Hostess Twinkies

Twinkies May be Back as Early as This Summer

The report of the demise of that golden sponge cake with the creamy filling may have been premature. Twinkies and their Hostess snack brethren could be back by as soon as this summer. Two private equity firms have bought the iconic brands for $410 million, CNN reports. There were no other qualifie ... More >>

PBR To Buy Twinkies?

Bloomberg news is reporting that C. Dean Metropoulos & Co., the company that also owns Pabst Blue Ribbon, is actively engaged in trying to buy the cakes business of bankrupt Hostess. Which means, if you look at it another way, that PBR will own Twinkies. From the Bloomberg story: "We continue to be ... More >>

Wonder Bread Is Saved, Twinkies Likely to Follow

We all knew, deep down, that Twinkies were indestructible and Wonder Bread was immortal. Following Hostess Brands' recent bankruptcy, a Georgia-based company has stepped in and purchased several of Hostess' best-known brands, along with 28 bakeries and other locations, NBC News reports. Flowers F ... More >>

Is the Maya Doomsday Theory Offensive?

This card was meant to be funny. But is it offensive to blame today's turmoil on the Maya people? As your Facebook feed might have reminded you, the 2012 doomsday countdown is upon us. And while most people consider the idea of the world actually ending on December 21 to be nothing more than a mark ... More >>

Downtown L.A.'s Newest Restaurant: Towne Opens in July with Housemade Twinkies

Restaurateur Armen Shirvanian knew from a young age -- spent dining at Bob's Big Boy -- that he wanted to be in the food industry. "The hustle and bustle in the restaurant on a Saturday afternoon made me instantly excited about being there. I also love their Strawberry Pie," said Shirvanian. After l ... More >>

Q & A With Joel Stein: The "Intolerable Foodie" on Organics, Foodie Culture Man Food

Readers of Joel Stein's column in Time Magazine may remember when Stein hobnobbed with the super-rich over bottles of wine valued more than $5,000 each. The night he sampled dishes in the Alinea kitchen inspired by Escoffier's 1903 cookbook. Or the time he gobbled up KFC's Double Down sandwich, made ... More >>

MicroWhat: Or, 4 Food Items to Put in Your Microwave (Maybe)

Does your inner child ever wonder what happens when you put a pack of gummy bears in the microwave for a minute and half? How about an Oreo or a handful of Whoppers? That kind of morbid curiosity is the basis of one of our new favorite Tumblrs, MicroWhat, whose simple conceit is taking any item -- m ... More >>

Deep Fried Fluffernutter at Black Market: Sandwich of the Week

Deep-frying improbable edibles is hardly new. County fair concessions maven Chicken Charlie has fried up Oreos, Twinkies, frog legs, White Castle burgers, SPAM, zucchini, Pop Tarts, brownies, ribs and Kool-Aid balls -- and that's only the beginning The combo of crisp batter and gooey center speaks ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/9-1/13

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You probably should get a "garlic knot," which here is a hollow sphere of pizza dough, tied at the top with string and stuffed with a handful of baked garlic cloves -- it's the new-new thing, the f ... More >>

Maker of Twinkies to File for Chapter 11: More Food News for Hoarders

​If you've been stockpiling Twinkies since childhood, it's time to load up even more. And no, not because they're having a Hoarders casting call. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Hostess Brands Inc., the maker of Twinkies (and Wonder Bread, if you fetishize that too) is preparing to ... More >>

Study Names 10 Worst Children's Cereals

Flickr/Dalboz17Apple Jacks ranked as the 8th worst kids cereal​According to a new study by the Environmental Working Group, some children's cereals contain more sugar than Twinkies and Chips Ahoy! cookies. The worst offender, Kellogg's Honey Smacks, is nearly a whopping 56% sugar by weight. Fo ... More >>

Watch Out, Odd Future, Pitchfork Protestors Are Waiting For You

Marguerite de BourgoingRight in the FACE​Odd Future's accustomed to having bottles thrown at them (watch the video after the jump) and Chris Brown taking Twitter beef to the street. But that's all in the name of anger teenage angst too much 18-year-old boy testosterone fun! When they arrive fo ... More >>

Fried Kool-Aid, Fried Brownies, FryBQ Ribs: A Sneak Peek at Chicken Charlie's Newest Fried Fair Fare

