SILLY CUSTOMER! YOU CANNOT HURT A TWINKIE!!
 

...unless Hostess goes under, which it has. :(

http://money.cnn.com/m/#!/2012/11/16...ategory=Latest News

This is it

twinkies will still be around, guys.

The Mayans were right.

I was hoping this was a thread about twinks. :/

I seriously hope some other brand buys the recipe/brand from them for all of their products. A world without mini donettes just isn't worth living in. What makes you say that they'll stick around somehow?

Crumb ones are seriously one of my all-time favorite junk foods.

all of that shit is fucking garbage unfit for human consumption

and what's up with that scroll bar? can't even read the shitty thing

i ain't ever had a twinkie no how.

Most transparent Union busting move ever. I'm sure next month we will be buying our twinkies from one of the giant multinationals from the same exact lines staffed by non-union workers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Bimbo

They have bought every other mass produced baked good chain, so I don't see why they won't just add hostess to the list of 300 brands they own.

my guess is it was posted from a mobile device

http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news...ing/index.html

no goatse

the bakers should have thought about that before they struck. when you strike, sometimes you lose.

Good thing the Union was there to protect these peoples jobs.

I think it was the NY Times who said it, sometimes there is no one to blame it's just a crappy company doomed to failure.

This is one of those always bigger fish in an even bigger pond problems.

Well the teamsters agreed to their terms but the bakers held out... idk.

i got yer cream fillin right here

*violent pelvic thrust x3

cum on my face

i get it!

is that so. this won't be the only company to crumble under the mandate of Obamacare, btw. Even the teamsters can see the math.

lol

the company was poorly run for decades. Squeezing the union out was a last ditch move. The Hostess brand put little or no effort into product innovation for the better part of the last two decades. The brand became stale and a joke. Other brands simple took their market share, and younger consumers stopped buying their products.

When the "liquidate" the company some or all of the product/brand portfolio will be sold or transferred. My guess is that another arm of the holding company that owns them will end up with some of their products, or another brand will buy it up. In some instances retailers like Walmart have even bought deceased brands.

the end result, though, is that the people who spent their lives making Hostess snacks are going to pay dearly for the bad decisions of the companies leaders. I'm betting everyone at the top gets a golden parachute.

if you were only a troll you'd be brilliant. Alas, that is not the case. For a real troll does not believe his own bullshit.

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizin...tion-on-Strike

yeah, take that vultures

watched a report on this on cbs this morning and they didn't even talk to a union official to get their side but they did get a nice shitty quote from CEO Shitbag Shitsmear blaming the strike for the closing

also to the guy bemoaning the loss of donettes uh everyone in the snack cake industry makes those

I don't understand why people can't understand CEO's earn those millions. If it weren't for them, you wouldn't have a job!!!!

we have to protect the sanctity of the job creators and relentlessly blame labor for everything because we are from a gated community and still live with our parents

Romney has an impressive business career and with the economy the way it is now it's really a no brainer he should be president.

yeah the american people really fucked up

all these minorities want something handed to them, not a racist comment just talk to some blacks and mexicans at the bus stop

The minorities took this country away that my grandparents built. They immigrated here to work hard and make a living. They just sit around, don't do anything at all, and expect the government to support them.

They're called minorities for a reason, though. We could have turned this around but people just aren't paying attention.

unlike me i went to college and now collect unemployment because i was supposed to be the one to have things handed to me

My parents paid for everything to make sure I get what I deserve.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhart...ement-failure/

I just got word that a court has ordered Hostess to reenter talks with their union.

Looks like the company won't be shut down... at least not right away

wow that was from Forbes? I appreciate that defense of labor.

i remember what the ceo said on cbs this morning "if they don't like it they can get another job."

seriously these people can't even bother to respect the labor

Nice cop-out answer, clueless CEO.

he doesn't have to worry much about finding another job of course so he's completely disconnected from blue collar reality

to him, you fuck up and you get tens of thousands of dollars when you leave and then your buddies get you on the board somewheres else

if he wants to still work because haha lets face it these guys make so much money running companies into the ground they don't ever have to work again

Just go buy more money.