TS: Tastykake vs. Hostess, Drake's, Little Debbie's, etc.

Available at non-snooty supermarkets and finer gas stations throughout SoCal.

They constantly cycle depending on market cost - if you can add sugar to it and whip it into a creamy filling, and it's the cheapest thing available in a given region on a given day, that's what'll be in there. Changes way too often to reprint the packaging.

http://www.twinkiesproject.com/

I'm always shocked at how CHEAP little debbie it... cheaper than a candy-bar, though it's a cake. That said, I won't eat them.

Out west we have Home Run Pies... 25 cents for 260 calories! Can't go wrong with that. They have a butt-skotch too I think.

A division of Interstate Bakeries/Interstate Brands, along with Hostess and Drake's.

Today I was really hoping for some shitty 35c brownies, but had to settle for a two-pack of Suzy Q's.

at a hotel in Fayetteville AR a few weeks back the hotel room listed, on its in-room info sheet, Little Debbie cakes for breakfast! I was pumped! Swiss Cake Rolls (or Swiss Rolls as they are now sadly known) for breakfast! Nutty Bars! and then crushed when it turned out they just meant Wal-Mart brand honey buns. I guess Little Debbie is like Xerox or Coke, a linguistic stand-in for all things snack cake.

Just bought a box of Star Crunch and ate one today for the first time since I was in high school. Not as good as I remembered them, sadly.

R.I.P. Twinkie The Kid

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/hostess-maker-twinkies-ding-dongs-says-closing-business-1C7112898

Fucking companies having hissyfits these days!

Collective lardening agreement, et al

"by the way, santa claus also isn't real, and now hold still while this nfl kicker takes a shot at your balls."

The Teamsters union, which represents 7,500 Hostess workers, has been sharply critical of the smaller Bakers' decision to strike, saying it was forcing the company to the cusp of liquidation. The Teamsters said Thursday that the Bakers' union should hold a secret ballot vote on the company's offer, rather than the voice votes that were held in union halls around the country that authorized the decision to strike.

"It is difficult for Teamster members to believe that is what the [Bakers union] Hostess members ultimately wanted to accomplish when they went out on strike," said the Teamsters' statement.

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

So are the bakers really that shitty of a union, or are the teamsters kiss-ass sellouts?

#1

I'm thinking more #2. Unions generally don't willingly strike without pay for weeks/months with the intention of sabotaging their own jobs.

sometimes they do if they are filled w/ dumb people

Isn't it kind of aureate to call Hostess workers "bakers"?

chemical workers

aureate is itself an aureate word

Tbf, how often do companies liquidate rather than concede anything to unions? Baby out with the bathwater.

Anyway, tempted to hit the Hostess outlet and buy a million Twinkies.

the baby is dead

didn't get enough vitamins

Too many Twinkies.

chemical workers

yellowcake, for sure

Also, does pretty much every city everywhere in the country have a Hostess outlet?

Executives were running Hostess into the ground. Since 2002, there were no fewer than six CEOs (one of whom got a 300% raise, and all of whom got golden parachutes), the workers had been taking concessions for years, each plant was overproducing by $30k/week, the company illegally froze pensions for all of 2012, and it's being run by a private equity firm plus two hedge funds. Nothing suggested that accepting the latest round of concessions would have saved their jobs anyway.

All of whom got golden, flaky, moist parachutes.

that the company was poorly managed doesn't change (and helps explain) the fact that the strike was going to put an end to things. maybe they'd only have jobs for a year - still a step up from where they're gonna be now.

I dunno, going down fighting vs. giving up without a fight...I'd say the former is generally preferable, and usually more inspiring to unions/workers in similar situations.

Yeah, kinda the whole idea of a union is that it's about the larger picture, and giving in would have been a lousy precedent for union members in healthier companies.

no I would say 'we went on strike then everyone lost their jobs and the company went out of business' is not going to be inspiring to anyone, ever

No doubt that the larger story here is years of mismanagement of Hostess. None of that makes a futile strike less futile.

NO one will stand for twinkies going away - some one wil buy the ocmpany and make thos eshits

from some guy on a friend's facebook:

they'll be back......bought and moved to a non union state......where companies make money and people get paid fairly for their lack of skills

Was this the fault of the deep-fried twinkie concessions at state fairs? Was there so much discussion along the lines of "well, here you have a twinkie, which was already bad for you anyway, and then you make it worse" that people began to seriously shy away from twinkies?

^needs to work for CNN

anyways iatee just think of the prospect of the twinkie-free generations and the unneeded burden the America's incipient universal health care system has been freed from

ya that's true most of this stuff should be illegal anyway

As long as we don't end up with twink-free generations.

seriously management was on some bain capital shit and their 'we'll shut it down' stuff is equiv to the 'if we get healthcare then i have to lay it off' bs blackmail.

also if you are in a union and lose your job you are often still in the union. it helps to know something about unions and not just be an ass on the internet.

You'll all be importing deep fried Mars Bars from Scotland.

midwestern state fairs have had deep fried Mars Bars for over 20 year now

so glad s clover arrived

yes, clearly, whether or not these people are throwing away their union cards today or in 6 months is the real issue here

well just try not to say obviously wrong things, please. being a dick you can't help.

haha I think the last time we argued you were making fun of a girl who died in a car accident

guys! guys! don't argue about who is the bigger dick. it just cheapens the eventual c&p of this exchange to the excelsior thread

lol

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/262064_4891016030131_417071742_n.jpg

America has no ding dong anymore

http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Twinkie-Seekers-Raid-Grocery-Shelves-as-Hostess-4044369.php

end times, people.

