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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf WalMart bought Hostess brands, would you still buy them?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/hostess-bidders-walmart_n_2295760.htmlSince I don't have my little star I can't make a poll anymore. But that's ok. Point remains should we feed this beast or not?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)so it wouldn't matter who bought them out-I still wouldn't buy any of those.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)I try to stay away from junk like that and my husband is diabetic.
hlthe2b
(102,360 posts)Independent of who owns them.
Freddie
(9,273 posts)I am fortunate and live in Tastykake land, no need to buy inferior junk food
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Is this a trick question?
How would anyone buy Hostess Brands if Walmart has already bought them?
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)that did make me laugh. No wait. It made me think, then laugh
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Someone should just tell Hostess we don't need their shit anymore and let it go. The stuff is nasty and has always been nasty even 40 years ago when I would stuff entire ding dongs in my mouth just because I could.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)some new brand I never heard of has an exact duplicate line of all the hostess/drakes that was never in the store before.
I have worked all year losing weight, exercising and hell no, I won't eat any of these things ever again.
But its comforting to see they will still be around, I do admit, even if I don't eat them
And isn't that really why hostess went out of business. They are a relic of another time, when people smoked in movie theatres and concerts and we ate crap like this
Next time I am in store I will try to look to see what brand it is.
(no its not little debbie's)
hlthe2b
(102,360 posts)I find it easy to avoid these things now that my cravings are managed and further, knowing something is ultimately available, even if I have no intentions now or in the future of eating it.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)back in the 50s. Gross. I most certainly won't now as an adult.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)enough to support them already don't do business with the targets of the boycott.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)I'm sorry for all the union guys that got screwed at Hostess but I never gave them my custom.
Tastycake is literally five blocks from my house.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)I was really getting to like that.
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)so if Walmart took over the Hostess brand
I would buy the Rye bread.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)littlewolf
(3,813 posts)was we had a breadstore that sold all Hostess stuff.
so I was able to stock up some. the last day
it was crazy in there. Felt really sorry for the
2 girls that worked there. Good people, now
the only place to buy bread is the store (3-4.00 per loaf)
or make it. Think I may get a bread machine for Christmas.
madokie
(51,076 posts)justice1
(795 posts)Also they will probably use even cheaper ingredients, like their store brands.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)Walmart, ugh!
JVS
(61,935 posts)If they did that, hell yeah.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Here I thought they last forever, so you put them in the closet until Doomsday.
Anyone need a few boxes, available after Dec. 21.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)diphthong
(21 posts)n/t