{"id":2320,"date":"2012-11-16T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/11\/goodbye-hostess.html"},"modified":"2012-11-16T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:10:00","slug":"goodbye-hostess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/11\/goodbye-hostess.html","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Hostess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I know it\u2019s been a long, long time since we were able to afford the Hostess brand of snack cakes. \u00a0Generic has been our preferred brand, when we\u2019ve bought anything. \u00a0 In recent years, there\u2019s been little at all, so I can\u2019t speak to the quality of the Hostess products. \u00a0Still, it may be that we weren\u2019t the only ones in our modern economic incarnation that felt it just wasn\u2019t worth it, no matter how tasty those little treats were. \u00a0Perhaps that\u2019s why they are finally shutting down the Twinkies, the Cupcakes, the Ho-Hos.<\/a> \u00a0I hate it for the families of those who will be losing their jobs. \u00a0Prayers for them, since it was a year ago, right before Christmas, that we found out my wife was losing her job due to cut backs resulting from schools not purchasing written\u00a0curricula. \u00a0Nonetheless, sad to see the product go. \u00a0My youngest won\u2019t ever know how good they were, and my boys simply never had the chance to have many owing to our economic fortunes. \u00a0 Best of luck to those who will be joining the unemployed this holiday season.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know it\u2019s been a long, long time since we were able to afford the Hostess brand of snack cakes. \u00a0Generic has been our preferred brand, when we\u2019ve bought anything. \u00a0 In recent years, there\u2019s been little at all, so I can\u2019t speak to the quality of the Hostess products. \u00a0Still, it may be that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nGoodbye Hostess<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I know it's been a long, long time since we were able to afford the Hostess brand of snack cakes.  Generic has been our preferred brand, when we've\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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