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My friend's grandmother used to live in a high rise in Bethesda and me and my friend used to go to the roof and drop twinkies straight down from there suicide style.
Then we would go down and check out the damage.
Later on a cat would come by and eat the remains.
Just to think I will no longer be able to do this now in my adult years just brings me to tears.
Damn. I guess it really is over for them. Who would have ever thought this would happen?
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So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
Confused
()
Date: November 17, 2012 02:47AM
I'm confused.
What else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore?
What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
What else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore?
What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
Gov'tWorkersRPricks
()
Date: November 17, 2012 03:07AM
Thousands of people are losing their jobs and you fucks are worried about your yodels.
What a bunch of assholes you are.
What a bunch of assholes you are.
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
Back in the day
()
Date: November 17, 2012 03:35AM
My friend's grandmother used to live in a high rise in Bethesda and me and my friend used to go to the roof and drop twinkies straight down from there suicide style.
Then we would go down and check out the damage.
Later on a cat would come by and eat the remains.
Just to think I will no longer be able to do this now in my adult years just brings me to tears.
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
SoylentGreen
()
Date: November 17, 2012 06:29AM
Gov'tWorkersRPricks Wrote:
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> Thousands of people are losing their jobs and you
> fucks are worried about your yodels.
>
> What a bunch of assholes you are.
Correction: Thousands of people have decided to force their employer out of business thereby losing their own jobs.
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> Thousands of people are losing their jobs and you
> fucks are worried about your yodels.
>
> What a bunch of assholes you are.
Correction: Thousands of people have decided to force their employer out of business thereby losing their own jobs.
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
Comfort Food
()
Date: November 17, 2012 08:07AM
RIP WonderBread.
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
AMEN
()
Date: November 17, 2012 08:15AM
SoylentGreen Wrote:
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> Gov'tWorkersRPricks Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Thousands of people are losing their jobs and
> you
> > fucks are worried about your yodels.
> >
> > What a bunch of assholes you are.
>
>
> Correction: Thousands of people have decided to
> force their employer out of business thereby
> losing their own jobs.
WORD UP!
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> Gov'tWorkersRPricks Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Thousands of people are losing their jobs and
> you
> > fucks are worried about your yodels.
> >
> > What a bunch of assholes you are.
>
>
> Correction: Thousands of people have decided to
> force their employer out of business thereby
> losing their own jobs.
WORD UP!
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
I'm with Stupid ---->
()
Date: November 17, 2012 08:15AM
At the time of Hostess's liquidation, these were its brands in the United States:
Baker's Inn
Beefsteak
Blue Ribbon
Bread du Jour
Butternut Breads
Colombo
Cotton’s
Di Carlo
Dolly Madison
Drake's
Dutch Hearth
Eddy’s
Good Hearth
Holsom
Home Pride
Hostess
J.J. Nissen
Merita
Millbrook
Mrs. Cubbison's Foods
Nature's Pride
Parisian
Standish Farms
Sweetheart
Twinkie
Toscana
Wonder Bread
Baker's Inn
Beefsteak
Blue Ribbon
Bread du Jour
Butternut Breads
Colombo
Cotton’s
Di Carlo
Dolly Madison
Drake's
Dutch Hearth
Eddy’s
Good Hearth
Holsom
Home Pride
Hostess
J.J. Nissen
Merita
Millbrook
Mrs. Cubbison's Foods
Nature's Pride
Parisian
Standish Farms
Sweetheart
Twinkie
Toscana
Wonder Bread
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
Damn
()
Date: November 17, 2012 08:25AM
Damn. I guess it really is over for them. Who would have ever thought this would happen?
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
Romulus
()
Date: November 17, 2012 08:44AM
Bimbo will more than likely buy out the best selling cakes (twinkies, hohos, etc) and continue to make them. Or Sara Lee.
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
I am not Tinklebox MC
()
Date: November 17, 2012 09:13AM
I liked the story about dropping the Twinkies off a tall building. Back in the early 70s, my friends and I would blow them up with firecrackers. That shit flew all over the place!
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
Priapus
()
Date: November 17, 2012 09:25AM
SoylentGreen Wrote:
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> Gov'tWorkersRPricks Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Thousands of people are losing their jobs and
> you
> > fucks are worried about your yodels.
> >
> > What a bunch of assholes you are.
