Hostess goes bankrupt. RIP Twinkies.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-closing/

A box of Twinkies is going for up to $100 on eBay right now.

What are your opinions of this screwball insanity over a damn pastry?

Will someone else get the recipes?

Originally posted by Impediment
Will someone else get the recipes?

if they aren't profitable now...

The bankruptcy was due to a worker strike, if I recall correctly.

Twinkies, and all other Hostess pastries, have sold for decades. Why wouldn't they be profitable now?

Originally posted by Impediment
The bankruptcy was due to a worker strike, if I recall correctly.

according to Fox, MSNBC focused on exorbitant bonuses executives gave themselves

at the end of the day, a company floats or sinks on their products

do you have sales data from Hostess?

No, I don't. I'll try to find some.

THEY TUK R TWINKIES!!!

seriously though, i severely doubt that hostess will not be purchased and reopened. we'll have our twinkies back, and made with pride by non-union minimum-wage earning immigrant bakers.

Hostess also filed for bankruptcy in 2004

I can't find data on their stock performance over previous years, but that suggests the brand has been struggling.

I don't like Twinkies. Good riddance.

Maybe I should buy a box though, if I can sell them for 100 bucks on Amazon. mhmm

Chocolate chip mini muffins. 🙁

Who the hell actually eats Twinkies on a regular basis anyway? I haven't seen them outside of armageddon jokes since I was a kid. They're not that special. Maybe they were super when the market wasn't saturated with sweets (pun intended). But there's hundreds of other choices now.

RIP sugary nonsense, and apparently stupid business practices. Capitalism ftw.

I don't like twinkies much.
Who made Ding-Dongs?

This doesn't really bother me much but that guy from Zombieland is gonna be upset.

Hostess was in a bad spot when the Union decided to be shits.

It wasn't quite "the straw" but it wasn't the only thing that contributed to their problems.

No more "Snack Centers" in supermarkets. No more Hostess mini-marts. I think the best thing about Hostess was those mini-marts. You just walk in and you are in Hostess heaven. 🙁

Oh boo hoo. How about paying your ****ing workers before you give yourself a 300% raise to pay for blow and hookers?

Who cares? Dolly Madison and Tastee Cakes will buy the recipes and make their own.

man, I love how determined everyone is to make this political...

It's mostly him and Mairuzu

my bad, yes, I mean a much more restricted use of "everyone", lol

Originally posted by Darth Jello
Who cares? Dolly Madison and Tastee Cakes will buy the recipes and make their own.

I hope you're right, good sir! I don't eat those snacks but once in a blue moon...but I want to eat them when that blue moon occurs, dammit!

Little Debby has always been better.

Though I can't really stomach that kind of food anymore. Combination of cloying taste and terrible nutrition.

They're going to be selling their major brands to other companies. Twinkies will be back. It's the smaller less known brands that might be gone for good.

twinkies kinda suck. there i said it.