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Old 01-11-2012, 06:30 AM   #1
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Hostess Files for Bankruptcy


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.
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Old 01-11-2012, 12:17 PM   #2
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We don;t have Hostess here in Norway, but the commercials in old superhero comics are gems
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Old 01-11-2012, 01:35 PM   #3
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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?
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Old 01-11-2012, 01:56 PM   #4
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I don't know, but I think some where in some of the the 60's X-Men issues
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Old 01-11-2012, 04:01 PM   #5
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you think with news like this people would be thinner, but no, still fatasses EVERYWHERE
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Old 01-11-2012, 04:53 PM   #6
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Those Hostess comics are still more intelligently written than anything Marvel have produced in the last decade.
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Old 01-11-2012, 07:56 PM   #7
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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.
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Old 01-12-2012, 06:39 AM   #8
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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.

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Old 01-12-2012, 08:18 AM   #9
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Ah, I see. I didn't know that.
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Old 01-13-2012, 12:08 AM   #10
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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.
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Old 01-13-2012, 04:48 PM   #11
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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?
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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.
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Old 01-13-2012, 04:59 PM   #12
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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
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Old 01-15-2012, 04:53 AM   #13
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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.
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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.
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Old 01-18-2012, 10:50 PM   #15
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No more Twinkies? Bummer.
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Old 01-22-2012, 08:26 PM   #16
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*pours out chocolate nesquik for yodels*
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Old 02-12-2012, 04:03 PM   #17
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What are we going to do for food after Armageddon?
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Old 11-15-2012, 08:44 PM   #18
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ff-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.
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Old 11-16-2012, 06:54 AM   #19
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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.
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Old 11-16-2012, 08:43 AM   #20
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Yep, heard about this. So sad. Hostess was a good company. Loved the Zingers and the chocolate cupcakes.
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