https://www.npr.org/2023/09/11/1198741169/smucker-hostess-brands-twinkies

My only question is ... does that include the already existing decades old stock which is ostensibly just fine and still good to go?

Absolutely amazing. A very, very good case could be made that you would be much better off if the stuff never passed your lips once.

Full disclosure, I ate an unknown number of pounds of that stuff in my teenage years, not to mention early 20s.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I had a twinky recently....not bad....but not as good as I remembered from 65 years ago.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Now that was an old pastry

As odd as this may sound now this is really a true American success story.

Before Hostess went broke the first time they had a plant in Tulsa. The workers there went on strike since, according to them, the plant was dirty and dangerous. And the pay was lousy.

Hostess said if the workers didn't come back the company would go broke. When it did the company of course blamed the union.

But the bankruptcy court saw a lot of fault in the management. Most business writers though it was a mixture of both.

Then someone bought what was left of the company. They cleaned things up, bought in modern equipment, and changed the pay scale.

They put the company back on a paying basis. Now they have sold their revamped operation at a serious profit.

It's the American way.