Get your Twinkies now!

A common urban legend claims that Twinkies have an infinite shelf life or can last unspoiled for a relatively long time of ten, fifty, or one hundred years due to chemicals used in production.[14] This urban legend is false, although Twinkies can last a relatively long time (25 days or more) because they are made without unstabilized dairy products and thus spoil more slowly than most bakery items

Union President Frank Hurt said the company's failure was not the fault of the union but the "result of nearly a decade of financial and operational mismanagement" and that management was trying to make union workers the scapegoats for a plan by Wall Street investors to sell Hostess.

4 corporate buyouts from 1981 to 1995 saddled an otherwise excellent company with a massive debt structure.

But on the way out the corporate vultures want to blame anyone else but themselves.

I've always held the opinion that if your company cannot afford to pay a decent wage to it's employees you should go out of business and make room for one that can.

Sadly Hostess is a victim of the 80's Romney style corporate raider buyout scams. They took an otherwise stellar brand with good infrastructure products and marketing and tanked it.

Now the top guys are gonna make a mint using Bankruptcy rules and piecemeal selling of the brand.

Romney business practices to a T