CNN : On Friday ( Nov.16,2012
)Twinkie producer Hostess Brands Inc. announced it would be closing down, thus
ending its product line. The response to this snack apocalypse was swift.
Comments bemoaning the loss of this crème-filled sponge cake.
Eulogies appeared in publications across the country.
People began to hoard
Twinkies, leaving store shelves once lined with Twinkies bare. And with the
supply in stores dwindling, some took to eBay to purchase them. (As if there
weren't hundreds of other high-calorie, chemically colored, obese-inducing
snack cakes you could consume.)
There appears to be no end to the mass mourning
for this snack cake so closely associated with our childhoods. It was as if the
loss of Twinkies was somehow going to erase our fondest childhood memories..
READ ON : cnn.com-twinkie
Luckily, I still have 1 - Twinkie in my ref. which i will never eat for the rest of my-life :-)
