who killed the twinkie?

I never had a twinkie. My dad owned a bakery, I had all the cake and pastries I needed, why would we buy one from the store? But now I have to wonder, did I miss out? Hmmm... Guess I'll never know.
 
Oh, for the record, I do like Wonder Bread. My prior work place was directly next to the Wonder Bread factory. Damn, that smelled good. their bread does stay fresh unusually long though...
 
Unions

The work rules imposed in union contracts required Hostess company to deliver the Twinkies and Wonder Bread to stores in separate trucks. Moreover, delivery drivers were not allowed to load either of these products into their trucks. And the people who did load Twinkies into trucks were not allowed to load Wonder Bread.

Why Hostess is dead
 
Consumers.
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I'm just surprised they missed a golden opportunity to blame ObamaCare.
 
Glaucus said:
I never had a twinkie. My dad owned a bakery, I had all the cake and pastries I needed, why would we buy one from the store? But now I have to wonder, did I miss out? Hmmm... Guess I'll never know.
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You didn't miss out. Real bakery is better. The twinkie is a long shelf life baked product loaded with lard and guar gum to give it a "moist" mouth feel and with a creamy filling that I'm sure has more constituents that came out of a hole in some desert rather than the udder of any cow. I'm surprised that it sold as well as it did for as long as it did.
 
metalman said:
Unions
Why Hostess is dead
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So when the unions take a 30% pay cut and the management give themselves giant raises while failing to take the changes in the food market into account and the creditors are squeezing the company for money the fault lies with the people who do the work. Imagine if you made $50k a year and agreed to take $35k a year to keep the company you worked for alive while the CEO tripled his income to a couple of million and then he comes to you and asks you to take a cut to $25k a year. Who would you say is making the greater effort to keep the company afloat? You or the CEO?

The union trashing article you linked above talks about how some companies pay employees well enough to prevent them from joining unions. Imagine what those companies would pay if there were no unions to worry about. At the end of the article the author seems to lament that the public sector employees are paid so much - because, so long as the public sector is providing the example of the kind of wages you CAN get if you are unionized it provides a constant threat to private employers' ability to keep applying downward wage pressure. The elites dream about being able to get rid of unions so they can go back to treating people the way they did before there were unions.
 
I for one knows actually 2 similar cases in my direct surroundings. So I guess this happens a lot... think of the burden it has on society!
 
Another example of the unions wrecking the US? Oops, no. It just another example of the same guys who wrecked the country before playing the same games they played when they were wrecking the US before. Bankers messing with the energy prices to skim a load of unearned money off of the economy. THIS is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Sucking the money out of the economy while producing nothing is what kills companies.
 

Sponge cakes filled with vanilla icing

Serves: 12
Ingredients
3 eggs, separated
¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
¼ cup boiling water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup cake flour, sifted
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
Filling/Icing:
4 tablespoons soft butter
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon heavy cream or milk
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
 
i too, killed the twinkie when i learned to make them at home... when you whip the filling use a frozen bowl... fluffs up the filling even better...;) learned that from my eclair experiments... :D
 
Apparently one needs to only keep breathing to qualify for a bonus. Why not just make it a salary and drop the facade? If a bonus is meant to be incentive, you'd think driving a company to insolvency should merit a disincentive in the form of a lost bonus. Only in the surreal world of corporate America can losers win big.
 
Every hour they worked the unionized employees paid $3 an hour into their pension funds - even as they took pay cuts. Now that the company is winding up what is to become of the pension payments that the workers made all these years? Well, the company already spent most of their pensions and what was left over the executives paid to themselves as bonuses. That leaves the tax payers insuring the pension.

You don't have to be smart to make lots of money - just heartless and protected by the law when you steal.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
The elites dream about being able to get rid of unions so they can go back to treating people the way they did before there were unions.
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And they have an army of useful idiots to help them along.
 
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