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Get ready to say goodbye to Twinkies - LKTraz - 11-15-2012
Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, is likely going to end up closing down.
Read about it ==> http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-hostess-bankruptcy-liquidation-idUSBRE8AE1QE20121115
RE: Get ready to say goodbye to Twinkies - Gunnen4u - 11-15-2012
Good. If Americans can't care enough to stop shoving shitty food down their gullet, then the companies that make the crap shutting down is the next best thing. I am not saying we should force their shut down, I am just saying it is a good thing overall.
Give it about a week of no twinkies, and it will be like they never existed.
RE: Get ready to say goodbye to Twinkies - AnthonyG - 11-15-2012
There is nothing wrong with twinkies or any other kind of junk food, the problem is people dont have self control. The bigger lying problem here is a legendary company is going out of business because it lost its right to decide what it wants to pay its employee's. Fuck union's, they don't do shit for 98% of business's or the consumer and they raise the cost of goods and kill our ability to be competitive in the international market.
RE: Get ready to say goodbye to Twinkies - Gunnen4u - 11-15-2012
Yea, and the fact people don't have self-control is what the market looks for and, you guessed it, sells its products with this in mind. To be honest, I could care less about people making their own decisions, since most of them are instant gratification animals with no concept of a higher meaning to life. I won't tell them no or force them to do things, but it sure is nice when something goes belly up so they have one less option as an enabler.
And oh yes, fuck union quite a bit. At the same time, not even non-unionized workers have a hard time competing with slave labor in foreign markets.
Thing is, while I hate a lot of unions, the Nurse's Union has done A LOT for my mom with a current problem she is having with the hospital she has worked for the last 39 years. And this isn't a mediocre woman -- she has received awards, accolades, and all sorts of shit over the years for being a good nurse. Yea, they are trying to get rid of her just before she retires so they don't have to pay her pension or any of that shit, and replace her (an LPN) with an RN spot. They are citing her hearing problems as the issue, when it didn't seem to be a problem for the last 39 years. How convenient. It's all VERY SHADY in how they are doing this, the amount of bullshit involved, the backstabbing and scheming - her union came in and raised a ruckus with the hospital. Awaiting a decision tomorrow for the whole fiasco. Needless to say, I am not happy with this, but at least the union was there with lawyers, the labor law books, regulations, and contract obligations to keep my mother from being fucked over hardcore.
But yea, a business should have the choice to do what it wants to do all the time because it feels like it......same with firing them -- if they want to just do it, they can, it is their right. Don't like it, start your own business ahahahaha
Is it wrong to hate capitalism and communism/socialism at the same time?
RE: Get ready to say goodbye to Twinkies - AnthonyG - 11-16-2012
thats why I said 98% there is a handful of unions that are good, but its rare and far between them.
RE: Get ready to say goodbye to Twinkies - Twitchin Kitten - 11-16-2012
Twinkies Deconstructed. What's really in those buggers?
RE: Get ready to say goodbye to Twinkies - twisteroo - 11-16-2012
Be honest, when you looked at the news today did you click on twinkies or the fiscal cliff first?
RE: Get ready to say goodbye to Twinkies - Twitchin Kitten - 11-16-2012
I haven't had time to look on the news yet today!
RE: Get ready to say goodbye to Twinkies - AnthonyG - 11-16-2012
Twinkies are going for 30 dollars a box on ebay lol. There is a guy that figured out the recipe the way it was back in 1930's I am tempted to try and make that some time. I am sure it will taste alot better then the chemical loaded ones of today. Interestingly enough Twinkies originally had some sort of banana cream filling but during WWII it was hard to get banana's so vanilla replaced it.
RE: Get ready to say goodbye to Twinkies - twisteroo - 11-16-2012
The latest news is saying to chillax, they aren't going anywhere. Anyone want to help me eat 500 cases of twinkies?