<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://18/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Speaking as a former "junk food junkie" who contracted type 2 diabetes because of it, I for one, am glad to see them die. This company is not dying because of the union or foreign competition. They are dying because people like me are waking up to the reality that these companies are peddling poison. Consequently, their revenues have been slowly dropping over the past few years. People are just not eating as much junk food as they used to. And, that's a good thing.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 16, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Surely some of us are old enough to remember our Moms packing Twinkies in our school lunch.</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "></p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Now that the Hostess Company is about to die because the bakers union thought the company was bluffing when it said it would close its doors without concessions, folks are reacting to the presumed death of Twinkies, and the also iconic cupcakes.</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "></p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">This feature by AP food editor J.M. Hirsch is a good read:</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "></p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><span style="font-weight: 600; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/cbphcq6">http://tinyurl.com/cbphcq6</a></span></div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-weight: 600; "></p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">Sean</div>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>