Hostess Cake/Wonder Bread

[Jrlobo]

Let's have some respect for the dead. Someone needs to bury the twinkie and say a few words over it. I vote for Tyler. Tyler would have the right bible passages in a nanosecond. He's impressive with his research that even Google can't rival. And, then, let's all forget about it. What this country needs is a good 5c cigar; ask BC about that.

[tombogan03884]

My understanding it was during ww2 they could not get bannas so they switched.  no real loss. I hate bannas  always have.

Why could they not get bananas ?
Bananas come from Central America .

[TAB]

Most likly a cost thing or the war department took them.  Just the story I have heard

[Big Frank]

If twinkies were still banana flavored I would eat them. And TAB is right according to snopes.  http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/twinkies.asp

[Solus]

Twinkie recipe
Step one, go to Springfield
Step two, avoiding the hounds,visit  Monty Burns' house and get a barrel of nuclear waste......(Smithers might cut you a better deal) or check Homer's back pockets.
Step three......

You gotta think outside the box, FQ....

Think almond flour, a bit of corn meal and a Stevia sweetened whipped yogurt  center, maybe?

[Sponsor]

[MikeBjerum]

I don't understand all of the uproar and consternation.  Open a cookbook, turn on the oven, and bake some stuff!  My wife makes stuff far better than anything made by this conglomerate, and she does it for a fraction of the price.  Fruit pies, whoopie pies, skunks, and cookies    All we need to do is put them in the lunch box on the way out the door in the morning, and I have my driving treat or meeting break snack to get my sugar high.

I feel for the 18,500 or so that will be out of work, but Pres. BHO claims we are doing so well that they will have no problem finding a better job anyway.

[Solus]

Well, since there seems to be major union involvement in this event, many employees either directly or indirectly supported BHO's re-election.

[jnevis]

Well, since there seems to be major union involvement in this event, many employees either directly or indirectly supported BHO's re-election.

Most of them don't get it and don't care.

We were discussing this today here.  This may, hopefully, be a first step in forcing unions out of the workplace.  Unions were a useful entity in the 20s-30s but aren't any longer.  Look at all the money taxpayers have spent on bailouts and subsidies because a unionized company can't afford to do business anymore between Federal/state and union regulations.  Most union employees think the union is doing them a favor, when in fact they are taking thier money for lawyer fees and for the leadership perks that the worker never sees.  Hostess finally said"fine, we close and sell the brand off to a non-unioin company that can make it better." 

Someone mentioned that the current union rules for Hostess is that only one product type can be transported in a van marked for that product.  More unioin employees to drive the stuff around but exponential costs in maintenance and supply chain management.  Now a non-union company can take over and streamline the process and save 30% or more.  Yes, there would be layoffs, but they're being laid-off anyway if the company closes. 

[TAB]

Unions are both good and bad.  Unions that train people ( like the old school construction trades) to do tasks are a good thing.   the other unions, I don't see much use for these days.

[Jrlobo]

TAB/Tom, My mother explained to me that during WWII, bananas were rationed due to shipping restrictions related to the war effort. This apparently occurred at the time our doctor put me on a banana diet to combat a potassium deficiency. So, my mother traded cigarette ration coupons (she didn't smoke anyway) in order to get some bananas for me. Interestingly, my current doctor tells me that I have a potassium deficiency (still?) and what do you think he prescribes for this? A banana a day! There are other food sources, of course, but bananas are the easy thing to consume at breakfast. Banana creme centers for twinkies would be health food for me!