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Twinkies Are Coming Back in the Greatest News Ever

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:27:24 +0000

The long national nightmare is over. Twinkies are coming back! The iconic cupcake will return to stores this summer after a pair of private equity companies agreed to buy Hostess. Apollo Global Management, LLC and Metropoulos & Co. will purchase the Hostess and Dolly Madison brands for $410 million. Metropoulous & Co. founder and CEO [...]

Hostess In Talks To Sell Bread Brands

Andy Capwell — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 22:22:27 +0000

According to the Wall Street Journal, Hostess brands Inc. could be announcing as early next week that Flowers Foods and Bimbo are in discussions to acquire the Hostess bread brands, which include Wonder Bread and Nature's Pride.

'SNL' – Jamie Foxx Breaks While Playing Ding Dong on 'Update'

Kyle Dowling — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:30:42 +0000

The high point of last night’s episode of ‘Saturday Night Live‘ (with guest host Jamie Foxx) was probably the Academy Award winner’s portrayal of the not-so-popuar Hostess snack, Ding Dong. During the ‘Weekend Update’ segment, ‘Dong’ expressed his dismay for the lack of love for his kind while the Twinkie reigns as king. Sadly, due [...]

3 Year Old Hostess Fan Has a Tantrum

Kyle Dowling — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:15:19 +0000

America has enjoyed a long-term relationship with Hostess for decades. Is this really the end? Watch as one young pastry lover experiences his first major heartbreak. In this video we get to see three year-old Lucas in the throes of pure grief and disbelief at what’s transpired. However, while most of the country is mourning the never-aging, never-expiring [...]

There Is a Petition for Obama to Nationalize Twinkies

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:45:38 +0000

When the US auto industry was in jeopardy four years ago President Obama stepped in with a bailout package. Now it's the American junk food industry that's in peril, with Hostess Brands closing up shop and heading for liquidation, and some want Obama to take an even more drastic step.

Daniel B. of Kansas City has started a petition for the president to "Nationalize the Twinkie industry."

Sun Capital Wants To Buy Hostess

Andy Capwell — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:13:39 +0000

The news earlier this week that Hostess Brands, Inc. was closing and all of it's 18,500 workers would be losing their jobs was certainly bad news. Many Americans rushed to buy the last of the Twinkies, Suzy Q's and Ding Dongs off of store shelves. It looked like a part of Americana was fading into our past.

Why Pay Thousands For Twinkies? Here's The Recipe.

Dan Seitz — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:23:12 +0000

In the wake of the closing of Hostess, many are worried that they won’t be able to get Twinkies, and driving the prices of the snack cakes up to absurd degrees on eBay. Good thing the recipe is easy to find, if you’re not made of money. Reddit user FinancialBabe recently posted a joke photo [...]

Hostess Brands Says It's Going Out Of Business

Andy Capwell — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:01:15 +0000

Hostess Brands says it’s going out of business, closing plants that make Twinkies and Wonder Bread and laying off all of it’s 18,500 workers. The company made the announcement early Friday morning. Workers with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union across the country have been on strike for a week. The [...]

Biddeford Hostess Plant Part of National Strike

Andy Capwell — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:42:25 +0000

Biddeford, Maine’s hostess plant is part of the nationwide strike by it’s bakers union. The strike has lead to three permanent closings of it’s bakeries. The closures in Seattle, St.Louis and Cincinnati will result in the loss of 627 jobs. Production of Hostess iconic products like Twinkies, Wonder Bread and Ding Dongs are not expected [...]