>
>
> Correction: Thousands of people have decided to
> force their employer out of business thereby
> losing their own jobs.
Your ignorance is showing:
Daily Kos LaborRSS
Daily Kos group
Fri Nov 16, 2012 at 11:39 AM PST
'Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what’s wrong with America'
by Laura ClawsonFollow for Daily Kos Labor
2475
Hostess Twinkies
As Hostess Brands announces its liquidation, the company's management is blaming a strike by members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union—those damn workers wouldn't accept having their pay and pensions cut and their health care contributions increased just a few years after they made similar concessions in Hostess' previous, mishandled bankruptcy. "The forces most responsible" for the liquidation, CNBC's John Carney writes, "were two hedge funds that control hundreds of millions of Hostess debt and which have finally decided they won't squeeze any more filling into the Twinkie."
Only Silver Point and Monarch could have kept Hostess out of liquidation and kept the Twinkie bakery ovens firing. But they were, ultimately, unable to reach a deal with the unions that represents the workers who make and deliver products like Twinkies, Wonderbread and Ding Dongs. Without large union concessions—what some would say, total union capitulation—the hedge funds decided Hostess would have to die.
Hostess has clearly been mismanaged in recent years after having grown through the previous decades in ways that make its structure, including its labor force, especially complicated. But the end game is that private equity firms came in to do what they do: squeeze profits for their own multimillionaire investors at whatever cost to workers and to the company itself. Who cares if tens of thousands of workers are left unemployed and without the means to retire? Not Silver Point or Monarch, as long as they get their money. Who cares if Hostess exists tomorrow? Not Silver Point or Monarch, as long as they get their money.
These union members had faced a slow bleed for years. The only question for them was whether to accept an accelerated bleed and hope it would stop in a few years—but hope that in the knowledge that that was not a priority or even necessarily a desirable outcome to Hostess' private equity owners—or to fight for what they earned. We're hearing, and can expect to keep hearing, a lot about how it's so unreasonable of union members to expect to get the pay and benefits they negotiated and worked for, the pensions they've planned their retirements around. Because this is coming after a generation-long war on pensions and unions and middle-class wages. As AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement, "What’s happening with Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what’s wrong with America, as Bain-style Wall Street vultures make themselves rich by making America poor."
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> Gov'tWorkersRPricks Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Thousands of people are losing their jobs and
> you
> > fucks are worried about your yodels.
> >
> > What a bunch of assholes you are.
>
>
> Correction: Thousands of people have decided to
> force their employer out of business thereby
> losing their own jobs.
Your ignorance is showing:
Daily Kos LaborRSS
Daily Kos group
Fri Nov 16, 2012 at 11:39 AM PST
'Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what’s wrong with America'
by Laura ClawsonFollow for Daily Kos Labor
2475
Hostess Twinkies
As Hostess Brands announces its liquidation, the company's management is blaming a strike by members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union—those damn workers wouldn't accept having their pay and pensions cut and their health care contributions increased just a few years after they made similar concessions in Hostess' previous, mishandled bankruptcy. "The forces most responsible" for the liquidation, CNBC's John Carney writes, "were two hedge funds that control hundreds of millions of Hostess debt and which have finally decided they won't squeeze any more filling into the Twinkie."
Only Silver Point and Monarch could have kept Hostess out of liquidation and kept the Twinkie bakery ovens firing. But they were, ultimately, unable to reach a deal with the unions that represents the workers who make and deliver products like Twinkies, Wonderbread and Ding Dongs. Without large union concessions—what some would say, total union capitulation—the hedge funds decided Hostess would have to die.
Hostess has clearly been mismanaged in recent years after having grown through the previous decades in ways that make its structure, including its labor force, especially complicated. But the end game is that private equity firms came in to do what they do: squeeze profits for their own multimillionaire investors at whatever cost to workers and to the company itself. Who cares if tens of thousands of workers are left unemployed and without the means to retire? Not Silver Point or Monarch, as long as they get their money. Who cares if Hostess exists tomorrow? Not Silver Point or Monarch, as long as they get their money.
These union members had faced a slow bleed for years. The only question for them was whether to accept an accelerated bleed and hope it would stop in a few years—but hope that in the knowledge that that was not a priority or even necessarily a desirable outcome to Hostess' private equity owners—or to fight for what they earned. We're hearing, and can expect to keep hearing, a lot about how it's so unreasonable of union members to expect to get the pay and benefits they negotiated and worked for, the pensions they've planned their retirements around. Because this is coming after a generation-long war on pensions and unions and middle-class wages. As AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement, "What’s happening with Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what’s wrong with America, as Bain-style Wall Street vultures make themselves rich by making America poor."
