B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 19, 2012

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    bluskies  almost 12 years ago

    Santa should never have eaten that last HoHo..H o !

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    pouncingtiger  almost 12 years ago

    It’s Ealing humour

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    cdward  almost 12 years ago

    Has nothing to do with the unions. That was just an excuse. That company had been mismanaged (by, uh, management) for years. Unions had made lots of concessions already, while management were still getting bonuses. The real problem is, the heads of the company did not adapt to changing market conditions.

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    cj7ole  almost 12 years ago

    Wow! Hostess has been around a lot longer than I thought.

    Interesting that if you are Republican, it is the unions fault, if you are Democrat is is always management’s fault. As in most cases, there is plenty of blame to go both ways.

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    dsom8  almost 12 years ago

    Even after reading the comments I don’t get it. I think that’s what @Alexikakos was getting at.

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    trimguy  almost 12 years ago

    The Unions (supposedly) wouldn’t allow bread to be delivered on the same trucks as the Twinkies & Ho-Ho’s. Yet, poor management was the final nail in the coffin: 300 percent pay raises for management while demanding sacrifices from the Unions. After the company went bankrupt, the corporate bosses STILL demanded their bonuses.

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    twj0729  almost 12 years ago

    Two or three months ago , I had my first twinkie in over thirty years. I took two bites and threw the rest away. It still tasted like crap. How did they manage to stay in business as long as they did?

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    phelpsgates  almost 12 years ago

    I thought at first that the caption at upper right was a jab at unions, but eventually concluded that the joke (such as it was) is that it was actually Santa who sued Hostess for damages because he ate so many he broke through the floor of his sleigh. Does this mean that I can sue ’em for getting overweight? Too late, I guess.

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    Just Me  almost 12 years ago

    In New England, Shaws supermarkets carried Tasty Kake products and I got addicted to the chocolate lover’s cupcake. They stopped carrying it when Tasty Kake changed their shipping methods and would only deliver them frozen. Evidently, shipping them fresh was too costly. Shaws stopped carrying them for over a year. I just noticed they are back on the shelves, but I don’t know if they are fresh or frozen

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    Droptma Styx  almost 12 years ago

    Say you drive a car with bad tires. You know the tires are bad, but you ignore the problem because of the expense of replacing the tires. Then you hit a speedbump too hard and blow out all four bad tires. So you blame the speedbump and junk the car. Then convince your neighbors to petition the county to remove all the speedbumps, because they’re tire-killers.

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    Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    Panic. We have an Urgent Priority here: Nationalize Twinkies. Replace all the management and staff with traffic controllers. Put the recipes in Fort Knox. Put Celebrities that are addicted to Twinkies on the Board of Directors. And, get a gag order for the First Lady’s ‘health talk’. That is All…

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    Kathy M T M Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    they sell tastykake here in NY also but I prefer Lil Debbies.

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    pierreandnicole  almost 12 years ago

    Agreed.

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    pawpawbear  almost 12 years ago

    Damn, I thought they got hostile at Dunesbury. You guys need to LIGHTENUP.

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    batterd_citizen  almost 12 years ago

    it was management that did this company in…get your facts str8.

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