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Old 11-16-2012, 10:48 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Twinkies are dead!

Hostess is going out of business!
Twinkies are to be no more
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Old 11-16-2012, 10:52 AM   #2 (permalink)
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You can still get them in Canada: the licence is owned separately up here and production will continue - as will the production of Ding Dongs and Wonderbread.
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Old 11-16-2012, 10:54 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Good thing they have a shelf life of 30 years, stock up while you can!
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Old 11-16-2012, 10:57 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Don't worry. The Twinkie brand is being sold off and will be produced by someone else. Twinkies will never die! We just will have a severe Twinkie shortage until the deal gets done and the new owner can ramp up production. We just went from a 1.37 million Twinkie a day production rate to 0 overnight. Expect an extreme spike in Twinkie prices and short availability almost immediately. I hate to advocate hoarding, but if you stock up now they may last through the production stoppage. It may be 6 months to a year before we get fresh Twinkies again


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Expect an extreme spike in Twinkie prices and short availability almost immediately. I hate to advocate hoarding, but if you stock up now they may last through the production stoppage.
It's no coincidence that Twinkies look like gold bars.
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I can see it now; smuggling Twinkies in from Canada. I wonder if they'll have Twinkie sniffing dogs on the border?
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that's why Canada is building the new bridge to Detroit, because of all the Twinckie trade we're expecting.

BTW jstarktt what tune do you have in your RS?
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It may be 6 months to a year before we get fresh Twinkies again
Is there such a thing?
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