98.7 WFGR Classic Hits » twinkies http://wfgr.com Thu, 23 May 2013 14:54:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Our Long National Nightmare Is Almost Over…TWINKIES ARE BACK!!! http://wfgr.com/our-long-national-nightmare-is-almost-over-twinkies-are-back/ http://wfgr.com/our-long-national-nightmare-is-almost-over-twinkies-are-back/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:04:40 +0000 Craig Russell http://wfgr.com/?p=121741 Well, they WILL be back this summer! The bankrupt Hostess company was sold to two investment firms for 410 million dollars, and those firms are going to revive the iconic snack cake brands sometime this summer! As one who enjoys the treats of his youth and last year, this warms the sugar laden veins that snake through my body!

]]> http://wfgr.com/our-long-national-nightmare-is-almost-over-twinkies-are-back/feed/ 0 new hostess spokesman?/you tube There Is a Petition for Obama to Nationalize Twinkies http://wfgr.com/twinkies-petition/ http://wfgr.com/twinkies-petition/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:45:38 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=166999 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."

]]> http://wfgr.com/twinkies-petition/feed/ 0 Tim Boyle, Getty Images NOOOOOO!!!! Hostess Brands To Shut Down Operations!! http://wfgr.com/noooooo-hostess-brands-to-shut-down-operations/ http://wfgr.com/noooooo-hostess-brands-to-shut-down-operations/#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:21:40 +0000 Craig Russell http://wfgr.com/?p=96288 Even though I'm diabetic and shouldn't really have Cupcakes and Twinkies and Ding Dongs and Apple Pies and.....(geez what am I? Homer Simpson? Mmmmmmm....Twinkies...) I still love em all! So sweet and tasty and now, soon to be much harder to find, in not impossible. The company that makes and sells the iconic snack cake line has filed for bankruptcy, will be closing it's doors and ceasing operations of the Hostess and Wonder bread brands.

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