<p>[Hostess</a>, Maker of Twinkies, Files for Bankruptcy - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/hostess-files-for-bankruptcy/]Hostess”>Hostess, Maker of Twinkies, Files for Bankruptcy - The New York Times) Oh say it isnt so!!
Twinkies, Ding Dongs, mini muffins, the creme-filled iced cupcake with the squiggle on the top. Ahh, nostalgia… fare thee well…</p>
<p>OOh, almost forgot wonder bread-- builds strong bodies 12 ways… Remember that ad?</p>
<p>When I was a kid, I got the impression that I was the only person on the planet who didn’t like Twinkies. They were too sweet, the “cake” never seemed fresh, and in general they just didn’t seem like “real food,” even when compared to other desserts. </p>
<p>Good riddance I say. Bah. :D</p>
<p>Boy, I haven’t had any of those in years and years - maybe that’s part of their problem.</p>
<p>I never cared for Twinkies, either, but those cream-filled chocolate cupcakes with the squiggle (loop-de-loop) on top . . . Yummmm. It was a great day when I opened my lunchbag at school and found one of those sitting on top of my sandwich. I tried one (chocolate cupcake) about a year ago, and it wasn’t as good as I remembered. Still, the lunchbox memory happily lives on.</p>
<p>Now, if Little Debbie goes down and takes Swiss Cake Rolls with her, that is a different story. I will unabashedly hoard those white boxes in the pantry.</p>
<p>I’m waiting for this thread to show up directly above or below the “Weight Loss for Dummies” one.</p>
<p>You can freeze them. Maybe you can deep freeze them. Every 5 years or so I have one (never 2 because after about 1/4 of the first one I remember why I never eat them) of those pink, coconut covered things which are no doubt derived from the Australian pastry the lamington. I wonder if I should freeze 10 of them (just in case!). </p>
<p>I believe the greatest challenge moving forward without Hostess baked products will be that there will be no more Twinkie defense!</p>
<p>There are plenty of web sites and cookbooks on how you can recreate things like twinkies, plus there are ‘clones’ of hostess goods made by other companies. If Hostess goes down the tubes, also, the right to the various products will prob be sold off:).</p>
<p>My wife as a recipe for cinabon style cinamon roles that is to die for (and probably die from if you eat too much of it) that is a once a year kind of treat:)</p>
<p>Ironic that Hostess files bankruptcy while the obesity rate keeps going up. (it’s a labor cost/work rule issue, not demand). I thought Twinkies were one of those items that had so many chemicals and preservatives they would survive the nuclear holocast!</p>
<p>Frozen twinkies…the ONLY way to eat em! I had cravings for these when I was pregnant with my second son, along with frozen grapes for some reason. I stick a box in the freezer about once every two years.</p>
<p>So when you eat a Hostess chocolate covered cupcake or a Little Debbie Swiss Roll, do you have a method. Come on, I know some of you do! </p>
<p>With the Swiss Roll I always ate the chocolate coating off first, then add each end off, then unrolled the middle and ate in tiny bites. With the Hostess cupcake, frosting and white squiggle first, then eat around the outside of the cake part so that the last two bites - a little cake with a lot of middle!!! :)</p>
<p>For my last birthday, someone made me a twinkie cake…I LOVED IT. It was made by stacking up (wrapped) twinkies like a wedding cake. It took a LOT of them to do it. I had a goodly supply of twinkies.</p>
<p>I will miss them if they disappear.</p>
<p>As an adult I just down a Swiss Cake Roll in three bites.</p>
<p>As a kid? The cupcake was carefully deconstructed starting with the loop-de-loop. Next, the cupcake was upended and eaten from the bottom saving the frosting for last. Sounds like we ate our Swiss Cake Rolls the same way. lol</p>
<p>colmom…those were my favorites too!!</p>
<p>Twinkies? Ick. Now Ho-hos, I used to trade for those at lunch (my mom didn’t buy any junk food!)</p>
<p>The cupcakes will be missed. The pink coconut cakes were called snowballs I believe. They came in white too decades ago. The snowballs have a clone out in Arizona - I saw them in Basha’s when I visited.</p>
<p>Maybe someone will buy the recipes and trademarks out of the bankruptcy. They are hoping to reorganize.</p>
<p>“You can freeze them. Maybe you can deep freeze them.”</p>
<p>Wait… I thought twinkies were so full of preservatives they could be stored indefinitely, no special storage conditions required. :)</p>
<p>According to the news, the shelf life of twinkies is 26 days. Before ww2, they had a banana cream filling. During the war, bananas were hard to come by and they switched to the current filling.</p>
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Snoballs!!! Someone served them on toothpicks at a tacky party (those were fun-- anyone been to one of those? Dress really tacky, do tacky stuff, serve tacky food, show up early, etc, fun stuff. OK I am dating myself…)</p>
<p>I was the queen of junk food in my youth. I was never a huge fan of Twinkies. I guess it was the spongy texture. Am I dreaming or did they make chocolate Twinkies at one time? </p>
<p>Hostess cupcakes - loved those. They never seemed to go stale.</p>
<p>My primary junk food supplier was Drake’s - yodels, yankee doodles, devil dogs, funny bones. Loved them all.</p>
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<p>I have no idea what this means. Never heard of any of it; you could be speaking a foreign language!</p>
<p>None of that packaged sweet stuff would ever appeal to me. But I’m no saint. Get me near a great thin crust pizza, some bean and sizzling cheese nachos, or a loaded baked potato, and I’m in. </p>
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<p>No, that would be McDonald’s french fries. Didn’t you see the documentary Supersize Me?</p>