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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Snack-A-Geddon: Twinkies Completely Gone From Local Shelves

Lynnfield is now a Twinkie-free town, although some individual specimens likely survive. Captain Cupcake and that duck from the Drake's boxes? They don't work here anymore either.

In recent days, we've all heard about the looming demise of the Hostess snack cake company - which to further compound the Cupcake Cataclysm of 2012 also includes the Drake's brand. It's been less than a week since news broke of the company's shutdown - but in Lynnfield, there's already just a very, very small handful of Hostess and Drake's snack products left on any shelves, with no more in sight. On Monday, I channeled my inner Woody Harrelson from "Zombieland" and took a ride to various businesseses in Lynnfield to see for myself whether there was a single Twinkie left on any store shelves in the area. The answer is a big "No." And I even stopped in at that Gulf Station on Route 1 on the Saugus line - where not a trace of anything …

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William Laforme

9:17 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012

You got it! I think just for the heck of it I'll try to make some out of Wonder Bread. There only seems to be a year or so supply of that stuff left.   more ›

Monday, November 19, 2012

Death of the Ding-Dong, Twinkie, Wonder Bread: Hostess to Close

Reports are that Hostess is starting to close down after a labor dispute. End of a beloved era, or good riddance to junk food heaven?

Twinkies. Hostess Cupcakes. Wonder Bread. Ding-dongs. They will be gone forever, with reports that Hostess Brands, Inc., said Friday that it will sell off or close down its 82-year old business. Done in, the CEO claims, by labor union action. Hostess filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January. The company has been challenged by not only by snarly labor relations, and a national strike by its second-largest labor union, but also, posits the Wall Street Journal, by consumers switching to healthier foods and high ingredient costs.  One caveat: The Journal says that Hostess has threatened liquidation before, and not followed through. The move puts 18,500 workers out of their jobs, CNN reports. What do you think about this end to a …

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Mari

12:30 am on Saturday, December 1, 2012

Oh shut up, people choose because we still have a right to eat whatever we want. I eat a din-dong once a year. So what are you the food police. You people better get it in you head straight that we are in charge of food not the government cronies wife preaching what to eat. Self responsibility. BREAD IS A STAPLE!   more ›

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