A Dark week for Comics

[q99]

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[whoha]

Some company will probably buy up the recipes and brands. Hostess will live on, mot likely.

[q99]

We can hope!

[darkknightjrk]

Pabst Brewing Co.'s already making a bid for them, as a matter of fact.

[sir_razorback]

Beer-flavored Ding-Dongs... that's going to be wrong.

[ardat_lili]

To be fair, PBR is hardly beer-flavored, itself.

[darkblade]

Control over Blue Ribbon and Twinkees. With that they will control two key staples of an "ironic" hipster diet.

[aulayan]

Hostess isn't gone yet! A Judge has forced the two sides into mediation in an attempt to save the company.

[q99]

And while this continues, criminals go un-fruit-pied!

[sherkahn]

The horror.... the horror... the horror.....

[icon_uk]

Given the hyper-processed nature of the... sorry, I can't even bring myself to refer to them as "foodstuffs" with a straight face (how about "not actively toxic materials"?) I doubt they can ever actually "die" in any traditional sense.

[bewareofgeek]

Shelf life of 25 years.

[icon_uk]

As someone wiser than I once said "For a food, that's not a shelf life, that's a half life"

[q99]

There's naturally occurring foods that leave it in the dust.

(For example, Honey doesn't go bad. Ever.)

[icon_uk]

Honey needs to be stored properly for that to be the case, though if it IS kept intact then yes that's true. It's ability to do that might be seen as the result of efficient evolution.

Stuff that is manually created by a profit-seeking corporate entity shouldn't get the same pass IMHO.

[q99]

Eh, preservatives aren't necessarily bad.


Also, Twinkies have a real shelf life of 25 days, not years, anyway.

[bewareofgeek]

Ooops.

I got the 25 right, anyway...

[q99]

It was an urban legend that went around ^^

Also, 25 days is fairly long for a pastry, but is mostly due to the lack of dairy.

[bewareofgeek]

No, I'm just senile. I read the same stuff you did, and misremembered.

[ardat_lili]

Bankruptcy is a classic method of avoiding compacts and agreements with employees. Corporations do it all the time. They just cranked up the salaries of everyone on top, said they were running out of money, blamed it on unions asking them to pay decent human wages to their workers, and now they can skip out, and either sell the company for even more money, move manufacturing overseas, whatever. Twinkies will live on. It's the people who actually make them who'll be losing their jobs.

[freezer]

Sara Lee and Dean Metropoulos & Co.(owners of Pabst Blue Ribbon and Chef Boyardee) are both reported to be interested in aquiring Hostess. So Twinkies may not be dead yet.

Of course, being a Little Debbie man, the potential loss of Wonder Bread is of far greater import to me.

[karunya]

I was mildly amused to discover, while grocery shopping today, that Mrs. Freshley's (a dollar-store brand that has the dubious distinction of being even cheaper and more plastic-y than Little Debbie) has already put together and distributed cardboard displays for their "Dreamies" rip-off product. The Mexican bakery conglomerate Bimbo also has Twinkie knock-offs in cool flavors like strawberry and coconut. I actually recommend the strawberry ones.

Basically, any company that can make sponge cake and white filling can sell a Twinkie-like product. And I hope they do, because my hubby has had a twinkie-per-day habit since growing up in the 1960s.

[timgueugen]

Meanwhile, up here in Canada Hostess fans don't have to worry. Saputo owns the Canadian rights to Hostess products, and production continues unabated.