Is this the end of Twinkies?

Is this the end of Twinkies?

  Twinkies came on the scene in 1930, invented by James Alexander Dewar, an employee at a company similar to Hostess (the company who now manufactures Twinkies), when he noticed that the machines used to inject cakes with strawberry filling were not being put to use, so he proposed that the company make a cake filled with banana cream. Thus, the Twinkie was born. During the WWII, bananas were not as readily available as they had previously been, so the company, switched to vanilla cream. The recipe has not changed since, and vanilla cream filled Twinkies are now eaten by people around the world.

  The name Twinkie is also the brain child of Dewar. He passed by a billboard for Twinkle Toe Shoes, a pastel yellow colored kitten heel, close to the color of banana cream, and named the Twinkie after the shoe, shortening the name.

  Fast forward seventy years, and Hostess has filed for bankruptcy. But it gets worse. The day before Thanksgiving, Hostess laid off 15,000 of its 18,500 workers across the country. The other 3,500 workers, presumably factory and upper-level management will be kept on for a few more months to help the liquidation process, though the exact amount of time is unknown, and then they will be let go as well.

  On the other hand, other snack cake companies like Little Debbie and Drake’s Cakes are looking to expand their companies, and are thinking about some of the Hostess plants. During this liquidation process, projected to happen quickly, Hostess is trying to sell its brands, such as Wonder bread.

  The probability of Hostess Twinkies, Fruit Pies, and Donettes becoming completely obsolete are slim, but one thing is for sure, Hostess is now a thing of the past.