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Twinkies are DYING for realzz !!

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#1 - 2012-11-16 02:14:16 UTC
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/twinkies-maker-hostess-vows-liquidate-company-strikes-persist/t/story?id=17725053

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Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#2 - 2012-11-16 02:26:03 UTC
I'm surprised humans are required to make those.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#3 - 2012-11-16 02:37:33 UTC
They are indeed a perversion of the very idea of food.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#4 - 2012-11-16 02:55:09 UTC
Signs of the times. And thus approaches the zombie apocalypse. Thanks unions Ugh

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stoicfaux
#5 - 2012-11-16 03:47:19 UTC
Webvan wrote:
Thanks unions Ugh

Only an amateur would blame the unions. The real culprit here is Equal Access to Education, as in Mothers (aka Women) not letting their kids eat twinkies anymore, thus reducing Twinkie's marketshare.

Once again, educating women is shown to be anti-capitalistic and thus un-American. Damn those liberal intellectual elitists!


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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#6 - 2012-11-16 04:39:39 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Webvan wrote:
Thanks unions Ugh

Only an amateur would blame the unions. The real culprit here is Equal Access to Education, as in Mothers (aka Women) not letting their kids eat twinkies anymore, thus reducing Twinkie's marketshare.

Once again, educating women is shown to be anti-capitalistic and thus un-American. Damn those liberal intellectual elitists!



Think again. It's the same thing happening at many businesses in the US, an extremely anti-business climate by this administration in favor of government jobs over private sector jobs. In the REAL world, employers sometimes decrease pay and/or benefits during hard times, it saves jobs. But unions have never understood this, demanding entitlement they think they deserve, which goes against any form of basic business accounting.

With what's coming, with what even the markets are showing as they do this slow-crash/hard-adjustment since the results of this fraudulent election, they are probably better off de-investing and taking their losses now rather than later. They can downscale, which is nothing new to business, or be forced by the unions to go out of business. Looks like the employees would rather just take unemployment benefits from the government, so much easier than working.

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Tinja Soikutsu
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-11-16 05:29:16 UTC
yes, how DARE workers get angry about pay cuts as the price of living goes up and up and up...
Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#8 - 2012-11-16 05:35:59 UTC
Tinja Soikutsu wrote:
yes, how DARE workers get angry about pay cuts as the price of living goes up and up and up...


Won't someone think of the poor shareholders?

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#9 - 2012-11-16 06:01:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Webvan
Bane Necran wrote:
Tinja Soikutsu wrote:
yes, how DARE workers get angry about pay cuts as the price of living goes up and up and up...


Won't someone think of the poor shareholders?

Well as the company fails, the government can always step in [again], buy it all up and hand it all over to the union using taxpayer money (debt for the great-great-grandchildren to pay). Then the government can mandate change, start using organic healthy ingredients, green energy, environmental friendly packaging (e.g. moss/algae formula), reducing greenhouse emissions. Then they can sell a few boxes to maybe Europe before needing another bailout. So what if it tastes like bug eaten bark, it's good "business", shows they really really care and that's what matters.

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Gibbo5771
AQUILA INC
Verge of Collapse
#10 - 2012-11-16 14:33:55 UTC
Thank god, bought one of those once. Felt like killing myself.
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2012-11-16 17:24:50 UTC
Oh man. Not just Twinkies, but Hostess Cupcakes, Donettes, Sno Balls and Ding Dongs. And the worst of all, Wonder Bread.
I guess this means the end of the eye-catching but affordable Twinkies wedding cake.
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#12 - 2012-11-16 17:29:02 UTC
Where will I get my Zingers now?

I love those spongy little bits of goodness...

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Casirio
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2012-11-16 17:44:57 UTC
Dude hostess products are complete garbage. Good riddance. and i'm not even a health nut either, but twinkies ? terrible terrible.
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#14 - 2012-11-16 18:06:31 UTC
I want my Twinkies!

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#15 - 2012-11-16 18:12:44 UTC
Casirio wrote:
Dude hostess products are complete garbage. Good riddance. and i'm not even a health nut either, but twinkies ? terrible terrible.

The more of them you eat, the longer your body will stay intact. After you're dead, that is. No embalming is needed at all for Hostess eaters.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#16 - 2012-11-16 18:54:20 UTC
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Jeri Ryan‏@JeriLRyan

Wait, what?!? No more Twinkies?!? But, but... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

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"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#17 - 2012-11-16 19:20:03 UTC
Wow. It is indeed a growing story:

http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-closing/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#18 - 2012-11-16 19:51:00 UTC
Twinkies Wedding Cakes !!

http://bridetide.blogspot.com/2010/01/twinkie-wedding-cakes.html

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#19 - 2012-11-16 20:05:05 UTC
Yeah... ding dongs, too Cry I loved those when I was a kid and still eat them once in a while. Here's the thing, I could eat one or two and feel satisfied, no need for more junk food. I wasn't a fat kid, and being decades ago there were just very few fat kids. You can say whatever you want about some silly idea that parents know better now or whatever, but kids now are FAT!! And it's not from twinkies or ding dongs, it's all this new junk that just makes you want to eat more and more, never satisfied.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2012-11-16 21:18:29 UTC
Webvan wrote:
Signs of the times. And thus approaches the zombie apocalypse. Thanks unions Ugh


It was the zombies.... they masterminded this so the survivors would starve

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