Hostess files for Chapter 11

Pete Zicato • Jan 11, 2012 10:15 am
Oh Noes. Twinkies are a major food group for me.
Pico and ME • Jan 11, 2012 10:49 am
Awwww....no more Ho Ho's either???

Sad day.
Lamplighter • Jan 11, 2012 11:14 am
What if Hostess and Kodak merge to make cupcakes with pictures that never fade... win-win ?
infinite monkey • Jan 11, 2012 1:31 pm
I knew this was going to happen. The whole King Don/Ding Dong thing was the stupidest thing since New Coke.

Aren't twinkies and cockroaches the only things that will survive a nuclear attack?
Pete Zicato • Jan 11, 2012 1:48 pm
infinite monkey;786782 wrote:

Aren't twinkies and cockroaches the only things that will survive a nuclear attack?

Well, there's foot. He's got those arrows and all.
infinite monkey • Jan 11, 2012 1:50 pm
Are you calling foot a twinkie? :bolt:

But seriously folks, now that you mention it, if the apocalypse comes we'll all meet at foot's place. It'll be like The Stand.
Sundae • Jan 11, 2012 3:02 pm
No, the sign of the coming apocalypse is a Twinkie THIRTY-FIVE feet long, not three.
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Pete Zicato • Jan 11, 2012 3:04 pm
"That's some Twinkie".

One of my favorite movies evar.
fargon • Jan 11, 2012 6:40 pm
Waaaaa!!! Where is the link?
classicman • Jan 11, 2012 9:15 pm
fargon;786872 wrote:
Waaaaa!!! Where is the link?

take your pick
classicman • Jan 11, 2012 11:19 pm
Andy Borowitz: If you manufacture Twinkies in the fattest nation on the planet
and somehow go bankrupt, you should be ashamed.
Trilby • Jan 12, 2012 5:56 am
It's because I'm doing Atkins.
Flint • Jan 12, 2012 7:42 am
Pete Zicato;786725 wrote:
Oh Noes. Twinkies are a major food group for me.

Have you seen Zombieland? The Woody Harrelson character has a thing for Twinkies.
kerosene • Jan 12, 2012 9:34 pm
infinite monkey;786790 wrote:
Are you calling foot a twinkie? :bolt:


That is sort of a good pet name.
monster • Jan 12, 2012 10:34 pm
A little girl goes to the barber shop with her father. She stands next to the barber's chair eating a snack cake, while her dad gets his hair cut. The barber says to her, "Sweetheart, you're gonna get hair on your Twinkie." She says, "Yes, I know, and I'm gonna get boobs, too.


Funny, I was just thinking the other day "how come the major fast food chains never go bankrupt" then I thought... comfort eating happens in recession, you lose your job that's where you should invest your last paycheck/severence....." .....so....could this be a sign of the end of the "economic downturn"?



ch'yeah :lol:
Sundae • Jan 13, 2012 12:27 pm
McDonalds pulled out of Iceland at the beginning of the recession.
The franchise rules meant that the food/ materials needed to be imported from Germany and it was not financially viable. At the time they closed they were selling the most expensive Big Macs in the world.

It doesn't help that there are only enough people in the country to fill a medium sized city elsewhere in Europe. Which explains why there were only three branches.
glatt • Jan 13, 2012 1:08 pm
When we stopped over in Iceland in the early 80s on a flight back to the States, we went into a fast food burger place to try to get a cheap meal. We were starving. The burgers were like 5 times more than they would have been anywhere else. Very shocking when they rang everything up. In hindsight, we should have looked for a fish place.
infinite monkey • Jan 13, 2012 7:53 pm
glatt;787567 wrote:
When we stopped over in Iceland in the early 80s on a flight back to the States, we went into a fast food burger place to try to get a cheap meal. We were starving. The burgers were like 5 times more than they would have been anywhere else. Very shocking when they rang everything up. In hindsight, we should have looked for a fish place.


You were the travellingest damn family I ever heard of! You've been to so many places. That's amazing.

I've actually never left the country. :eek:
tw • Jan 13, 2012 11:05 pm
Sundae;787547 wrote:
McDonalds pulled out of Iceland at the beginning of the recession.
The Economist rates currency values using a Big Mac index. Icelandic Krona is not listed. That would explain why.
Gravdigr • Jan 14, 2012 2:53 am
infinite monkey;787805 wrote:
I've actually never left the country. :eek:


I almost said "Me neither", but, I remembered I've been to Canadia.
Sundae • Jan 14, 2012 5:27 am
Iceland is on my "to go to" list.
But then so many other places are too!
Aliantha • Jan 14, 2012 6:18 am
A regular big mac meal over here will cost you around $8.
glatt • Jan 14, 2012 8:02 am
Back then, if you were flying from Europe to NYC, the cheapest flight was offered by Icelandair out of Luxembourg. They stopped over in Iceland for either 1 hour, or 25 hours. Your choice. We chose the 25 hour option, of course. All our luggage remained checked, so we only had our carry ons for that day. We rented a minivan and drove all around and even slept in the van. It was pretty miserable "camping" because we didn't even have blankets, and had no food either. But we saw a corner of Iceland, which was really fun. A huge waterfall, some geysers and bubbling mud pits, the capitol city (which was tiny), lots of thick moss covered landscapes. Went into a grocery store at one point looking for some breakfast and was amazed at the freezers full of fish. They had lots of fish.
Gravdigr • Jan 14, 2012 11:07 am
Aliantha;787869 wrote:
A regular big mac meal over here will cost you around $8.


Our McD's aren't quite that high for the regular combo, but Burger King & Wendy's & Hardee's/Carl'sJr are all right there.
wolf • Jan 16, 2012 7:09 pm
I blame the lack of Chocodiles for Hostess' financial problems.
BigV • Jan 16, 2012 7:48 pm
Capital city.

ftfy.
Sheldonrs • Jan 18, 2012 12:35 pm
Brianna;786955 wrote:
It's because I'm doing Atkins.


And he doesn't like it when you have a twinkie in your mouth? ;)
footfootfoot • Jan 18, 2012 12:56 pm
Aliantha;787869 wrote:
A regular big mac meal over here will cost you around $8.


Yes, but those are Australian dollars. In terms of US currency, $8 Australian dollars could buy a small house here.
footfootfoot • Jan 18, 2012 12:58 pm
Lamplighter;786745 wrote:
What if Hostess and Kodak merge to make cupcakes with pictures that never fade... win-win ?


Then they'd have to file chapter 22. Or would it be 5.5?
glatt • Jan 18, 2012 1:00 pm
footfootfoot;788917 wrote:
$8 Australian dollars could buy a small house here.


It's true
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footfootfoot • Jan 18, 2012 1:11 pm
haggis
Gravdigr • Jan 18, 2012 1:16 pm
Well, you could always make your own...

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