Twinkies are back!

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Twinkies are back! Minus 15,000 union workers who were bankrupting the company. It would be nice if unions learned a lesson from this but… they won’t.

This post was last modified on July 21, 2021

J.P. Travis: Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1976 graduate of University of Michigan, father, grandfather, husband, founder and CEO of Travelyn Publishing (http://www.travelynpublishing.com/), and passionate anti-government believer in individual liberty.

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    • They look good! Question is, will the new non-union employees face a learning curve when they restart the Twinkie assembly line? Will the first week of Twinkies taste like crap?

        • Like you can actually taste greed..only in your mind little guy, only in your mind...

      • Honestly, if Union members could make a Twinkie without screwing it up, I am sure the new guys will do okay....I bet Crowley could even get a job there....but first he would have to unstick himself from his couch, take a shower, put on clothes, find someone to drive him to the plant, fill out an application and pass an interview....I say he fails just getting off the couch....

          • We know you couldn't get a job, or you would spend less time here. By the way when are you and your girlfriend gonna be on Jerry Springer for da baby's daddy DNA test?

          • Why not help corporate greed poison us, you already helped them steal our gold!!!!!!!!!!

  • They're just poison made by a greedy corporation anyway. And now they're utilizing slave wages to the people who are forced to make them for Corporate Greed's plan to poison the masses.

    • And here you go again: "I'm a libertarian! ...But that corporation should be forced to pay its employees more."

      • I thought only the socialist/democraps want to raise wages? That means Creepy is now a democrap.

        • I don't want to raise wages, I just want to be paid the same amount in gold rather then worthless paper.

          • You odious little twit, make me come back out of the closet and dust myself off. wtf is your problem, now you want a Visa Gold EBT card?

            Sorry, forgot you were illiterate, odious means yucky.

    • Come on crawley, admit it. You will be first in line to re-supply your cave with the things. Buy a truck load so that greedy coporation can continue to pay thousands of people something you know nothing about, a wage.

      • Yea, poison myself so that greedy corporations can continue to abolish fair wage laws?

        • What would you know about a fair wage? Real wages have been going down since the mid 1980's, mainly thanks to gooberment regulations. Especially the EPA regulations.

          I'll keep it simple for the simple minded, that's you crawley. In 1985 I made a dollar per week and a Twinkie cost one penny. Today I make two dollars per week so a Twinkie should cost two cents but it costs six cents instead. Why? Because OSHA, the EPA, local regulations, all these gooberment agencies have rules they want followed, that cost money, which added two cents to the cost to make a Twinkie. The other two cent rise in cost came from the unions. More wages, more benefits, hire more do nothing people, force the company to do things that make no sense, all these things cost money and that cost gets passed to the consumer. So, we have to pay six cents for a Twinkie that should cost two cents.

          Corporate greed has nothing to do with it boy, gooberment and union stupidity are the blame.

    • Yes and in the vestiges of our once free society, you are still at liberty to not eat them. That way you can keep jousting at your stupid windmills (not sure if you get the reference).

  • Little Debbie's should send a fruit basket to the Hostess union president. I would include a HUGE thank you card signed by all my employees (THANK YOU FOR ELIMINATING OUR COMPETITION!!)

  • Cool, now I can go forward with my plans for deep fried twinkies this summer. As for the now unemployed union goons who refused to deal with the management, how's that excrement sandwich taste?

    • Deep fried Twinkies? That sounds as nasty as a deep fried pickle. My sister-in-law, who is built like a 5 ft. tall Twiggy and eats like a lumberjack, tried one at the state fair last year. I couldn't watch her eat it and headed for the beer pavilion instead. (snicker)

      • Speaking of, ever had a deep fried Snickers® Bar? No joke. Better yet, ever had deep fried Mint ChocolateChip ice cream?

  • Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.

    Unions are just money laundering machines for the democrat party.

  • Best comment on the original story....

    "You mean these can be made without paying unskilled union workers $30.00 per hour?

    Shocking...................."

  • Unions are Glorified Mafia . They are not for the people but tell them when to strike and collect Dues each week thru payroll and you are force to JOIN or else. Back in the 20's and 30's they might have been needed but now ? And if you don't strike you do not get paid for the week? So Unions and Big Gov is what killing US.

    • Very true- unions and big government are what's killing us and the two are becoming increasingly indistinguishable... both serve a similar parasitic function and both are fueled by and prey on a cultural attitude of entitlement.