Good Bye to Hostess

A special Top 5 in memory of Hostess, the company who brought us Twinkies, Cupcakes, Fruit Pies, Zingers, Chocodiles and Crumb Cakes.

Hostess in Pop Culture

1. Ghostbusters – Egon uses a Twinkie to represent the normal psychokinetic activity in New York.  On that particular day, that Twinkie would be “twenty-five feet long weighing approximately 600 pounds.”
2. Comic Book Ads – Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hostess products not only provided America with a sugary dessert treat, but also helped some of comicdom’s famous heroes fight crime.
3. Family Guy – After Y2K destroyed civilization as we know it, Peter Griffin leads his family on a quest… a Twinkie Factory in Natick.  It is around this factory that Peter builds a new civilization.
4. Zombieland – Tallahassee (played by Woody Harrelson) wants only one thing in this zombie apocalypse… a Twinkie.
5. King of the Hill – Bobby Hill’s favorite dessert… fruit pies.  He even uses them as a further enticement to get his father to go to the Megalomart to look for a part for his truck.

Related articles

• Bye-Bye, Twinkies: Hostess Is Closing (aegisnewsagency.wordpress.com)
• Hostess Closing? What the hell I need my Twinkies! (outsideperception.wordpress.com)
• Bye-Bye, Twinkies: Hostess Is Closing (newser.com)
• As Hostess shuts down, the Twinkie hoarding begins (fox6now.com)
• Hostess Brands Closes (wibw.com)
• Hostess: The supervillains have triumphed (macleans.ca)

Fair Time Again

Big E 2010 (Photo credit: pannenko)

It’s time for the Big E here in New England.

After a corn dog, a sno cone, a chocolate covered Twinkie, a waffle burger (that would be two burgers with cheese and bacon on Belgian Waffles), a giant pretzel, another sno cone, three bottles of water and countless samples, I think I’m all eaten out.

I’m actually a little glad I passed on the fried Samoas and the chocolate covered bacon… this time.