Twinkies Maker Hostess Files for Chapter 11 Protection

[RickD]

buy all the twinkies you can now because they will be worth something 30 years from now.. Hostess Museum

[Brazoo]

I never liked Twinkies - they have no flavor - they just taste like sugar to me. I'd always rather have some homemade cake, or something from the bakery. Even chocolate bars are more exciting to me.

[torgospizza]

Wow...No one remembers when the Peanuts characters were on the Hostess pies? IT must have just been an Atlanta thing.

No, I remember that, and I'm from Missouri.

EDIT: I just searched on Google to see if I was remembering correctly, and it was Dolly Madison, rather than Hostess.

[Brazoo]

I remember the superhero cross-over ads - but Peanuts, no.

[jwyblejr]

That sounds funny. I will be sure to look for that.

Maybe that is the answer. There have been A LOT of MAJOR drug busts in the USA lately. Therefore, The munchie level has declined. It all makes perfectly good sense.

Then why hasn't it hurt Frito-Lay?

[livnxxxl]

buy all the twinkies you can now because they will be worth something 30 years from now.. Hostess Museum

From what I have read about Twinkies they will still be just as fresh 30 years from now as they are today. They seem to last for ever. In fact there was a website that I visited once while just browsing the net where I guy was doing experiments with Twinkies just to see how long it would take for one to finally get moldy.

In fact I just Googled it and the site still exists.

http://www.twinkiesproject.com/

A Hostess Museum would still be a cool idea though. They could show case the many boxes that Twinkies was packaged in from years past.

I have some of the older boxes with the baseball cards. Those were my favorite to.

[kennermike]

I remember the superhero cross-over ads - but Peanuts, no.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/4...a1a93693_o.jpg

grew up on these ads from Marvel and DC good stuf!

[Adam West]

The Peanuts characters were on the Dolly Madison pies and not the Hostess pies but, Dolly Madison is owned by Hostess.

[BOTZWANA]

No, I remember that, and I'm from Missouri.

EDIT: I just searched on Google to see if I was remembering correctly, and it was Dolly Madison, rather than Hostess.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/57/181...144b263a60.jpg

But correct me if I am wrong but doesn´t Hostess now own Dolly Madison?
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Yup they do. They could reestablish their relationship with the Peanuts gang. I would buy them because of the high nostalgia factor for sure.

[Adam West]

It's a Chapter 11 bankruptcy which isn't the worst kind....it gives the company an opportunity to restructure and exit bankruptcy. I worked for a company that went through Chapter 11. It allowed them to continue operating and under bankruptcy law allows them to basically nullify almost any contract. It does sound like the biggest issue has to do with the Union contracts including pension costs, etc. My company didn't have union workers so I'm not sure how that muddies the water.

[Mego Magyar]

I remember in the early 1970's Peanuts being on Wonder Bread - which is owned by Hostess. I still have a set of Peanuts patches that was offered through Wonder Bread back then.

[Brazoo]

I'm pretty sure licensing The Peanuts characters is crazy expensive.

[kennermike]

If Dont get my twinkie Ill scream!!!

[Mego Magyar]

I've been thinking about it and realized it wasn't Wonder Bread that had Peanuts on it when I was a kid in the 1970's, it was a bread called Millbrook. Millbrook was owned by the same company ( Interstate Bakeries Corporation ) that was the parent company of Dolly Madision who was a sponsor of the Peanut's specials 1970's.

[livnxxxl]

Then why hasn't it hurt Frito-Lay?

Think Domino effect. There time is coming.