This Year’s (Twinkie) Apocalypse

(I know this is posted way after the fact, but a friend of mind was commenting that it had been a while since I blogged, so time to get the keys moving again)

As it turned out, Hostess and the unions could not agree on anything, and they went under. Who’s fault was it? Some blame the unions, some blame Hostess’s poor management. In the end, it probably was a number of reasons.

Upon hearing the news, a few people at work decided to quickly go to the store and get some. They asked, “Hey Ed, want to go?”

I honestly hadn’t had a hostess products in a while since they were pretty much whipped sugar, corn syrup and shortening. I’ve been trying to eat healthier, and that doesn’t sound like the makings of a healthy diet.

I know I don’t normally eat them but this will be my last chance…

“Sure….”

People overheard us and threw money at us.

“Can you get us Some Twinkies?”..

“Oh, you really are going? Get me a cherry pie, and some ding dongs”

We all laughed, and thought there was no way they would have run out by now… it was too early yet. With that in mind, we all went to the store.

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Still under this delusion, we ask the store clerk if they were asked to pull product. Because there was no way they sold that fast. We were assured that they did sell out that fast. A few people bought them all up.

We went to another store.. Sold out.. And another.. Sold out.

It really started to settle in. Were we really not going to ever taste a Twinkie again? Oh no. Where else would have them??!?!?!

We decided to go to the gas station, and after laughing about how it was insane that the store was cleaned out, we bought out the gas station.

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It was soon enough where they were looking at us funny for buying all of the hostess stuff, and when we told them why, they gasped! They hadn’t heard yet, and said that if they had known, they would have bought some for themselves.

We made it back, divided up the spoils with everyone who chipped in money, and that was that. At that point we looked on eBay and the Hostess treats were already selling for crazy amount of money. We decided that it wasn’t about the money, and took the treats home.

At home, we spaced out the treats that I brought home over the next few weeks. The majority of the sugary treats left us with that feeling of.. I remember why we don’t eat this stuff.

In the end, we all realized that the brands would be sold and Twinkies would be back on the market again. The bottom line is that we wanted to get them while there were still Hostess. While they still were what we remembered. When they come back to the market, will we buy them? Sure, curiosity of how close to the originals they are will get the better of us. After that, probably not.

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