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<\/p>\nMy dad had a lot in common with TV\u2019s Archie Bunker. Oh, he wasn\u2019t a bigot like Arch, but he did love his Hostess Twinkies and would voice his displeasure to mom\u00a0if there weren\u2019t any in the lunch box when the old man was working out of town. Archie called Twinkies \u201cThe white man\u2019s soul food.\u201d \u00a0I don\u2019t know if dad would go that far..or if he even had a clue about what soul food is but he, like millions of Americans loved those little\u00a0 blonde cake logs stuffed with a sweet white vanilla concoction and was never concerned about terms like \u201cshelf life\u201d or \u201cjunk food.\u201d \u00a0I mention this only because Hostess, the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, is going out of business, closing plants, laying off its 18,500 workers and putting its brands up for sale.<\/p>\n
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Hostess says a nationwide strike by the baker\u2019s union has crippled its ability to make and deliver its products that include cream-filled cupcakes, Snoballs, \u00a0Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s, \u00a0Dolly Madison and many other pies and pastries found in thousands of grocery and convenience stores around the country.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m fighting the urge to say \u201ciconic\u201d but in this case the term really fits this company that\u2019s been around for generations and survived ever increasing criticism by the anti-processed foods crowd who point to Hostess as one of the big reasons our kids are fat and unhealthy. They\u2019ve succeeded in turning school lunches into vegetable gardens that wind up in the garbage apparently believing that it\u2019s better for children to go hungry than let them have food they like..including a Twinkie now and then. The closing is also going to shorten the act of South Dakota\u2019s longtime comedians, Williams and Ree who even wrote a song about their favorite pastries.[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zSbccKL1de4[\/youtube]Sadly, Wonder Bread which has been around since the twenties and helps build strong bodies 8\u2026then 12 ways..will also crumble with the Hostess closure.My first exposure to Wonder Bread was through television, of course. The commercial which showed how Wonder was made from batter, not dough, which meant no holes. It also was packed with nutritious ingredients that would make me grow up strong and healthy. Howdy Doody and Clarabelle endorsed it..and they wouldn\u2019t lie to kids right?[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hhD_13mbJQY[\/youtube]I know there are two sides to every story and I suppose the baker\u2019s union has its reasons for the work stoppage but now they\u2019re totally out of a job. How is that good?\u00a0 I hope congress is better at sorting out compromises. But what do I know? I suppose I\u2019m just ticked off that now I\u2019ll never get a chance to try one of those deep friend Twinkies at the fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My dad had a lot in common with TV\u2019s Archie Bunker. Oh, he wasn\u2019t a bigot like Arch, but he did love his Hostess Twinkies and would voice his displeasure to mom\u00a0if there weren\u2019t any in the lunch box when the old man was working out of town. Archie called Twinkies \u201cThe white man\u2019s soul…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lund-at-large","category-60","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11693,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/11693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}