I decided to check out the Twinkies cones that Hostess now has on shelves. Here's the problem, though. The more I looked at the box, the more I couldn't find the words ice cream anywhere on there. If it's not ice cream, then what is it?
With fall in the air, familiar products are starting to come equipped with an autumn variety. The common is anything pumpkin spice-flavored, but other flavors will present themselves as well. Hostess decided to release a pumpkin spice and maple glaze flavored donettes. Let's try them!
The snowball effect is when something starts out small, for instance, a lie, but eventually grows more and more until you can't stop it. All of which could've been prevented if you hadn't started the lie in the first place. My Hostess Snoball Effect is nothing like that. It's more about thinking you like something when you really don't, but forgetting you don't until you try it again, reminding yo
A few months ago Hostess products hit the store shelves with Twinkies, Cup Cakes, Ho Hos, Fruit Pies and many other of their classic favorite snack cakes. One that was missing is my favorite, the Ding Dong. The chocolate coated devil's food cake with cream on the inside. You can imaging my excitement when I saw them back on the shelf the other day.
Unfortunately, these weren't the Ding Dongs I was
People are still wondering what's going to happen to Hostess and, more importantly to most, the fate of all of the snack cakes they produce. Well, there's good news. It looks like fellow bread and snack maker, Bimbo, is interested in picking up where Hostess is leaving off.
Since the news of Hostess going bankrupt is shattering snack fiends around the country, it brought up this thought. Hostess is going bankrupt, but the products probably won't go anywhere since the brands are so strong. More than likely, they'll auction them off to another company. But who will step up to buy them?
It has long been said that a Twinkie would survive a nuclear war. But Hostess, the company that makes the treats, is not so immortal.
In fact, Hostess is expected to file for bankruptcy this week, citing over $800 million in debt. While there is a good chance Hostess will be able to reorganize or be bought out by another company — ensuring Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Hos will remain in stores — it