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Hostess Twinkie factory near Chicago closing [400 Jobs Lost, Obama Goes Golfing]
CNBC ^
| 8/20/14
Posted on 08/21/2014 4:38:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The Schiller Park, Ill., bakery, where Twinkies were invented in 1930, will close according to an announcement by Hostess Brands on Wednesday....
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: jobs; obamanomics
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To: caver
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.
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posted on
08/21/2014 5:55:18 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
To: IYAS9YAS
I tried one a few years ago, it tasted like chemicals.
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posted on
08/21/2014 6:10:38 AM PDT
by
JohnnyP
To: YourAdHere
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. ;)
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posted on
08/21/2014 6:16:31 AM PDT
by
W.
(B. Clinton, B. 0bama. Both from fatherless homes. Don't let it happen again, America...)
To: IYAS9YAS
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.
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posted on
08/21/2014 6:49:09 AM PDT
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: SoFloFreeper
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.
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posted on
08/21/2014 6:59:09 AM PDT
by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
To: YourAdHere
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.
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:33:04 AM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: caver
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.
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posted on
08/21/2014 9:25:39 AM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.)
To: YourAdHere
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.
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posted on
08/21/2014 9:34:22 AM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.)
To: Scoutmaster
"some kind of Scouting dare."
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posted on
08/21/2014 9:35:41 AM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Apparently these workers voted to unionize in May.
Clueless as to the connection today, I’m sure.
To: Buckeye McFrog
Yep, they were thrilled with Obamanomics? Look at what happened.
To: suijuris
That explains it. I should have just read the label and saved a dollar.
(The cartoons were way better then, too.)
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posted on
08/22/2014 6:54:50 AM PDT
by
GBA
(Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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