Since Hostess declared bankruptcy last November, it has been the concern of dessert consumers everywhere that, as Tallahassee from Zombieland would say, “life’s little Twinkie gauge is going to go…empty.”
When the company went out of business after battling bankruptcy and strikes for the past eight years, many Twinkie, Hoho, and Sno ball fans rushed to stores to buy up the last of these delicious snack cakes.
It was beginning to look like America would never again experience the wonder that is Hostess.
But just as it is the darkest before the dawn, Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global bought the rights to manufacture Twinkies in hopes of placing the yellow, spongy snacks back on shelves. They not only bought the rights to Twinkies, but to HoHos and Ding Dongs as well.
In an interview with Washington Times, Metropoulos claimed that they would have “America’s favorite snacks back on shelves” just in time for the summer.
“It’s good they’re coming back,” commented Bob Jones senior Nick Akins, “a lot of people like those, and were upset when they went out of business.”
Everyone can sleep soundly knowing that the producers of Zombieland’s prediction of the extinction of the Twinkie has been postponed for now.