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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
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It's profoundly depressing that the Wonder Bread stores are going out of business. Where am I going to get cheap and delicious texas toast now?
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 1479
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And right when all these states just legalized marijuana, too. The timing is so terrible.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24886
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How many of you guys have heard of Drake's? They're part of Hostess too.
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Hacker
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Joined: Sep 13 2008
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Hey Syd, buy a box of twinkies so in 20 years you can eat a 20 year old twinkie and do an article on it.
If not for the entertainment do it so that pong article will go down
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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Man, I just went to three different grocery stores, and all of the hostess products were gone. I guess I wasn't the only one who wanted to send Ding Dong's out in style.
Has anybody here ever eaten a banana twinky? Those things were so delicious. Way better than the original.
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sidewaydriver
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Title: ( ͡� 
Joined: May 11 2008
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They're all gone at the grocery stores here too but I managed to stockpile at a few gas stations so you might still get lucky.
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bassguy252
Title: Professional Malcontent
Joined: May 26 2010
Location: Mount Dhoom!!!!!!!
Posts: 517
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Only in America can you legalize Marijuana and then stop making the twinkie
oh the irony
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 Let's assume it's a mixture of the two!
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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Hacker wrote: |
Hey Syd, buy a box of twinkies so in 20 years you can eat a 20 year old twinkie and do an article on it.
If not for the entertainment do it so that pong article will go down |
Despite popular myth, Twinkies actually have a rather short shelf life, about 25 days (impressive for a baked good, but not really a lifetime supply).
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
Posts: 4226
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Saturday night I sold about two dozen boxes of Twinkies for around 50 bucks each on craigslist. Maybe I should have kept them for a few more days, the price could have gone up even more.
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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@om*d wrote: |
Saturday night I sold about two dozen boxes of Twinkies for around 50 bucks each on craigslist. Maybe I should have kept them for a few more days, the price could have gone up even more. |
Haha, you've spun some dopey tales before, but this one takes the cake. Pun intended.
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Zinja
Joined: Sep 05 2012
Posts: 81
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Beach Bum
Joined: Dec 08 2010
Location: At the pants party.
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The sad thing is that someone is actually willing to pay 75+ dollars for snack cakes that really weren't very good to begin with. The last Twinkie I had tasted terrible, certainly not as good as they used to taste. Don't know if they changed the recipe or what, but in recent years they were pretty bad. Probably why they went under. Plus those red Zingers were superior in every way to begin with. Now those I'll actually miss.
It does kind of beg the question though: If they liked them so much why didn't they buy them before the company went bankrupt when 75 bucks would have probably bought you like 15-20 boxes and maybe helped keep them afloat?
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Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
Location: Grate Whyte Norf
Posts: 1179
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No one has mentioned one of the most basic facts about all of this: I think that Hostess is going under because the fact that Little Debbie has priced them right out of competition. Why pay $1.49 for a Hostess Honey Bun when you can get one for $.50? That's across the board. They are overpriced, and never adapted to market expectations.
Oh, and the CEO is a jackass.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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One of the biggest money wasters for companies like Pepsi, Nabisco, and Hostess: shelf space and vendors.
In the supermarket industry, some companies pay for shelf space. This puts their products at the end of aisles, where they are more likely to be impulse buys than if they were in the middle. It also guarantees them big displays during sales.
Then, because these companies are paying for shelf space, they employ their own vendors to visit each and every supermarket and stock the shelves, because they don't trust supermarkets to give them the shelf space they were guaranteed.
As you can imagine, this raises distribution costs astronomically. For a company like Hostess, it never made sense to do business like this.
Pepsi, too, is facing financial difficulties right now. Profits are stable, but its debt load has increased. And I mean, it's fucking ridiculous. When you see three Pepsi guys spend two hours building a football-themed display in a store, and you realize that this is being done at supermarkets everywhere, you begin to wonder why they'd waste so much labor instead of delegating it to the supermarkets.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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Syd Lexia wrote: |
Pepsi, too, is facing financial difficulties right now. Profits are stable, but its debt load has increased. And I mean, it's fucking ridiculous. When you see three Pepsi guys spend two hours building a football-themed display in a store, and you realize that this is being done at supermarkets everywhere, you begin to wonder why they'd waste so much labor instead of delegating it to the supermarkets. |
My guess is that the supermarkets won't do it either without some sort of compensation, and you have no guarantee they will do it at all, or even do it right.
Plus, while this isn't the case with cola, baked products need to be restocked constantly for freshness concerns. Having the person who delivers the stuff do the stocking gives you some extra control over things.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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I just hope that whoever buys all of these Hostess products brings back the short-lived banana twinky. It was superior to the original in every way.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I Googled "Twinkie porn" out of curiosity, because Rule 34. OH MY GOD MY EYES.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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Syd Lexia wrote: |
I Googled "Twinkie porn" out of curiosity, because Rule 34. OH MY GOD MY EYES. |
haha
well, that was dumb of you.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 1479
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Hahaha. I'm curious, but not that curious.
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Crazy_Bastard
Title: CeeBee
Joined: Feb 25 2007
Location: Tulsa
Posts: 489
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Methid Man
Title: Spawn of Billy Mays
Joined: Nov 23 2010
Location: Hackensack, NJ
Posts: 544
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::just came back from shopping bagloads of Hostess products::
Aw dangit...
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sidewaydriver
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Title: ( ͡� 
Joined: May 11 2008
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This is great news. Now I can stockpile for a couple months before they go out of business.
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Ky-Guy
Title: Obscure Nintendo Gamer
Joined: Jul 19 2006
Location: Michigan
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Well, I might buy some boxes of Twinkies, send a few to some friends and keep the rest to sell on eBay.
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iPhone games are what you play when you can't get at actual games. You know, like how sometimes alcoholics drink mouthwash. |
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Your love life will be happy and harmonious if you stick to masturbating. |
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