What will you do if you can’t get a ding dong any more?
I haven’t had a Twinkie in a long time so I wouldn’t miss it much, but it would be a shame to see them go.
Didn’t Hostess file for bankruptcy protection a few months ago? It seems like the Twinkie is perpetually on the verge of extinction.
Given their amazing shelf life, there are probably enough lying around in desk drawers and the back of the pantry to last us another century or so.
I have a few chocolate Twinkies in my cupboard. I guess I should go stock up.
Worst-case scenario, Hostess gets bought out by Bimbo and they start putting the Twinkies on the same shelf as those tasty Mexican cakes I forget the name of.
It’s not like the Hostess brand isn’t a valuable commodity. It’s just that the company is poorly managed.
Out of interest, where you do buy Twinkies in New York? My husband and I were there earlier this year and could not find any at all!
A minor nitpick: The headline should read “Poor management at Hostess could kill off Twinkies.” The management of Hostess have gotten themselves in a situation where the company cannot continue as it is. They would like to gut the pensions of their rank-and-file employees in order to keep the company going for a while. That may or may not keep the poorly run company afloat.
Twinkies are like heroin. If you can’t make a profit selling them you are doing something wrong.
I can’t help but picture Elaine Benes looking around the room & wondering if people were creme-filled sponge worthy…
They filed in January. Thread
Wait, there’s such a thing as a chocolate Twinkie? I may need to buy a box.
As for the dire warnings about the end of the company, I assume that someone will buy the company itself or its products out of bankruptcy. I can’t imagine that anyone would let such well-known products go extinct.
For instance, here’s the website of a company called River West Brands, that owns formerly well-known brand names like Coleco, Bonwit Teller and Brim Coffee and is trying to revive them. I don’t think Hostess or its products are even as dead as those names, so presumably someone else will buy the company and keep the products going. My best guess would be another snack food manufacturer.
Yep. I see them on the shelf at Wal-Mart, where I shop, all the time. They also had banana Twinkies and strawberry Twinkies in the past.
Back when I was going to animation school, my roommate and I placed a McDonald’s apple pie in its cardboard package on the kitchen table. And left it there for six months. There was no visible change to the pie.
Twinkies are like that, only more so. I think I read something long ago that claimed that, ultimately, they are edible plastic.
Not even close to accurate. Enriched wheat flour, sugar, and corn syrup are the top three ingredients. Here’s a full list of ingredients. No edible plastic here! 
There’s an awful lot of misinformation about twinkies flying around this thread, regarding shelf life and such. I always wonder how these ideas get so deeply rooted and widely believed.
It’s a joke, son. No reality intervention is necessary.
You saw the guy above who thought twinkies were edible plastic, right?
Maybe the wheat flour is enriched with plastic!
A possibility so delicious, I didn’t even dare to consider it! 
It’s not that someone might buy the company. It’s current management stating if there is a union strike management will close the company. Management appears to have no intention to allow anyone to buy the company and keep the Twinkies/Ding Dongs/HoHos going.
http://www.thedeal.com/content/restructuring/bankruptcy-judge-gives-hostess-more-time.php
No, I said I read something somewhere that said they were. 