Courtesy of Chicken CharlieFried fair fare trio: Totally Fried Brownies, FryBQ ribs and Totally Fried Kool-Aid​ His life's work reads like a chapter in The Fattening of America. Every year, Chicken Charlie a.k.a. Charlie Boghosian, the fried food maestro of Southern California's county fair c ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Kaoru Abe, Acid King, Pontiak

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #111 for Saturday, April 23. Fanatics! It is Friday, early afternoon and I am just now getting a chance to write these brief notes up for you. One of these days I'm going to get some sleep. Just back from Ann Arbor, Michigan where we had a major blast at the Stoo ... More >>

"Killer Paper": Food Packaging That Kills Bacteria, Not You

Flickr/FidelioWith Killer Paper these peanuts will stay good well into October, unlike the Mets​ The world is sorely lacking in mad scientists. If there were more brilliant but twisted lunatics in white lab coats, we'd all be flying around on jet packs chatting on our brain-implanted iPhones ... More >>

October Unprocessed: Q & A With Food Blogger Andrew Wilder, Unprocessed Food Man

Want to eat healthier, feel better and live longer? A million suggestions are out there on how to do just that, but a good place to start might be processed foods. As in, not eating them. Doritos, M&M's, Oscar Mayer wieners, McDonald's french fries -- could you do away with them all? Okay, how about ... More >>

God Bless America: Where You Can Have Your Snickers Bar On a Stick AND Deep Fried!

Want Fries With That? Meet The Krispy Kreme Doughnut Burger

A Hamburger TodayKrispy Kreme Doughnut Burger​ The Orange County Fair ended last weekend, but throngs of fried food aficionados turned up to get their fair (sorry) share of deep fried Oreos, Snickers, Twinkies, and even fried cheese on a stick. While that might sound like groundbreaking fried ... More >>

Fried Food Gone Too Far: Denny's Mozzarella Stick "Melt"

Denny'sDenny's New Fried Cheese Melt​ From fried Twinkies to chicken fried bacon to beer-battered cheesecake, we're no stranger to belt-busting fried foods. And while we don't condone the consumption of greasy foods with quadruple digit calorie and a weeks' worth of fat gram counts, we just co ... More >>

Eating the FD&C Rainbow at the Hostess/Wonder Outlet

Ben CalderwoodCircus of values​ When I would plead for Wonder bread instead of wheat as a child, my mother would tell me, as if such a warning would scare me away from the shelf, that it turns to paste in your stomach. She bought a loaf once and demonstrated how each preternaturally moist, ala ... More >>

Sugary (and Corn Syrupy) Blast From the Past: A Look Back at Our Nation's Favorite Desserts

From banana splits and Eskimo pie to cake kits, ambrosia, and bacon-laced cupcakes, American society has always craved something to satisfy its ever-present sweet tooth. But what defines our taste in desserts? Cleverly packaged free "recipe books" published by companies like Pillsbury and Del Monte, ... More >>

Twinkie Cars, Sausage Men, and Hoagie Blimps: Kitchen (Football Snack) Stadium

The Big Game appoacheth. With Super Bowl XLIV right around the corner, millions of Americans will break out potato chips, Chex mex, Hot Dogs, and hamburgers and, of course, build a giant junk food football stadium. Okay, this may not be standard operating procedure for most gridiron fanatics gather ... More >>

The Dodgers' Waiting Game Begins; How Long Depends on Weather and TBS

​Here's the big problem with TV determining the playoff schedule: today, TBS is broadcasting a tripleheader--the two AL series plus Game 3 of the Rockies/Phillies matchup in Denver.And because Denver is the farthest west of today's games they get the latest start, scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., Mou ... More >>

I'LL HAVE THE SALAD ON A STICK AND A DEEP-FRIED MARGARITA

Chicken Charlie's Midas Touch: Turning Deep-Fried Oreos into Gold

Photo credit: Aaron Stein-ChesterCharlie Boghosian​Before there was This Is Why You're Fat.com, there was Chicken Charlie. For almost a quarter decade now, 40 year-old "Chicken" Charlie Boghosian has spent 5 months of each year touring the California fair circuit with his custom-built trailers ... More >>

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