[Brazelton] Ding Dongs, Twinkies, and all things Snack Cake - we salute you
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figmentPez
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There is no way that we make it to 2013 without Twinkies being made again. The name is too iconic, too much a part of Americana, for that name to go unused. Someone will buy the name and start producing the product. It won't be the first time a big name went under and sold the name off. I'm trying to remember specific cases, but the names are eluding me at the moment.
It happens with cars all the time. Thunderbird. I remember when the Latrobe Brewing company was sold, and Rolling Rock beer continued under Anheuser-Busch
All is not yet lost... (Huffington Post)
figmentPez
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So now they'll be...Bimbo Twinkies? Th-the laughter! I WON'T STOP! BAHAHAHAHAHA!
Chinese bimbos?
Whenever anyone states that anything Cadbury is superior to any other product, I have to assume that either the other produt is made up mostly of manure and transfats, or that the person in question has no taste.
Lucky for you, I've eaten a twinkie once, too. It's clearly the first option. Still, Cadbury is crappy crappy crap, too.
Whats your take on Lindt chocolate?
I'm technically supposed to dislike it, since it's Swiss. But Lindt is amongst the best of the widely available chocolates. I've tasted better in small expensive chocolatier places, but from a supermarket or for general availability coupled with taste, you can't really beat them.
For making desserts, though, you're really far better off using Belgian chocolate over Swiss chocolate. They really are different.
It will be difficult for them to sell the company off without also selling some of the retirement benefits they currently claim they can't pay.
But I'm sure they'll figure out some loophole or another...
Whoops... Apparently Hostess didn't even bother to try mediation with the bakers union; and the judge overseeing their bankruptcy proceedings has ordered them to do just that, so they can't go out of business and sell off their brands just yet. Courtesy, AP: http://www.king5.com/news/business/Judge-orders-Hostess-to-mediate-with-union-180004991.html.
No, but the unions and lawyers would make a ton of money.
The workers would still lose out, but the union is only using them as a poster child, otherwise no one cares about them any longer.
Twinkies still to be made in Canada. A Canadian company has the rights to make them still and plans to keep up production.
So I guess this means that Americans can always import them if we REALLY want them. I could see it happening... most stores import Mexican coke these days.
So I guess this means that Americans can always import them if we REALLY want them. I could see it happening... most stores import Mexican coke these days.
And I can hook you up to a supply. For a price.
We'll funnel to you cheap cigarettes, in return for a case of Ho-Ho's.
I'm sure the chemicals in them by default do something so you may be medicated already and not even know it!
Actually, I'm thinking of getting wolverines and fishers for my Hostess-running business.Oh man, a twinkie pusher who uses weasels to do the dirty work.
Just how many critters do you have now Emrys? You were crawling already when Dirona and I made a visit a while back.
12 doomweasels and 4 cats but no wolverines or fishers. I'm going to have to rent them to enforce my Hostess smuggling business.
Fresh offa Memebase.
Yeah, I was in 7-11 last night and all the Hostess style snacks are still there.
I still didn't buy any.
Hostess seeks approval to pay executives $1.8M in bonuses.
Maybe we should be rethinking some of our business practices, hmm? The current executives did a poor enough job that their company is going out of business and 18,000 jobs have been lost; but the company wants approval from the bankruptcy court judge to pay those same executives another almost $2 million so that they'll stick around while the company shuts down. Who the hell thinks this shit up?!
Arguably the executives will leave if they have no incentive to stay at a dying company. The deals that will be made to slice and dice the company can be significantly less lucrative without their contacts and wheeling and dealing.
They will be trying to sell various brands for hundreds of millions of dollars, and there are hungry predatory companies waiting to grab a deal if they can pull it off.
Without a good executive that can work out these deals, they will lose much, much more than a few million dollars, and the bankruptcy judge is not going to dismiss this request as frivolous.
They will be trying to sell various brands for hundreds of millions of dollars, and there are hungry predatory companies waiting to grab a deal if they can pull it off.
Without a good executive that can work out these deals, they will lose much, much more than a few million dollars, and the bankruptcy judge is not going to dismiss this request as frivolous.
My question? How many people could they pay out the retirement benefits for if they used that cash for that instead of paying executive bonuses... executives who have already proven themselves to be entirely useless?
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