# Twinkies Coming Back July 15!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720 "2013-06-23T19:44:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/21 "2013-06-25T11:35:01Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I’m hoping Zingers will be included – yummy yummy Zingers! Raspberry Zingers with coconut… it’s like springtime in my mouth! > [@AngelSoft](#): > > Omg orange cupcakes and snoballs are back? There goes my fucking diet. Mine too. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/22 "2013-06-25T15:15:14Z")
Never mind Hostess- will DRAKE’S products ever return? ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/23 "2013-06-25T20:18:39Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Have you heard more exciting news… in the last 5 minutes? Well, I just learned that a key provision of the Voter’s Rights Act was struck down allowing local officials to disenfranchise minority votes through political shenanigans which will now take years to undo rather than be prevented from happening in the first place. But, I guess this is more exciting. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/24 "2013-06-26T01:57:33Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I bet their is going internet outrage that the new twinkies do not taste as good as ‘original recipe’ twinkies. Well, they won’t. > [@installLSC](#): > > I wonder how successful the Twinkie reintroduction will be. Yes the brand has fantastic name recognition, but in the meantime Little Debbie/Freshleys/store brands have taken their shelf space. I wouldn’t be suprised if, short of giving grocery stores big money, that shelf space stays with the other brands. ‘Round these parts, Little Debbie has expanded its line and raised its prices, probably to fill the shelf space and to pay for it, and Freshley’s has made a big push into the Chicago market, where it had been in low-discount stores only, and raised their prices accordingly. Then there’s that French-Canadian brand that showed up recently, and Bimbo’s equally-overpriced snacks. There’s already been a lot spent on that shelf space, and Hostess is coming back as the acknowledged premium brand. I assume the store chains’ accountants are rubbing their hands in glee. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/25 "2013-07-13T01:14:30Z")
"Twinkies are making an early comeback at Wal-Mart stores, and they won’t be frozen beforehand. The world’s largest retailer says it is selling the snack cakes at about 1,600 stores starting Friday and that about 3,000 of its 4,000 U.S. stores should have them by Sunday morning, a day before Hostess had said the spongy yellow cakes would start hitting shelves nationwide." > **[Twinkies make early return at Wal-Mart stores](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/12/twinkies-make-early-return-wal-mart/2511927/)** > > Wal-mart says it is selling the snack cakes at about 1,600 stores starting Friday Hasn’t anyone rushed over to buy them yet? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/26 "2013-07-15T14:35:29Z")
It’s T-Day! ---
**Author:** ![Cell\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/27 "2013-07-15T15:04:24Z")
The wife picked up a box Saturday morning at the grocery store. The box was gone by the afternoon. I’ve never felt so sick in my life. It was worth it. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/28 "2013-07-15T19:33:03Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Never mind Hostess- will DRAKE’S products ever return? [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145\_162-57590754/new-owner-drakes-cakes-also-returning-soon/](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57590754/new-owner-drakes-cakes-also-returning-soon/) > [@](#): > > Many of the most famous cakes – such as Twinkies, CupCakes and Donettes – were purchased by a pair of investment firms that say they plan to have them back on shelves by July 15. > > Drake’s cakes, meanwhile, were snapped up by longtime Hostess rival McKee Foods, which makes Little Debbie snacks. McKee said in an email Monday that **Drake’s cakes should be back by “late summer/early fall.”** The company says it will start with a selection of Drake’s products and see whether to bring back more products after that. > It did not say which products it will roll out first or whether all Drake’s cakes would eventually return to shelves. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/29 "2013-07-15T19:38:49Z")
> [@Cell\_Guy](#): > > The wife picked up a box Saturday morning at the grocery store. The box was gone by the afternoon. I’ve never felt so sick in my life. > > It was worth it. So they taste the same? ---
**Author:** ![Cell\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/30 "2013-07-15T21:01:36Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > So they taste the same? I didn’t notice any difference, but according to my wife I didn’t really take the time to taste them. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/31 "2023-09-11T18:11:03Z")
> **[Twinkies are sold! J.M. Smucker scoops up Hostess Brands for $5.6 billion](https://www.npr.org/2023/09/11/1198741169/smucker-hostess-brands-twinkies)** > > For Hostess, the deal with the peanut-butter-and-jelly conglomerate is a sweet win after not one, but two bankruptcies. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720/32 "2023-09-11T18:27:51Z")
> [@gonzoron](#): > > Wake me up when the yodels are back… **WAKE UP!** [https://drakescake.com/www/cakes/view/9/yodels](https://drakescake.com/www/cakes/view/9/yodels) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twinkies-coming-back-july-15/661720.md?page=1)