This is insane.
We are watching one of the top snack brands being slaughtered by unions.
I sure hope those 18,000 are happy with themselves when they are out of work. Some other company will buy the brand names and produce the cakes elsewhere.
Does anyone out there have a good copycat recipe for the Hostess Ding Dongs?
What’s next???
No mo Ho Hos?
Death knell for Ding Dongs?
Cheeze Whiz wipe out?
Just watch, this has the potential to curb global snacking, and decrease the obesity index...
I can’t believe the prices on snack cakes in stores today; like candy bars, I simply refuse to buy them at those prices (as I get older I crave them less and less, like fast food). I don’t know what impact unions have on those prices, but I’m sure some of it is the underlying commmodities used as ingredients and a big part of it is the unreported inflation driving everything up.
I heard a deli owner complaining about them, as they sit on his shelves taking up space and don’t move until their expiration nears and a bright orange discount sticker is placed on them. I loved this stuff when I was younger, and could buy it with my paper-route money; I couldn’t imagine many 12 year-olds have the kind of money to buy them now.
Our children will definitely not have the standard of living we had, while we will never have the standard of living our parents had.
Sad to see them decline, but their products got progressively smaller and more expensive, starting several years ago.
With any luck, they can retain their patented brands, and start again, if they care to move to right to work states.
The downward “progress” may have been a bi-product of the union label!
Too late, they already do that and at a far cheaper cost!
Slaughtered by Unions.. And Michelle Obama who’s declared ‘WAR ON SNACKS’ and freedom of choice as she raids children’s lunch boxes and confiscates their Twinkies. That reminds me, when’s her next luxurious, tax payer funded vacation of frills and perks?
HoHo is the best!