But don't worry, they are coming back: the new Hostess sale will put everyone's favorite processed guilty pleasure back on store shelves by summer. Those bakery jobs, well, yeah, they're not coming back.
Beleaguered but beloved snack-cake brand Twinkies may have found a solution to its bankruptcy problems that involves joining forces with owner of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer — and, yes, the Twinkie hysteria has returned, this time for good.
Hope exists and prayer works. Hostess is going through the bankruptcy motions, and one of the rumured parties interested in saving our precious Twinkies is the big blue retail box store Wal-Mart.
CNBC and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that the bankruptcy judge has cleared Hostess for liquidation. But what of our little yellow friend?
Wrap your hope in cellophane and box it away for another year, because Hostess says its last ditch effort to make amends with its bakers' union "was unsuccessful."
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We may have gorged down on high fructose corn syrup-enhanced baking treats for nothing. CNBC is reporting that Hostess and the Bakers Union have agreed to mediation and that (for now) a Twinkies shutdown has been avoided.
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Hostess, the maker of Wonder Bread and the world-famous Twinkies snack cakes, is planning to liquidate the entire company—and layoff 18,500 workers—after failing to reach a deal with its striking union.
Sad news, factory-made baked-good lovers: Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, is filing for bankruptcy -- but it isn't so much because Americans don't find Twinkies delicious anymore.
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