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Illinois a terrible hostess: Twinkies leave the state
Illinois Policy Institute ^ | August 22, 2014 | Austin Berg

Posted on 08/23/2014 11:53:00 AM PDT by re_tail20

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To: re_tail20

Eventually most of these companies who are forced to hire
union will leave for the south and right to work states.
Then the the northeast yankers are going to do the
same thing they did in 1861. Pass a bunch or regulations
and tariffs that only the right to work states have to
comply with. The next civil war will be the northeast yankers
doing the same thing they did the last time. Cause a war
to rape the south of it’s wealth.


21 posted on 08/23/2014 12:21:52 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: re_tail20

This author does realize that this Hostess is actually a different company from the old Hostess, right?


22 posted on 08/23/2014 12:33:26 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

That Hostess company ceased to exist and another company bought up the brands and changed its name to Hostess


23 posted on 08/23/2014 12:35:28 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: re_tail20

Twinkies®
can survive
nuclear war,
not a union.


24 posted on 08/23/2014 12:35:55 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: re_tail20

Are Ding Dongs dead?


25 posted on 08/23/2014 12:36:13 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: jocon307
And they didn’t bring back the Drake’s brand

Who bought the rights to it when Hostess went belly up?

26 posted on 08/23/2014 12:36:45 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

No assurance of that.The liberal talking heads will run their mouthes until the facts come around to bitch-slap them.


27 posted on 08/23/2014 12:39:14 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: re_tail20
Union leaders ... would have been wise ...

Leaders? How about the rank and file who voted to jump aboard the sinking ship? Didn't THEY learn from their brethren?

28 posted on 08/23/2014 12:40:36 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: Parley Baer

I hope they get a new mayor—I just LOVE her—LOL


29 posted on 08/23/2014 12:46:23 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: GeronL

I don’t know, I don’t know if anyone did.

They have a coffee cake now, branded as Hostess, I tried it, OK, but way too sweet, just not the same at all. And square, I liked those round ones, even though in general I like square things.


30 posted on 08/23/2014 12:50:22 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: re_tail20
It's bad for Twinkies all over.

In a related story ...

Gay bathhouses nationwide face uncertain future

31 posted on 08/23/2014 12:54:41 PM PDT by x
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32 posted on 08/23/2014 12:57:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: GeronL; jocon307

The Drakes line was brought back here in New England. Some items were cut apparently because I never see Funny Bones, but other items are there and the boxes look the same as they looked before the original Hostess closed shop.


33 posted on 08/23/2014 12:59:42 PM PDT by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: jocon307; GeronL

Apollo Global Management LLC (APO) and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co.

Metropoulos & Co. has purchased several instantly recognizable all-American brands, including Bumble Bee Tuna, Chef Boyardee, and Pabst Blue Ribbon

http://business.time.com/2013/03/21/how-do-you-revive-twinkies-a-qa-with-the-new-owners-the-metropoulous-brothers/


34 posted on 08/23/2014 12:59:44 PM PDT by digger48
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To: re_tail20
Couldn't happen to a better state.

LOLARMAOOTF

35 posted on 08/23/2014 1:05:05 PM PDT by sr4402
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To: re_tail20

I guess the union sure showed them, huh.


36 posted on 08/23/2014 1:18:25 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Paladin2

“Companies want to be located in a State named after Indians?”

Good point. If the “Redskins” must change their name, so should Illinois. It isn’t the name of the “native Americans”, it is the name the French gave them.


37 posted on 08/23/2014 1:29:50 PM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: re_tail20

Workers voted to go union....talk about clueless!!! I’m sorry but anytime a union asshole joins the ranks of the unemployed I get a warm fuzzy feeling!!


38 posted on 08/23/2014 1:40:17 PM PDT by ontap
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To: re_tail20

This is really bad news for Illinois, because as we all know, if Hostess Twinkies farts, the national economy get diarrhea, or something like that.


39 posted on 08/23/2014 1:44:31 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: jocon307

When the original Hostess went Chapter 7, various brands and recipes were sold to multiple organizations.

Looks like Drakes is still in business, just not my Hostess LLC:

https://www.google.com/search?q=drakes+brand&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=Palemoon:en-US&client=palemoon


40 posted on 08/23/2014 1:50:40 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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