Twinkies may be smaller than people recall

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By CANDICE CHOI

NEW YORK (AP) - Twinkies are back, but they may be a bit smaller than you remember.

The new boxes hitting shelves this week list the spongy yellow cakes as having 270 calories and a weight of 77 grams for two cakes, or 135 calories and 38.5 grams for one cake.

Right before it went out of business, the predecessor company had told The Associated Press that Twinkies were 150 calories per cake. Photos of past boxes online also indicate the weight to have been 42.5 grams per cake.

A spokeswoman for Hostess, Hannah Arnold, said in an email Monday that the size change was made in "mid-2012" by the predecessor company. That would mean it happened in the months leading up to its bankruptcy, as the company was trying to keep its head above water financially.

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In this Friday, July 12, 2013, file photo Jo Mullen picks up a box of Twinkies at Wal-Mart, in Bristol, Pa. The new owners of Hostess have leaner operating costs now that they're no longer using unionized workers. It turns out the spongy yellow cakes may also be a little smaller than the last Twinkies people remember eating. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

[JeffHead]

1. They could make a twinkie the size of a battleship and I still wouldn't buy it

Fuck Hostess!

[Warpy]

4. Hey, it's the perfect junk food,

spun sugar around a core of spun sugar and fat.

I'm not surprised they're smaller. Just about everything out there is smaller these days. Just try to find a true half gallon of ice cream.

[geomon666]

5. .

[NYC_SKP]

2. If they aren't baked by union members, I have no appetite for them.

Screw off, Twinkies.

[Sunlei]

20. me too, screw off union scab twinkies.

[derby378]

23. Make that union-scab DINKY Twinkies

Now made with non-union labor and smaller than they used to be, but hell yeah, we'll charge you out the ass for one.

Maybe I'll try one of Tastykakes' Twinkie competitors, instead. Can't recall if it's made with union labor, though.

[brooklynite]

24. Are you cnfident everything else you eat has that union purity?

[NYC_SKP]

26. Not everything I eat has that union purity.

But I buy exclusively from a union chain, Safeway/Nob Hill, and that constitutes the vast majority of what I eat.

[Travis_0004]

3. Who cares about twinkies

I'm waiting for the return of the fruit pie.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. For fruit pies, and only fruit pies, I might have to set aside my pro-union feelings.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. I loved those things.

Whenever we found ourselves in Crozet, Virginia, we'd make sure to swing by the factory to get them. Those and the pot pies, which, at the time, they were like ten cents each, made for good eating. If we could make it past the guard pterodactyls on the way out of the lot, we were home free.

[penultimate]

15. I haven't had one of those in ages...

I was never a huge fan, but I would get them every so often. I look at pictures of them now and they don't seem too appetizing to me.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. It's been probably 20 years for me at least but they were my go-to lunch for a while in college.

Pretty tasty-- not overly sweet.
Even Superman liked 'em!

[darkangel218]

6. I LOVE twinkies!!!!

[LiberalElite]

8. I'm waaay more concerned about -

the loss of union jobs.

[Beacool]

9. I have never liked Twinkies.

They are not worth the calories. If I want to eat a pastry, I get one from a good bakery.

What I want is my Wonder Smart. Where is it????

[penultimate]

16. Exactly how I feel about twinkies...

If I'm going to take in those calories, I'd rather it be something of better quality.

I ate maybe five twinkies over the last decade, and I don't foresee me increasing that count by very much in the coming years.

[Beacool]

19. I don't care for those kind of sweets and donuts too.

I'm not a donut lover. Very seldom will I have one at work or in church.

Now, get out my way or I'll trample you, for a good scone, muffin, French pastry, certain cakes and any fruit pie or tart.



What I want from Hostess is their Wonder Smart bread, only 50 calories per slice and they are normal slice too (unlike WW slices which are small). I liked to have 2 slices for breakfast with a little nut butter (peanut or almond) for protein. I miss my bread!!!!

[sybylla]

10. They just don't seem to be as good as they were years ago.

I have never been a regular Twinkie eater, as they were always too expensive for my family. But the way I remember them creates this huge expectation that no Twinkie has been able to match in twenty years. Now, they are just a giant dried out and flavorless disappointment.

Sad, too, because they once were flipping awesome.

[One_Life_To_Give]

11. Twinkies, the Coke Classic of snack food now?

Maybe there is a marketing opportunity to make the Real junk foods?

[onecent]

12. I'm waiting for the Wonder Bread to come back.

Never could get a twinkie down when I was a kid...too much dry cake, and not enough white filling...I always gave mine
to my brothers. Ick

[Jefferson23]

13. Let them eat.....

Seriously, why does anyone eat these things? Are they especially cheap to purchase?

Instead, bake your own Dog. It is chocolate, has to be better than the store junk yellow thing.
http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2008/02/devil_dog_cake

[KamaAina]

17. And scabbier.

The new owners of Hostess have leaner operating costs now that they're no longer using unionized workers.

[Sunlei]

18. new cheap workers blow more air holes in the sponge

[Joe Hyperion]

21. Very bold investigating reporting by AP into the issues that affect us

I say give her a Pulitzer.

[FSogol]

25. The people who eat them are not smaller!

Just saying.