This just in:
Alas I knew him well !
He will be missed along with his Ding Dong brother.
Ha! Will miss his great influence...
hahahaha "....along with his Ding Dong brother."
Hohohoho, Now that's funny Hohohohohooo.
@ Mike
GUFFAW!
What a sweetie......
Here a Twinkie means a young blonde.
I guess this puts an end to lawyers using the Twinkie defense!
Great businesses come and go for it is the nature of business to grow and when they can no longer grow and need to be ‘managed’ folks forget where they got their jobs in the first place. Not political please just a shame. Is the way of life I guess.
Say farewell to these other brands which are part of the family, more obits to probably follow…
• Hostess with its’ Ding-dongs , Twinkies, and Donettes and cupcakes
• Wonder bread – the best darned PBJ bread ever!
• Bread du Jour
• Butternut bread
• Toscana sourdough and Colombo sourdough
• Home Pride bread
• Standish farms
• Nature’s Pride all natural bread
• Dolly Madison snacks with the donut Gems, Zingers
• Merita Bread
• Drake’s with its’ Ring-ding’s, Yodels, Funny Bone and Devil Dogs
• Beefsteak Bread
The brightest moment of the whole travesty of the whole darned bad situation in Governor Chris Christie of NJ who reportedly goes about 350 and who when asked at a news conference what he thought of the death of the Twinkie…replied, not even going to touch that one!
Oh well, will help with future urban archeology, as I'm sure some T's somewhere might just have a snack wrapper tucked some place.
Ralph, here twinkies are often guys from San Francisco. We get very few of them. Probably the weather.
He did say young blondes..hahaha
Thanks Danial. It's 1:45in the morning and my insomnia's kicked in. I was starting to feel a little uptight until I read your post. Now that's funny that right there.
hahaha...I'm up late too. Flippin' discs for kids out there in radio land.
Time for another tall cold, adult beverage!
You're flippin' discs and hittin' the sauce at this time of the AM. Hey, put on a little Lawrence Welk for me. That'll git ya some calls. I would like to make a request for Lawrence's rendition of Crazy Train. Anda one anda two.
i'll play anything!
But Larry Welk.
Playing a bit of Doors right now..
www.offbeatradio.listen2myradio.com
Quite the mix...broadcast over the local fm freq 107.7 while playing over the air.
George Thorogood coming up next - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.
hahahha
I'm into George Thoroughgood (sp). What about a little Stevie Ray.
Oh hell yeah! Coming up. hahahaha
dang,what a shame.I allways went by the day old bread store and got boxes of those Twinkies and kept them in the shop for snacks.
So much for this healthy liveing lifestyle.It is putting people out of work!
Yeh, Mack, putting some people out of work, and more jobs for others. Mebbe less will be spent on cholesterol and diabetes drugs, and more on shoes, as people feel more like hiking. Gotta' go hike now...
If you want to get a real laugh just check out ebay for Twinkies>
The company is in bankruptcy and the workers are on strike. I may be wrong but I think the teamster accepted the offer but the bakers did not.
As reported on the news this am they may have a buyer or are looking for one.
Hmmm. Number of sweet snacks is getting smaller but brands, kinds, flavors of Gin has increased several fold. Just happened to be a co-featured subjects on TV news show this AM.
And the latest is Grupo Bimbo in Mexico (who already makes baked goods of all kinds) will probably buy them.
First time I went to Mexico I almost fell over laughing when I saw "Bimbo Bread" on the shelf - I had to bring a loaf home, and found it was not unlike Wonder Bread - Light, fluffy, full of air.
(Kinda strangely dovetails into what Ralph said above!)
Since Bimbo is now pretty widespread in California, (The bread, not the airhead, silly!!) they would have a built in market, and will probably benefit from the whole media brouhaahaa...
Well ...
There goes the Rolling Stones ....
Well kept secret - twinkies have kept Keith Richards alive to date
He has (had) no ' expiration date ' ...
Jim
I wouldn't eat any food product from Mexico or China. Mexico has no FDA or inspection process. They also have no employee health or sanitation requirements. You don't EVEN want to know what goes on in the fields and processing centers.
I have always had a severe weakness for chocolate. I haven't bought or eaten even a pound of Hershey chocolate since they closed all the plants in the West several years ago and moved production to Mexico. I used to average eating a pound or two of Hershey per week. It took that move to make me cut down on chocolate.
I visited the plant in Oakdale Califunny a couple times. It was nice to be able to see how clean a manufacturing facility could be. The company may still hold a high standard. But if I can't see it, how would I know?
About poor Twinkie? I was never a big fan of Twinkies. They weren't chocolate.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
Yeah but Ken, have you ever noticed how tough those folks from Mexico are? It's because of no FDA. They've become immune to dangerous food. Wayne, I don't think I can ever stop eating chocolate. I don't care where it comes from. Another thing I'd have problems giving up is Nut Goodies and I've been told they don't have those in Arizona. It would keep me from going there if I couldn't bring them from here. I've also been told they don't have Grain Belt beer. Those folks gotta get that Governor lady straightened out.
I am sitting here, after having eaten a half a medium bag of M&Ms.
After this thread, earlier today, I got curious. When I went to the store a little while ago, I spent some time reading the labels on about a dozen candy bags. This was several different brands and varieties. Not one of the ones I looked at listed the country of origin for the product. I thought almost everything was supposed to list the country of origin. Even the fruits and vegetables in the store have signs or stickers that say where they are from.
Was I wrong about that?
By the by, does anyone besides me remember the song "I'm Just a Junk Food Junkie"?
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
If we knew where some of the stuff came from that we eat,we would not eat it.
I mean really,Remember that ham comes from each side of a hogs backside.
And a egg comes from a chickens backside last I read.
But now our candy comes from Mexico from a company named Bimbo?
And our medicine is made in China.
That is even scarier to me.
Big money is fighting long and hard to prevent labeling of COO, Country of Origin. They just spent $millions to defeat GMO, Genetically Modified, labeling in Calif.
My idea is 100% inspection of imports at our ports - paid by the importers. That would improve our safety, and help reduce job killing imports, while employing thousands of people to handle and inspect.
If you think it's bad in the grocery store, what do you think you're getting in restaurants? Mississippi inspects imported seafood, and rejects over half of it. We won't buy seafood in the grocery unless we see a non-Asian COO.
rdr
Wayne - Not sure I should tell you this, however, way back in the late '60's - early '70's, they actually DID make chocolate twinkies. I not only know that, but can never forget, because my wife STILL to this day, complains that they only made chocolate twinkies for a year or two until they were discontinued. She claims that if they'd continued the chocolate twinkies, they'd still be in business!
Harold S, I did know that! About thirty years ago, I made a comment about it to someone and they said I was crazy. Well, they may still be right. It didn't bother me too much that they disappeared, being a natural cheapskate, I preferred the "Suzy Qs" by Hostess anyway. More good bad stuff for the buck. Thank you for reaffirming what little remains of my dwindling sanity.
(As I type this, I am eating a "3 Musketeers". Can you believe I manage to keep my weight under 200 pounds?)
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2