Who's to say the union wasn't holding out for the weed initiatives out west to kick in & save the company from its feeble mismanagement?

going like hotcakes

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-BOX-HOSTESS-TWINKIES-10-PACK-GOLDEN-SPONGE-CAKE-WITH-CREAMEY-FILLING-NIB-/271105052127?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f1f1ecddf

10-pack going for more than a ray wylie hubbard and the cowboy twinkies album at the moment

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ray-Wylie-Hubbard-the-Cowboy-Twinkies-LP-with-original-record-sleeve-RAY-WYLI-/110976190564?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item19d6b24864

The bankruptcy court will almost certainly try to sell off the various Hostess brand names as assets, so if any company (or person) wants to produce Twinkies in the future, they probably could.

drake's has kept quality control way higher over the years. very uniform and dependable product. hostess products have gotten worse. tastykake still one of the gold standards but they are smaller and can keep an eye on things better. i'm moving all of my money into worcester, ma-based table talk. support the little guy.

Clearly what did Hostess in was all those outlets.

Also, is no one mourning Wonder Bread ? Not me, but that seems as much a cultural touchstone as Twinkies.

Meanwhile:

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRYIVnvituBdeltWJQ8RvhY54U2H42p-Ct4jk2NbbEYQkCGN_1-

http://latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/twinkie3-cp.jpg?w=400&h=224&crop=1

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md68xwzZQI1rktm91o1_500.jpg

shit i would have bought that ray wiley hubbard record. never seen that one.

wait, didn't drakes get bought by hostess?

never forget: http://www.drakesdevildogs.com/images/devil_dogs_sm.jpg

might have to close up the shop and hit some local supermarket!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-boxes-of-Hostess-Twinkies-30-cakes-total-PLUS-FREE-SHIPPING-NEXT-DAY-/261128894028?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccc7eb64c

rest in peace, my sad gross not-so-fruity friend. this could be our last breakfast together.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/535622_10151915646317137_814961408_n.jpg

I feel like these dudes should buy the rights to the twinkie name http://www.bimbobakeriesusa.com/our_brands/

"One thing that has become synonymous with Freihofer's is its support of women's distance running through its generous sponsorship of the Freihofer's Run for Women since 1979."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWYJWgbsd38

gas face for jacobin here: http://jacobinmag.com/2012/11/hostess-and-the-limits-of-the-private-welfare-state/

http://www.cnbc.com/id/49889974

Twinkies won't die that easily after all.

Hostess Brands and its second largest union will go into mediation to try and resolve their differences, meaning the Irving, Texas-based company won't go out of business just yet. The news came Monday after Hostess moved to liquidate and sell off its assets in bankruptcy court citing a crippling strike last week.

The bankruptcy judge hearing the case says that the parties haven't gone through the critical step of mediation and asked the lawyer for the bakery's union to ask his client, who wasn't present, if he would agree to participate.

The case is being heard by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York in White Plains, N.Y.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Hostess-Twinkies-Twinkie-Snack-Cake-1-BOX-Cakes-Sponge-Cream-Creme-Filling-/310516098219?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item484c33a4ab

http://cloudfront.bostinno.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/american-flag.jpg

btw:
http://forecats.tumblr.com/post/36739075878/a-bakers-wife-is-now-making-twinkies-definitely

heart baker's wife

god bless them

realizing that I can live without hostess/wonder bread but I miss drake's - ring dings, yodels, and the loss of devil dogs will be particularly stinging since there was a jersey shore ice cream shop that made an incredibly delicious devil dog ice cream

on the other hand, maybe bimbo bakeries will buy the brands and then we can hear about how unions forced twinkies to go from hostess to bimbo

Wait, I didn't realize the Hostess bust-up was taking Drake's with it--several weeks ago I had a craving for the coffee cakes, and thus I have a box (opened) of them in my fridge. There's something about that streusel topping....

I still see some Drake's in the stores (mostly coffee cakes!!) but no Hostess.

you won't for long

http://www.drakescake.com

I'm hypoglycemic, which means I crave sweets often. I get sick of most of them, only Hostess doesn't make me sick. Even Grandma's Cookies are making me nauseous. Only thing is mostly I crave that chocolate pie thing that has that fatty goo crap in it. Which no one over the age of twelve should be allowed to eat.

http://wonkette.com/492775/hostess-executives-teach-us-all-a-little-lesson-about-personal-responsibility
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Hostess’ CEO, Gregory Rayburn, essentially admitted that his company stole employee pension money and put it toward CEO and senior executive pay (aka “operations”). While this isn’t technically illegal, it’s another sleazy theft by Hostess executives – who’ve paid themselves handsomely while running their company into the ground. Just last month, a judge agreed to let Hostess executives suck another $1.8 million out of the bankrupt company to pay bonuses to CEOs.

I feel like these dudes should buy the rights to the twinkie name http://www.bimbobakeriesusa.com/our_brands/

Looks like you may be getting your wish.