Hostess

am, but yeah.

Our neighbor across the street always has like hostess snacks in the house, like somewhere in the basement.

So when we go over there, Eric will always come out and I'll have like a handful of hostess.

He had a ho-ho and I swear it was that fucking big.

Yeah.

Every kid who had cold lunch had a little Hostess cake, um, that, that they brought to, to school with them.

And, and, um, the quantity versus quality thing, right? Uh, the, I think the best example, and this is probably gonna make some people mad, my apologies.

The best example of quantity versus quality are campers.

The little pasteboard berries burst, the wire twisted, the gold lace melted, and the shriveled paper corollas, fluttering like black butterflies at the back of the stove, at last flew up the chimney.

When they left Hostess at the month of March, Madame Bovary was pregnant.

End of part one, chapter nine.

Hanging out at the pool is great.

Including

Hostess and Little Debbie's.

I was going to say, do we have

to differentiate? Like one side of the bracket is Hostess and we get to the champ and then one is Little Debbie's and what is the ultimate?

Well, I mean, we have to mix them, obviously.

They have to go against each other.

You wouldn't have Hostess on Hostess.

You know, you have to.

So today, I mean, people like in the summertime were – sending me pictures of Little Debbie, and there's all this Little Debbie, and then they had one thing, Twinkie.

You could buy an individual Twinkie from Hostess, and that's just awful.

But I just was at Martin's, count on us, to get some ice cream, to get some donuts for Folgers today, and also to get some ice cream novelties for Sunday.

And I had to go around to the Frozen Isle, and in order to get there, I had to go past the little island controlled by Little Debbie.

out.

She pushed out.

So you can't even find it anywhere? You can't find Hostess like you can find Little Debbie.

Little Debbie pushed them out.

You know who they are.

I've got a man who, you know, when he's on a road trip, he likes to sleep in Hostess Cakes trucks.

Give it up for Mark Ciaffardini.

Hi,

We're talking about that icon of cuisine, that staple of youth diets, the dessert that passes as a casual snack, the Twinkie.

Turns out things haven't been so golden for Twinkies and parent company Hostess since they were acquired by Smucker's only three years ago.

If you look at the sales, it's crisis mode in Twinkie land.

We're gonna try to bring this brand back to what it once was.

Twinkies is maybe the ultimate legacy brand, so we got a lot of work to do, and you'll see that we always get hungry on our food-themed episodes.

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I could use a sugar spike, but what Hostess needs is a sales spike, so take us into it, Chino.

Yeah, so today we're talking about a very sweet deal that turned sour.