The Great Twinkies Flying Off Store Shelves

So in the wake of the news that Hostess is going to shut down their factories and that there will be no more Twinkies, so I went to the store to get some. I figured, "Hey, since Twinkies keep for a while I will buy a couple boxes for a rainy day." Apparently everyone else had the same idea. I went from store to store to store looking for those little yellow sponge cakes and could not find them! I felt like Woody Harrelson's character from 'Zombieland' in search for them except I didn't have to fight zombies while I searched. Though, some shoppers were walking around kind of like zombies.

I decided I was going to do one more stop at Safeway before I gave up. I walked in and they were sold out of boxes. Dammit! But to my luck I found four packs of 2 and snatched them up. I am going to hold on to them because one of two things is going to happen.

One: Twinkies are going to become such a hot item that I will be able to sell them on eBay someday and pay for my children's education and maybe get me a new car.

Or two: I can tell my children about the Great Twinkie Epidemic of 2012 and when they ask what they were like I can pull out a pack and let them try them.

Probably the latter is going to happen but hey, here is to dreaming.

In all seriousness, it is a shame that Hostess went under but more than likely those delicious snack cakes will be bought by a different company and continued to be made. They won't be the same and who knows maybe they will be different enough that people will want the original Hostess cakes.