MrCuddowls wrote:
Hahahaha telling me my items are bad HHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAhA
Listen buddy don't judge someone's items if your only level 13
This build is Platinum approved, Thats all you need to know
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Twinkies are delicious, decadent snacks that are filled with cream and an outside that is covered glaze. Some people fry it to make it taste even better. >.<
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Only people that don't care about their health eat Twinkies. I eat Twinkies on special occasions - birthdays, Christmas, etc. I don't want them to stop selling Twinkies; I like them.
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Long live the Twinkie!
As Hostess Brands on Friday filed for bankruptcy after failing to win concessions from its striking bakery workers, abruptly cutting loose more than 18,000 employees from the Bay Area and beyond, consumers went into collective mourning over the demise of one of the sweetest, fluffiest, most beguiling culinary icons America has ever known.
The shock to the nation's system was almost palpable. Somehow, a spongecake renowned for being nearly indestructible had been destroyed, an innocent if hydrogenated bystander in a brutal battle between unions and the hedge funds that control the Irving, Texas-based company. In one bite, Hostess was gone, along with the soft
emotional filling of many an American childhood. Suddenly, Twinkies had become a metaphor for a quickly fading past.
"The Twinkie was a popular cult icon, a reference point that was mentioned by Homer Simpson and even spawned Twinkie cookbooks," said Nancy Down, head librarian at the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. "It's pure nostalgia and it reminds us of a happy childhood. And even though I don't think I'd eat one today, it has that sweetness and shape, that perfect sort of handheld thing, that made it such a comfort food for so many people."
Of course, there's always a chance the Twinkie brand will be sold to another company in the bankruptcy, but on Friday, many of the snack's fans
went into a sort of nostalgic frenzy. The Twittersphere quickly filled with sugar-high laments, including Funny or Die, who wrote: "In 20 years, rich potheads will pay top dollar for unopened Twinkies."
Twinkie recipes flooded the Internet. And Hostess products flew off the shelves at outlets like the one in San Leandro, where one woman filled her back seat with boxes of Twinkies so that her kids, up until now prohibited from eating the highly processed snack, could have their fill before the cakes went away forever.
Hollister resident Linda Lampe, visiting her son in Oakland, stopped by to stock up on the Twinkie's soul sister, the MoonPie, because "they're as traditional as grits in the South where I come from," she said. "There's even a song that says "Give me an RC Cola and a MoonPie.' Just to think, this is the end of a tradition."
That tradition started in 1930 when James A. Dewar, a manager for the Continental Baking Co, decided to inject the squishy sponge cake with banana filling -- vanilla would later be used. The Twinkie name was inspired by a billboard for the Twinkle Toe Shoe Company.
It all ended for good Friday morning as trucks made their final deliveries of Twinkies and Hostess Cupcakes,
Ho-Hos and Wonder Bread. Hostess blamed the unions for killing the company and immediately shut down its 565 distribution centers and 570 bakery outlet stores, as well as 33 bakeries, including one in Oakland that employed 145 people.
There was, of course, a darker side to the story than simply the loss of a 150-calorie sugar-dispensing vehicle once dubbed the "cream puff of the proletariat." Thousands of real jobs had vanished, including the truck-driving gig that Fremont resident Andy Kurzadkowski first took 30 years ago with Colombo bread before it became part of Hostess.
"Today's my last day," he said Friday afternoon, still in shock after being called in from vacation to pick up his termination packet. "I was hoping they'd work it out with the bakers. I have a wife and 15-year-old daughter, and this was our sole income. Even if someone else buys parts of the company, I don't know how that will help us, because we'd all have to start over again from scratch."