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
Somewhere
()
Date: November 17, 2012 09:35AM
Somewhere out there there is a fat/obese/overweight former classmate of mine named Theo.
He was huge back then so I am sure he is huge now.
Where ever he is he must be BITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTER.
He was huge back then so I am sure he is huge now.
Where ever he is he must be BITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTER.
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
More concise
()
Date: November 17, 2012 10:14AM
Priapus Wrote:
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> Trumka said in a statement, "What’s happening
> with Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what’s
> wrong with America, as Bain-style Wall Street
> vultures make themselves rich by making America
> poor."
Instead of describing this as a showdown between private-equity finance and labor unions (which it is, but that has become politicized and many people have been bombarded with a PR campaign to go against their own interests) -- a better comparison is between a publicly traded company run by professional managers, and a privately owned company run by actual stakeholders.
If this were a privately owned company managed by people who rely on the company's ongoing profitability for their own wealth, those people would do more to keep the company whole and operating as an ongoing concern.
Once a company has been sold to the public, the public has different interests.
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> Trumka said in a statement, "What’s happening
> with Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what’s
> wrong with America, as Bain-style Wall Street
> vultures make themselves rich by making America
> poor."
Instead of describing this as a showdown between private-equity finance and labor unions (which it is, but that has become politicized and many people have been bombarded with a PR campaign to go against their own interests) -- a better comparison is between a publicly traded company run by professional managers, and a privately owned company run by actual stakeholders.
If this were a privately owned company managed by people who rely on the company's ongoing profitability for their own wealth, those people would do more to keep the company whole and operating as an ongoing concern.
Once a company has been sold to the public, the public has different interests.
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
GovtWorkersRPricks
()
Date: November 17, 2012 11:18AM
SoylentGreen Wrote:
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> Gov'tWorkersRPricks Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Thousands of people are losing their jobs and
> you
> > fucks are worried about your yodels.
> >
> > What a bunch of assholes you are.
>
>
> Correction: Thousands of people have decided to
> force their employer out of business thereby
> losing their own jobs.
I stand corrected.
You make an excellect point.
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> Gov'tWorkersRPricks Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Thousands of people are losing their jobs and
> you
> > fucks are worried about your yodels.
> >
> > What a bunch of assholes you are.
>
>
> Correction: Thousands of people have decided to
> force their employer out of business thereby
> losing their own jobs.
I stand corrected.
You make an excellect point.
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
Truth4All
()
Date: November 25, 2012 12:30PM
This country and the demise of American institutions like Hostess is the direct result of out current administration. The damage done by Obama in the last 4 years far exceeds what any president has accomplished. Learn to know what Socialism really is and communism. If you REALLY know what Obama stands for, and still supported him for President...then you're a traitor. I can't say it any more clearly.
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
forReals
()
Date: November 25, 2012 12:31PM
Re: So what else besides twinkies are not going to be made anymore? What other hostess treats will no longer be available?
Posted by:
Chapter 11 in 2004
()
Date: November 25, 2012 12:54PM
Truth4All Wrote:
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> This country and the demise of American
> institutions like Hostess is the direct result of
> out current administration. The damage done by
> Obama in the last 4 years far exceeds what any
> president has accomplished. Learn to know what
> Socialism really is and communism. If you REALLY
> know what Obama stands for, and still supported
> him for President...then you're a traitor. I can't
> say it any more clearly.
yep, Hostess was going gangbusters before Obama took office. They only used Chapter 11 reorg in 2004 because they knew Obama was going to come along and fuck it all up for them.
-------------------------------------------------------
> This country and the demise of American
> institutions like Hostess is the direct result of
> out current administration. The damage done by
> Obama in the last 4 years far exceeds what any
> president has accomplished. Learn to know what
> Socialism really is and communism. If you REALLY
> know what Obama stands for, and still supported
> him for President...then you're a traitor. I can't
> say it any more clearly.
yep, Hostess was going gangbusters before Obama took office. They only used Chapter 11 reorg in 2004 because they knew Obama was going to come along and fuck it all up for them.