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In reply to the discussion: OK, I'm going to say it. My local news was full of fat people crying about Twinkies. [View all]AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)50. Twinkies are going for $200,000 on ebay.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/twinkies-ebay-starting-bid-hostess-bankruptcy_n_2146273.html?flv=1
I literally don't remember the last time I had a Twinkie.
And my feelings are mixed about this whole thing. It sounds like Hostess was a venture capitalist target that made management rich while kicking the workers in the ass. At what point do workers just say enough is enough, when they know full well that the management and venture capitalists will just shut down the business without blinking an eye, because their profits are guaranteed? Should having a job be the determining factor for how much crap you're willing to take?
Workers in this country are just fucked anymore, no matter what they do. I wish we would just drop the pretense already and admit that we are going backward to basically slave labor.
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OK, I'm going to say it. My local news was full of fat people crying about Twinkies. [View all]
proud2BlibKansan
Nov 2012
OP
probably the chocolate most, but i craved the powder and crumb ones a few times also
JI7
Nov 2012
#37
messy but the sugar just melted on your tongue. i didn't care too much for the
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#38
you like frozen sprouted wheat bread; other people like twinkies. it's a class thing.
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#48
Cost-prohibitive access to and education about healthy alternatives is also a class thing.
antigone382
Nov 2012
#79
now. dialectic. status anxiety never sleeps; one must keep ahead of the proles.
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#67
that guy is a food fetishist. i hate food fetishists. i think an interesting book
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#84
I'm guessing they wouldn't bother putting skinny people on TV complaining about it...
cherokeeprogressive
Nov 2012
#6
i like to pull apart the layers (of lard, peanut butter and fake chocolate on a crispy
HiPointDem
Nov 2012
#41
"Twinkies" lend themselves to humor, so the media are out to mock in many ways.
WinkyDink
Nov 2012
#43
I'm starting a bakery to produce blinkies, blink once and they're gone.... they will be the size
2on2u
Nov 2012
#52
I am fat and I never liked Ho Ho or twinkies. I do like Tastey cakes. I eat
southernyankeebelle
Nov 2012
#76