The end of Wonder Bread and Twinkies??

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Wonder Bread is a good bread but so expensive  we buy the store brands.  Twinkies are good too but other brans lare cheaper and taste as good or so my grandkids say.   Looks like retirement obligations and medical are the biggest problems with them and having the union.
 
I grew up with Wonder Bread (actually we were a Silvercup family) and Hostess Sno-Balls, Twinkies, Ding Dongs, etc. But I haven't had any of those in years and years, like maybe 30 years or more.

A while back we were in the grocery store and saw this huge obese woman in a powered shopping cart and she got out of the cart and put two boxes of Ding Dongs in her basket and drove off. I thought, I haven't had those in years. So I grabbed a box and looked at the nutritional value box on the box.
Egads! Those things are instant heart attack!

Hostess - Ding Dong

Servings: 1

Calories 180 Sodium 115 mg
Total Fat 9 g Potassium 0 mg
Saturated 7 g Total Carbs 23 g
Polyunsaturated 0 g Dietary Fiber 1 g
Monounsaturated 0 g Sugars 18 g
Trans 0 g Protein 1 g
Cholesterol 5 mg
Vitamin A 0% Calcium 1%
Vitamin C 0% Iron 4%

You know how small each cake is? Tiny. The average person would probably eat three or four of them. That's probably the equivalent of a Big Mac at McDonalds!

And are Twinkies any better?
See the link....

Maybe if Hostess went out of business some people would eat healthier?

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Wonder bread and it's ilk is part of the reason this country is so over weight and unhealthy.  There is very little nutrition in Wonder Bread.  For decades I bought whole wheat or 12 grain bread, now I just make my own.  No chemicals, no preservatives and I know exactly what's in my bread.

 

If they go under I feel bad for the employees, but the health of the country may go up a tick, but odds are people will just move on to the next over processed junk food.
 
Allen you are right on being bad.  We have a Jackson baking company here (Little Debbie) and even driving by it causes blood sugar to go up and heart hurt.  People would just go to then for the fix. 
 
When the Atkins diet became popular, suddenly everyone believed carbohydrates are evil. Sales of baked goods dropped. Interstate Bakeries (now calling themselves Hostess Brands) has high fixed costs (mostly labor), and you can see the difference in pricing on grocery store shelves. As carbs slowly regained popularity, then the recession hit and consumers were flocking to cheaper brands. The company has also been slow to introduce healthier products, which would at least attract customers less price-sensitive.

So they've been hit with a number of punches, bad timing, bad luck, poor management and stuck with high costs.
 
I used to work for them in Maine in the office and went thru the first bankruptcy. The operation has alot of wasted spending. True the Atkins diet did not help matters but what they did was to outsource to a company called Accenture to pay the bills. They used to have accounts payable in house and did away with that. I had to deal with people that could barely speak English and did not understand anything or how things were paid. Going to Accenture cost them big bucks more so than doing it in house.
True that the union there thinks that the company has deep pockets. People on the floor average about $20 an hour to start. In the office it wasn't union so we were paid less. When I was there , there was talk of Sara Lee buying them, that didn't happen , then George Weston was thinking of buying it but the debt load is too much. This company is now underwater by $850 million. The costs keep rising for flour, sugar, utilities, gas, and the have raised prices so sky high on bread that who would pay $4 a loaf for Nissen Canadian bread or even for WonderBread...they come off the same lines.
Little Debbie is a bitch for them and yet over the years IBC had this mentality that they had a "superior product" with the Hostess line and that people will pay the premium for it. Not any more. So I doubt very highly that Bimbo aka Beembo will buy them. They may buy the brands that Hostess/ IBC has but not the buildings, machinery, or even the employees. Remember thatHostess/ IBC has 19,000 employees .
 
I can't see the products disappearing altogether, they're too well known. I only like Wonderbread for peanut butter sandwiches, they're just not the same on other bread for me. They do have their new Wonder Invisibles bread which is a whole wheat bread but looks like whitebread, it's not bad actually and if I was still a fussy kid eater I'd eat it and probably wouldn't know. We had WonderBread home delivery growing up.. do they still do that anywhere?
And yeah every once in a while I'll buy a box of twinkies or cupcakes. Never like the sno-balls or fruit pies very much.
 
I haven't bought or eaten either in YEARS!!!!!!

"The Original White Bread & Junky Cakes"!!!!!!

Little "wonder" (PUN intended!) that w/ the way Americans have adopted "healthier eating" that these are on the "endangered species food list"...!

-- Dave
 
I heard about this on NPR today. It is so funny the way Hostess is trying to place the blame on their own workforce. Too many costly entitlements paid to the workers,etc. You know, the same old song and dance from corporate America these days. The honest truth is, this is a story about a company that has not kept their own products up to date with the times. Anyone who cares even slightly about their own basic health does not eat Twinkies, overpriced white bread, or any of the other crap this company continues to produce. End of story.


 
White Bread Vs Whole Wheat!

I grew up eating old whole wheat/ multi grain bread because it was"Good for you",,Well ...if I never see another piece of old straw bread as I call it, it will be too soon!!I still maintain ,if it tastes good, its bound to be bad for you!
 
Little Debbie is no comparison to Hostess snacks. But neither are Hostess snacks compared to how they used to taste. Even when I was still into desserts I quit buying Hostess. And I used to LOVE twinkies.

Here in Texas we had a premier bakery, Mrs. Baird's. Their products were truly excellent. But a few years back they were bought by Bimbo and of course the quality went down to JBA, just barely adequate, where all corporations today aim.

Just in the last year the quality of Mrs. Baird's brown N serve rolls (I buy for holiday dinners) dropped a MAJOR notch to where they're no better than house brand. In fact, I bought the house brand, tried them and was disappointed so I made another special trip to the store for Mrs. Bairds. But when I served them, they were no better. Indistinguishable, at almost twice the price.
 
Yes Mrs. Bairds bread was good haven't had it in a long time.  We used to buy it when we lived in Dallaw and houston.  When in New Orleans we always bought Sunbeam they had the big factory right off I-10 close to downtown.  The smell in the morning commute was fantastic. 

 

 
 
sad

It is sad that the quality of commercial baked goods is SOO bad.

Years ago I bought an expensive bread machine (a Zojirushi). It gets at least one use per week for me, lasts for years, and a loaf of bread costs <$.75 AND it is of the quality equivalent of a $3-$5 loaf.

So I figure that in 1 year I pay for the cost of the machine and by end of year 3 I've avoided making a lot of purchases :)

The quality of commercial baked goods makes me do most of my own baking; wifey is gluten and dairy and egg free, and I'm dairy free, so it makes sense anyway. (Dairy is in EVERYTHING because it is cheap protein).

As for Hostess , I grew up in the NYC area and preferred Tasty Cake :)
 
In the time we lived in New Orleans (really Metairie) we would buy Schwegmann bread (made at Sunbeam) and would get 6 loaves of bread for a $1.00 this was in the 70's and 80's  Would buy the fresh French bread backed in the store for $0.30 then up to $0.50.

 

Was good bread and great french bread.

 

 
 

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