Hostess should offer the union employees a discount on remaining stock. They can eat cake! Hhahahahhahahahahahaahahaaha....when they’re starving, they can pop open a Twinkie and think about the good old days.
Screw them.
I remember when the printers union went on strike against the Los Angeles Herald Examiner in 1966. Those guys are still on strike.
Ode to a Twinkie
Oh, Twinkie with your golden hue,
You have delicious goop in you.
There you are! Were you waiting long,
Between Sno-balls and stale Ding Dong?
My friends all think I’m kinda kinky
Cause my role model is a twinkie.
But they don’t know what we’ve been through.
Dear Twinkie, I can count on you.
I tell my troubles as I bite.
You never tell me, “That’s not right.”
You listen to each foolish fear,
Then slowly, deliciously disappear.
I hold you close when we’re alone
And think the thoughts that are my own.
Then turn to you, my dear sweet yummie.
You clear my mind, tickle my tummie.
Your outside is a little plain,
But inside you are “mellow lane.”
I like you better than these folks,
Who look at me and then make jokes.
People should be more like you.
You don’t judge the things folks do.
Inside is where your beauty lies.
Within the plain, there’s sweet surprise.
—Grandpa Tucker
Copyright ©1997 by Bob Tucker
(I guess this needs to be reworded as a lament now. Oh, Twinkie, I hardly knew thee.
That they are still a going concern with all of the unnecessary debt load that was incurred via all of the non-value-added sales is a miracle.
The history of Hostess is even more checkered. At one time they were owned by a computer company! That they survived as long as they did through a series of incompetent management and unnecessary and non-value-added sales is also a miracle.
The unions may have been the ones to put the final nail in the coffin, but most of the nails were put in my Bain-type idiots who were more concerned with short-term profits than maintaining the longterm health of a company that provided a product that millions of people enjoyed.
It ain’t over until the court grant’s Hostess their request.
Obama may not let them close the doors; Mssrs Thompson and Mouch have yet to be consulted.
Still cannot find out where these layoffs will actually take place.
LMAO poetic justice i’ve watched on the teli these folks with hostess crying about how unfair it is to cut their pay by 8% and how unfair it is for them to go out of business but NOTHING about how unjust it is for them to go on strike when the economy that we are living under is crushing all kinds of factories to dust including theirs !...
Bet these unions will start taking a second look at how protected they are once they start losing members and get shut down due to lack of income ! then again maybe they aren’t that bright after all !
But, good liberals such as Michelle Obama and Bloomberg, who want to save us from junk food and sodas, may actually be happy about the troubles of the company which makes Twinkies.
Michelle has stated that food deserts in our cities have too many stores which sell stuff like chips and other junk food, and don’t have fresh produce and other healthy fare.
There was an article out of Orlando, the strikers WANTED it to shut down and liquidate. They were convinced a new owner would honor their original contracts.
Serious delusions.
But, good liberals such as Michelle Obama and Bloomberg, who want to save us from junk food and sodas, may actually be happy about the troubles of the company which makes Twinkies.
Michelle has stated that food deserts in our cities have too many stores which sell stuff like chips and other junk food, and don’t have fresh produce and other healthy fare.
This is very well written. Even a democrat could understand it.
Went to the grocery store this morning and got the last box of Cupcakes, Ding Dongs, and the two remaining Snowballs and fruit pies. A lady in front of me took all the Twinkies, 25 boxes for her office.
That’s it. The liberals have helped destoy an American enterprise all in the name of greed.
Let them eat cake.
“Well, let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of socialism in the United States. According to this morning’s sample it would be a Twinkie…thirty-five feet long weighing approximately six-hundred pounds.”
They are not getting “laid off”. Their jobs are being “eliminated”. Big Diff.
A government that can make you buy insurance can make you take out a loan to cover the added overhead of a union contract and force you to sign the union deal Don’t beleive me - just ask john roberts.
A caller to yesterday’s Tom Sullivan Show claimed there are already buyers in line for the great Hostess line of product, and that Hostess route men who deliver the product need to keep relationships with their stores since the product will likely be rebooted under a different name. Conceivably a lay off may be dramatic but there would be a possibility that it could be short lived. Meanwhile, it’s a certainty that the media will flog the drama.
This morning I went to the Hostess outlet store here in Fort Worth and loaded up on Twinkies, Ding Dongs and cup cakes for old times sake. hey were out of pink SnowBalls.
The brand and products have value and will be sold. The buyer will not be a union shop.