{"id":31432,"date":"2012-11-20T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/more-on-the-possible-demise-of-twinkies.html"},"modified":"2012-11-20T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:32:17","slug":"more-on-the-possible-demise-of-twinkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/more-on-the-possible-demise-of-twinkies.html","title":{"rendered":"More on the (Possible) Demise of Twinkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though you notice that nobody seems to wax nostalgic over Wonder Bread. And, for that matter, it&#39;s been years since I ate (and gagged at) any of Hostess&#39; signature products &#8212; Twinkies, Ho-Hos, Cupcakes. \u00a0There are simply too many better, and better for you, products out there. And that&#39;s what people are buying.<\/p>\n<p>Which is one of the real reasons Hostess is in so much trouble. \u00a0That, and carrying gobs-full of debt from the <i>previous<\/i> bankruptcy reorganization that turned shrinking profits into net losses.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope the court-ordered mediation helps, but, honestly, without a business plan that satisfies the investors, shows the company actually getting back to profitability, <i>and<\/i> can actually provide wages that will keep workers, I don&#39;t see it happening.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/media.salon.com\/2012\/11\/twinkies_rect1-150x150.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/11\/20\/vulture_capitalism_not_unions_killed_twinkies\/'>Vulture capitalism \u2014 not unions \u2014 killed Twinkies<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHedge funds took profits and piled on millions in debt at Hostess. They created this bankruptcy, not unions\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/PBU6ix8akmu' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though you notice that nobody seems to wax nostalgic over Wonder Bread. And, for that matter, it&#39;s been years since I ate (and gagged at) any of Hostess&#39; signature products &#8212; Twinkies, Ho-Hos, Cupcakes. \u00a0There are simply too many better, and better for you, products out there. And that&#39;s what people are buying. Which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/more-on-the-possible-demise-of-twinkies.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More on the (Possible) Demise of Twinkies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32786,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/apparently-demand-for-hostess-brands-isnt-all-that-hot-either.html","url_meta":{"origin":31432,"position":0},"title":"Apparently demand for Hostess brands isn&#39;t all that hot, either","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Mar-13 11:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite Hostess having such wildly popular brands (or so it was said), that wasn't enough to keep the company from filing for bankruptcy. \u00a0But the lack of competition to buy those brands and recipes indicates that other companies recognize that, too -- everyone talks about how Twinkies and HoHos and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31392,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/gimme-some-sugar-sugar.html","url_meta":{"origin":31432,"position":1},"title":"Gimme some sugar, Sugar!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Nov-12 9:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Union workers striking\u00a0to maintain their already-cut salaries? \u00a0Dirty commie taker socialists!Sugar companies relying on protectionist import restrictions and tarriffs\u00a0to keep American sugar prices twice that of the world market? \u00a0Supporting good ol'\u00a0American agri-business!So ... which one actually did Twinkies in?(http:\/\/www.mjperry.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/sugar-tariffs-cost-americans-386.html for more on domestic vs. world sugar prices.) 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