Twinkies file for bankruptcy
Hostess’ bankruptcy filing probably won’t mean the death of the Twinkie—rather, a restructuring of the company—but even if it did, it would be a death we should celebrate, writes Mark Bittman in the New York Times.The food columnist admits he ate his fair share of Twinkies as a kid in the ’60s, when no one questioned the “mysteriously moist” treat with its “‘creamy’—not ‘cream,’ of course—filling” and 39 ingredients. Of course, those were also the days when doctors had only recently stopped endorsing cigarettes, and “few people could yet conceive of the government lying to us or allowing food manufacturers to do us any harm.
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