twinkies

Hostess usually comes out with a few varieties of Twinkies every year based on various themes, seasons, holidays and movie tie-ins. We are currently treated to these White Fudge Marshmallow Twinkies in honor of the new Ghostbusters film. Let's check them out!

I sure hope you weren't one of the idiots who spent $500 for a box of Twinkies on eBay after they were discontinued.  Because they're already back.

The long national nightmare is over. Twinkies are coming back!

In November, the nation went into panic mood when word spread that Hostess was about to go giant, bloated-with-sugar belly up.

When the US auto industry was in jeopardy four years ago President Obama stepped in with a bailout package. Now it's the American junk food industry that's in peril, with Hostess Brands closing up shop and heading for liquidation, and some want Obama to take an even more drastic step. Daniel B. of Kansas City has started a petition for the president to "Nationalize the Twinkie industry."

On Friday, Hostess announced they were officially shutting down, and immediately stopped producing Twinkies.

Hostess is shutting down the ovens in their bakeries, and their trucks will no longer deliver the tasty treat that many of us grew up thinking would survive even a nuclear bomb.  After hearing the news, I learned more about Twinkies than I ever knew, I bet some of these facts will be new to you too.