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Thursday, September 23, 2004

September 2004

9/30/04

Weekend Assignment #27: That Special Month

9/30/04

9/30/04

9/30/04

9/30/04

9/29/04

Debates? Au Contraire!

9/29/04

Suggest a Weekend Assignment!

9/29/04

9/29/04

A Baseball Strike, Japanese Style

9/29/04

What to Name the Washington Team

9/28/04

It's Not Easy, Running the World

9/28/04

Have You Registered to Vote?

9/28/04

Now This is Funny

9/28/04

Sarah McLachlan Spends Like a Swell

9/28/04

9/27/04

Road Games For the 21st Century

9/27/04

9/27/04

Happiness Is...

9/27/04

9/27/04

9/26/04

Are Bloggers Adding to the Problem?

9/26/04

Sibling Stories, Part II

9/25/04

Authors Blogging

9/25/04

Sibling Stories, Part I

9/24/04

9/24/04

Drive Yourself Insane

9/24/04

On the Flip Side

9/24/04

9/24/04

Not the Way to Feel Comfortable With Electronic Voting

9/23/04

Weekend Assignment #25: Sibling Revelry

9/23/04

Your Groan-Inducing Joke of the Day

9/23/04

Accelerated Kids

9/23/04

Two Pictures for the Price of One

9/23/04

I Guess it Had to Happen...

9/22/04

Your Silly Bit of Science News for the Day

9/22/04

AOL Journals 1.8 is Here

9/22/04

Abolish the Electoral College?

9/22/04

Better Be Hungry

9/21/04

Things Not to Do On Amazon

9/21/04

9/21/04

So That Explains It

9/21/04

Let Us Now Praise Fine Editors

9/20/04

Food For Mars, Food For Thought

9/20/04

A Hairy Defense

9/20/04

Beam Me Up... To The Kitchen

9/20/04

9/19/04

9/19/04

Music for Marriages, Part II

9/18/04

Music for Marriages

9/18/04

Say Hi to My Mom

9/17/04

Tomorrow is Be Nice to Your Waitress Day...

9/17/04

Making a Pillow We Can't Refuse

9/17/04

Links for Thought

9/17/04

Can It Be November Already?

9/16/04

Weekend Assignment #24: First Dance Songs

9/16/04

Worth a Plug Nickel?

9/16/04

9/16/04

9/15/04

Happy New Year!

9/15/04

And Ivan. Ivan So Far Away

9/15/04

9/15/04

Judy Blume, Award Winner

9/15/04

Look Out! Here Comes a Spider, Man

9/14/04

Invoking, Part II

9/14/04

9/14/04

Beyond the Far Side

9/14/04

And Then The Zombies Came Out of the Fogbank

9/13/04

9/13/04

Silly Trucks, 2004 Edition

9/13/04

Make Money Fast!!

9/13/04

9/12/04

The Face of Tomorrow

9/12/04

More Gifts to the Future

9/11/04

Remembrance & Celebration

9/11/04

Gifts to the Future

9/10/04

A Thing I Didn't Know I Didn't Know

9/10/04

Must...Stop...Drooling..., Part 2

9/10/04

September Garden

9/10/04

Cracking the Seals

9/9/04

Weekend Assignment #23: A Personal Time Capsule

9/9/04

9/9/04

The Animals Are Always the First to Know

9/9/04

The High Whirring Sounds of Dentistry

9/8/04

9/8/04

To Rip or Not to Rip?

9/8/04

Better Than the Lottery

9/8/04

When the Field Attacks!

9/8/04

An AOL-J Get-together?

9/7/04

9/7/04

Death to Floppies

9/7/04

9/7/04

Frightening Frances

9/7/04

My Supercool Wife

9/6/04

9/6/04

One More Picture

9/5/04

9/5/04

Evil, in Cuddly Form

9/4/04

So Cute Your Eyes Will Bleed

9/4/04

Picture, Perfect

9/3/04

Final Thoughts?

9/3/04

9/2/04

Weekend Assignment #22: Picture This

9/2/04

Convention Thoughts

9/2/04

9/1/04

Something Pretty

9/1/04

You've Got Journal!

9/1/04

More Convention Thoughts

9/1/04

Procedural Note

« September 2004 Archive

Thursday, September 23, 2004
2:09:00 PM EDT
Hearing Food for the Gods -- In Flames

Your Groan-Inducing Joke of the Day

Why is Interstate Bakeries, makers of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, filing for bankruptcy?

Because it's run by Ding-Dongs!

Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the creme filling!

Seriously, though, the BusinessWeek article I linked to makes a point: The brands themselves are a little stale. I've got someone in the house who is in the Twinkie prime demographic, and while I don't think she'd turn one down if you offered her one, she's not going out of her way to ask for them by name. Indeed, as the article suggests, she prefers stuff like Gogurt (that's yogurt in a tube for those of you without kids) to Twinkies. I know because I just asked her.

And I don't mind that: I'm not under the impression Gogurt is exactly great for her (waaaaaay to much suger and unnatural food colorings), but a yogurt-based snack is better than one whose "creme filling" is basically sugared beef fat. And just today, she requested a sandwich with wheat bread, while I was the one scarfing down the Wonder Bread.

I wouldn't worry about Twinkies or Wonder Bread disappearing off the face of the earth -- Interstate Bakeries is reorganizing, not going out of business -- but Twinkie the Kid's definitely looking a little less spunky than usual.

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#4 Comment from sdoscher458
9/23/04 6:44 PM | Permalink

One by one the icons fall...never liked Twinkies but oh, my...Wonder Bread was all we ever had in our house, and an occasional genertic Rye....Someone once told me that there was enough preservatives in the Twinkies to have a shelf life of 1,000 years..(sometimes I'm gullible).....Sandi
#3 Comment from musenla
9/23/04 3:34 PM | Permalink

Yup, Twinkies need a makeover.
#2 Comment from andreakingme
9/23/04 3:27 PM | Permalink

I'm such a dork because I think that joke was WAY too funny.
#1 Comment from mavarin
9/23/04 3:19 PM | Permalink

All Hostess and related brands have to do to get back on track (probably) is make healthier, less guilt-inducing snacks. I'm holding out for low carb Ho Hos. - Karen