

Katie
11-21-2012, 06:17 PM
I already think Wal-mart makes better twinkies than Hostess... As long as SOMEBODY keeps making cream-filled sponge cakes I'm good. I don't want to turn into that guy from Zombieland.

Most generic brand things like the Wal-Mart Twinkies are made by the companies that make the name brand.....so Wal-Mart Twinkies may be extinct too.

Too bad no one would give. Sh!tty management and unionized unskilled labor that made more than I do in my salaried office job and wanted more. Now they got no jobs.