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I Went To Buy Some Ho Ho's, But They Were Gone.
Free Republic Original Content (Vanity) | 11/18/12 | jdsteel

Posted on 11/18/2012 7:51:43 AM PST by jdsteel

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My small homage to a piece of America now gone.
1 posted on 11/18/2012 7:51:53 AM PST by jdsteel
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It’s Moochelle Obama’s fault. She wants you to eat peas instead.

Somewhere in her forest bunker the great Sasquatch that is Moochelle is eating them all now.


2 posted on 11/18/2012 7:53:43 AM PST by Morgana (Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
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If we were to bet on winners and losers, I think Hostess would have been a better bet than Fisker Motors, GM, or Solyndra. Besides, Congress is full of Twinkies, Ho-Ho’s, Zingers, and Fruit Pies - a Twinkie bailout should have been a no-brainer. What may happen now, a Mexican company will likely buy the brand and start importing back to the US. Maybe they will partner with the pot-drug cartels and satify ‘the munchies’ when they create ‘the munchies’.


3 posted on 11/18/2012 7:56:03 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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All the Ho Hos work for Barry Benghazi now. Check the Sunday morning talk shows. They’ll be the ones with their pockets full of condoms.


4 posted on 11/18/2012 7:56:12 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We need Comprehensive Election Reform, NOW!)
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My great gram lived with me from ages 93 to 96. Several times I accidently left a full box of twinkies out and went on with the day. When I remembered to check they would all be gone. She literally would eat the whole box over several hours...LOL.... Only happened a few times but we still laugh about it. She lived to age 97. Sadly she had a fall and broke both her hips so her last few months were spent in a nursing home. We still would sneak her some twinkies though.


5 posted on 11/18/2012 7:58:45 AM PST by alisasny (If you cant afford 10 bucks per month to save your own daughters ovary then vote OBAMA.)
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“For 10 years after the steel mills closed here in Pittsburgh I kept hearing about how the mills were coming back and so were all of those jobs.”

Yeah, I remember those days too. College buddies of mine lived in and around “the Burgh”. Pittsburgh & surrounding areas slowly emptied out and all the while those remaining clung to rumors that this mill or that was going to reopen. I suspect that they knew it wasn’t true but a pretty lie is a seductive thing.


6 posted on 11/18/2012 7:59:29 AM PST by Tallguy (Hunkered down in Pennsylvania.)
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First they came for the HO HOs and the Twinkies, but I didn't speak out because I was on a low-carb diet...

Then they came for...

7 posted on 11/18/2012 7:59:36 AM PST by newheart (The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
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We also tried to secure some Twinkies and Ho Hos. No luck either. We checked about twenty places, and there wasn’t a single Hostess product left.


8 posted on 11/18/2012 7:59:50 AM PST by Ladysforest
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Wait until the union workers reach the time when the excitement is over and they are home and jobless.


9 posted on 11/18/2012 8:00:07 AM PST by bmwcyle (Women reelected Obama)
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10 posted on 11/18/2012 8:00:30 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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She can’t understand...

Obama’s America doesn’t deserve the Twinkie.

That is from a different time and place.

Obama’s America deserves dirt.


11 posted on 11/18/2012 8:01:41 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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I agree...a very sad event.To the degree that their demise was caused by a shift in eating habits I guess it could have been expected.For example,I used to *love* the cupcakes.Still do,in fact.However,having been read the Riot Act about my weight by several doctors (including a Cardiologist) I haven't bought any in years.If it weren't for these warnings I would have been buying them all along.

But to the degree that their demise was caused by filthy,despicable,pig excrement Maoist union leaders I just want to....well,I won't go on.Don't wanna be banned.

All I have to say to those union leaders and to the workers who stayed out until the end...I hope every one of you *and* all your family members starve to death!

12 posted on 11/18/2012 8:01:59 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)
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To: SERKIT

LOL...Well said!


13 posted on 11/18/2012 8:03:15 AM PST by Cuttnhorse
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The problem was that neither Gus or George at the loading dock could ever load the Ho-Ho’s. Neither could Bob the truck driver. They had to call Morty, the only designated Ho-Ho loader, who might be in a good mood to load Ho-Ho’s or a bad mood. If Morty wasn’t there, then the craftsman (you had to be with the right union and have the right credentials) replacement had to show the union badge he was ok.

To be honest, you could have hired two guys from the ‘hood’ to load Ho-Ho’s for the same price that you were paying Morty, but it’s best not to bring up this topic. The ‘hood’ guys would have been fairly happy...shown up on time....and would have been willing to be drug-tested if you required it. But you couldn’t hire them because they weren’t specially qualified and hooked to the union.

Here’s the final tabulation that you need to make. They will eventually sell the name and recipe for Ho-Ho’s to Little Debbie (my humble guess). The Little Debbie folks....using non-union labor and trucking....will turn millions in profit for 2013...bringing us their version of Ho-Hos’s.

The loser in all this mess? The little guys named Morty who were the private union loader at the dock for Ho-Hos. It’s hard to find another job like that...that payed so well...and you never really appreciated the job or the stupidity that the Unions attached to it.


14 posted on 11/18/2012 8:04:07 AM PST by pepsionice
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Yeah but right now we are building a brand new mill here Pittsburgh.
15 posted on 11/18/2012 8:05:32 AM PST by Plumberman27
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If you get desperate for Twinkies, you can make your own ... I didn’t know that there are ‘canoe’ baking pans so you can get the Twinkie shape, but found the pan online yesterday ... learn something new all the time! :-)

My favorites are Twinkies and when I told my mom they were liquidating, no more Twinkies, she sort of did the ‘uh huh’ number .... suddenly she looked up with sharp attention ... “wait a minute, NO more Ho Ho’s?” I had to tell her that was the sad fact. She’s not a happy camper. I’m sure someone will come up with a Ho Ho’s recipe so you can make your own of those as well as Twinkies .... but they will never be as good as the ‘originals’.


16 posted on 11/18/2012 8:06:50 AM PST by MissMagnolia ("It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains" - Patrick Henry)
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By the time I got to the grocery store the shelves that once held Hostess products were laid bare. All that were left were a few sad looking Sno Balls.
17 posted on 11/18/2012 8:07:29 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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“...I hope every one of you *and* all your family members starve to death!”

What a stupid and immature thing to say.

I hope your wish for their children to “starve to death” is directed at the Bakers Union and not the route drivers.


18 posted on 11/18/2012 8:10:51 AM PST by panaxanax
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That's all bullshit and you know it. And, so you know the teamsters union voted and decided to give in to the concessions and were more than willing to go back to work. It was the bakers union that was the final straw.

What will that one guy in Zombieland do now that they no longer make Ho Ho's?

19 posted on 11/18/2012 8:11:11 AM PST by Plumberman27
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Great story. My grandfather was still eating bacon and eggs every morning at 96. He quit riding a motorcycle at 93.


20 posted on 11/18/2012 8:14:26 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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