Albert on 19/11/2012 at 17:17
cleared.
Sulphur on 19/11/2012 at 18:07
Being in India, and having voraciously read every Archie comic I could lay my hands on growing up (hundreds), I was always bemused and enthralled by the adverts on every other page. X-Ray glasses, spud guns, itching powder, joy buzzers - here were things that the brat inside me desperately needed to justify his existence, and wrote to Santa almost four years in a row for; instead, I got a Smurfmobile, G.I. Joes, Legos, and underwear. The humanity!
Apart from those, though, there were also these full-page exhortations on the delectable flavours of Slim Jim beef jerkies and Capri Sun and M&Ms, and most intriguingly, comics featuring people eating Hostess Twinkies and Cupcakes and Angel Food Cake. These things seemed more far away and magical than the odd $2 novelty prank toy, as they heralded flavours as-yet untasted, but so unimaginably sweet in my mind that I attained a sugar rush just thinking about them.
I never did get the joy buzzer or the spud gun, but M&Ms and Capri Sun and beef jerky are commonplace now and I've had more than my fill of them. Unfortunately, Hostess Twinkies are the one thing I never got to sample. I guess I'm going to wonder all my life what they tasted like, and why those people in those comic adverts were always so obsessed with them.
SubJeff on 19/11/2012 at 18:46
Snap, Sulphur. Twinkies were in the adverts for loads of comics we got in Africa, Archie being one of them. I remember all those ads too and I too was enthralled by the idea of the Twinkie more than any of the other things. I guess it was because there was so much you couldn't easily get in Africa at the time, like chocolate and crisps/chips. Of course in retrospect this was all a good thing and I'm sure partly helped me only get my single filling when I was 30 (dammnit!!).
I guess that Woody Harrelson character in Zombieland is going to seem sadder or more correct now. Or maybe just outdated.
Renault on 19/11/2012 at 20:11
Bah, Little Debbie's are the poor man's Hostess. But why is everyone focused on Twinkies? Hohos and Ding Dongs are much better. :D
Jason Moyer on 19/11/2012 at 20:12
You people seriously need to just buy some Tastykakes so you can see how terrible every other prepackaged pastry is.
ZylonBane on 19/11/2012 at 20:44
Quote Posted by Albert
All this Twinkies nostalgia; no love for Little Debbie? :(
Uh, Twinkie is a product; Little Debbie is a company. Did you already forget that
you're the person who started this thread? Presumably because Hostess is going out of business, while Little Debbie is not?
The "Fool's Gold" part of the thread title doesn't even make sense. In the context of the Twinkie, this is the only fool's gold":
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http://hunt4freebies.com/coupons/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Little-Debbie-Cloud-Cake.pngPyrian on 19/11/2012 at 22:02
Count me in as another Little Debbie supporter. Hostess' products just aren't that good, and while that's also true of many Little Debbie products, head-to-head I think Little Debbie wins. E.g., Little Debbie Swiss Rolls are better than Ho Ho's, IMO. And Little Debbie Nutty Bars are very nearly best-in-class, despite a whole box costing less than a single king-size candy bar (prices may vary).
Phatose on 19/11/2012 at 23:30
This ain't the end of Twinkies.
The same corporate raiders who gutted Hostess realize there is value in the brand. They're already made under license in Canada, and likely other places as well. They'll loot the company, close the factories, sell licenses and collect royalties while sitting on their useless capitalist vulture asses. You'll still be able to buy Twinkies - well, unless you worked for hostess, in which case you'll be broke and unemployed.
demagogue on 20/11/2012 at 05:39
I like Little Debbie Swiss Rolls. Twinkies are like yellow spongy sweet sugar crack. I never had them very often, and it's not like you felt any better after eating one, but they were apparently meticulously designed to hit exactly the sweet spot they were going for.
I think there might be a bit of a class thing. My mother was always conscious of class, so we wouldn't get Hostess but Little Debbies, if anything. I mean Ho-Hos just are not the name of snack you want in a respectable household. But anyway we always had more cookies & ice cream than snacks like this.
Living here in Thailand, I get withdrawal pangs sometimes... Meals are always rice & whatever, and twice a month maybe a banana. I can get Oreos or some nondescript sesame seed sugar cookie if I take a special trip out to the shop, but it closes like 6pm. And no refrigerator so I can't keep soft drinks really. And every once in a while it drives me crazy.
