Hostess Twinkie factory near Chicago closing [400 Jobs Lost, Obama Goes Golfing]

CNBC ^ | 8/20/14

[IYAS9YAS]

Your parents must have really hated you, not to buy you any Twinkies!

My wife bought a box for the kiddies. It's still sitting on the counter, mostly full. I tried one. Blech. Nothing like I remember as a kid. There was just something wrong with the taste.

[JohnnyP]

I tried one a few years ago, it tasted like chemicals.

[W.]

I swear, nothing tastes like it ‘used to.’ I wonder if it either my taster’s going flat or that manufacturers have cheapened up the recipes to the point of changing the taste. Probably both, but my sense of smell seems unchanged, but it was always strongest of my senses, being part bloodhound, or something like it. ;)

[caver]

I’ve lost my desire for sweets as I’ve got older, so I’m sure the Twinkies don’t taste like I used to think they did.

[Amagi]

Let me guess.
Some combination of horrible socialist economy, commie union thugs, asinine government regulations, and confiscatory taxation claim another private sector victim.
FU dirtbags.

[Grams A]

They don’t taste nearly as good now as they did thirty years ago.”

Nothing seems to taste like it did years ago. We can thank the FDA and the libs for that. Not only must everything have the fat, sodium and gluten removed but also the taste.

[Scoutmaster]

I never liked any mass-produced, processed baked good. I might eat one today on some kind of Scouting, but I'd probably prefer to keep the perfect record.

I've also never tried a Moon Pie.

I'm not a picky eater at all. I've eaten all kinds of cooked bugs, rattlesnake, mountain oysters, scorpion, live fish, bear, lion, ostrich, emu, venison, squirrel, etc.

[Scoutmaster]

I can't tell you about Reese's cups, because I ate my first one in graduate school, spurred on by a Purdue graduate who pronounced them "Reece-ee's."

I can tell you that Sonic drive-in hamburgers taste nothing like they did in Oklahoma back in the very early 1960s.

Heck, Sonic hasn't even offered a #4 burger in decades.

For those who grew up without Oakie relatives, a #4 burger featured BBQ sauce and onions. It was a clear favorite around the oil and gas fields.

[Scoutmaster]

"some kind of Scouting dare."

[Buckeye McFrog]

Apparently these workers voted to unionize in May.

Clueless as to the connection today, I’m sure.

[SoFloFreeper]

Yep, they were thrilled with Obamanomics? Look at what happened.

[GBA]

That explains it. I should have just read the label and saved a dollar.
(The cartoons were way better then, too.)