This Hostess thing is bigger than you think...

Paranoid much?

I guess we will just have to learn to eat cockroaches.

Work on that discernment buddy.

He's clearly being sarcastic.

Anything in a wrapper, can or box will withstand nuke fallout. Alpha and beta radiation will not penetrate even the thinnest plastic wrapper. As long as it is sealed tight enough to keep the radioactive dirt and dust out, you can eat it. Gamma is nothing to worry about. That will have gone right through and not contaminated the contents as it is not a particle but a wave similar to microwaves.

Just be careful that the food inside does not touch the outside of the package when you open and dispense it.

how the hell do you expect 1 to do that?

Dang hostess total company sales over 3billion dollars in 2012

werent they made with corn that would glow and had a slelf life of 2000 years

became a food staple on planet of the apes

So I need a plastic air tight suit to wear with my tin foil hat?

Who eats that crap? Chemical pastry at it's best!

I wish I were being sarcastic... the announcement of the close was made on 11 16... 11 - 1+6=7... 1+1+7= 9... 9/11.... this is serious doom they're definitely starting to cut the food supply for the survivors...

3 billion in sales....but guess where most of that sales money goes?


Union pensions, wages and benefits.

Let it collapse.

The end of the white trash MRE :-(

One of the bakeries that has been contracted to produce Twinkies has just contacted my wife's company for distribution. This product is not going anywhere. If you choose to live in fear, so be it.

Last Edited by aznedy on 11/16/2012 09:00 PM

If the gamma from the blast doesn't kill you then yes. Keep yourself clean and covered. Change your clothes regularily, shower, keep contaminated material off your skin and out of your mouth and you'll be fine.

Everything is a conspiracy these days.

so....what's a black trash MRE?

Ha, ha! When I read this headline, I thought that you were talking about that Jill Kelley gal in Tampa!

lol I thought the same.

.....which is proof that 18,500 jobs is not the full impact of this job loss.

...distributors
...suppliers
...truck mechanics
...food carts / trucks
...luncheonettes / diners
...coffee shops / breakfast shops
...trucking industry

...etc....etc.


...and ANY other companies under contract with Hostess now will have COLLATERAL DAMAGE JOB LOSSES as well.
One is linked inextricably to the others.
For every 1 jobs lost at Hostess....expect 2-3 in collateral damage job losses.


WELL DONE UNION THUGS...WELL DONE.

There is so much more to this sad story than just this typically biased paranoia focused solely on unions and pension funding.
Although there were lots of concessions and good intentions sprouting from almost all involved in this fiasco, what remains of Hostess's assets will be scavenged mostly by secured creditors and a few CEOs. A sad scenario that has become so tragically commonplace in this ravaged free market economy.

Perhaps not as some company should purchase Hostess for pennies to the dollar however, 18,500 union workers have been defeated and headed for the unemployment line and minimal concern leads to minimum wage if lucky.

Obviously a setup by Little Debbie, who will now rule the snack cake empire.

Radioactive Twinkies...

I'm so horny...

Maybe just the job for Bain Capital..

It's big for another reason. Many US industries cannot survive on the global stage with living "middle class" wages, benefit and pensions. This is a canary in the coal mine. Bye bye middle class. We're simply dissolving.

Proof unions are more devastating than a nuclear attack

BS !! the rights of twinkies will be transfered to another big corp, its marketing... moreover...great form of divert attention from a posible ww3 , cia problems ,etc etc.

Use critical thinking for (""$)" sake!!!

the federal government is going to bail out the hostess twinki company, but they have to change the stuffing to tofu!

Ok rainman, whats with the dopey math?