{"id":10083,"date":"2012-11-18T14:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T22:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/?p=10083"},"modified":"2012-11-18T14:49:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T22:49:45","slug":"hostess-thanks-for-the-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/hostess-thanks-for-the-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostess, Thanks for the Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve never thought of myself as a real junk food junkie.\u00a0 Yeah, I can give you an opinion on Cool Ranch versus Nacho-flavored Doritos. I can rank-order candy bars. We eat our fair share of sweets and treats around here, it\u2019s just not usually of the Hostess variety. So when news broke on Friday that Hostess was shutting down, why did I go out before work in search of Twinkies, Hostess cupcakes and Donette Gems? For better or worse, that junk is part of my childhood, and likely yours, too.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t go out on a hoarding mission. I bought one package of Twinkies, chocolate and powdered sugar donettes and cupcakes. That\u2019s it.\u00a0 At Target, as I was paying for my one package of Twinkies, the checker didn\u2019t shame me for buying junk food at 8 in the morning.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t talk about Hostess shutting down, instead she had her own nostalgic moment talking about how when she was pregnant with her first child, it was Twinkies that she craved, and she\u2019d send her husband out on midnight Twinkie runs for a box or three.<\/p>\n

Am I over-sentimentalizing a processed, sugar and preservative-laden fat bomb? Mmm, yeah. But there are plenty of people out there too ready with disdain<\/em> for anyone who would eat a Twinkie, who would almost prefer being thrown into a pit of venomous snakes to eating one themselves. Twinkies don\u2019t have to be your thing to recognize and give some credence to the fact that over the last 80 years, they\u2019ve embedded themselves in our culture (leave whether that’s good or bad to the individual). Twinkies are immortalized in movies like Grease, Zombieland, Die Hard and others. It\u2019s a reference we can all be in on. There\u2019s a shared experience in them that has driven pastry chefs and food bloggers to recreate not just Twinkies, but most of the Hostess line up.<\/p>\n

Will we be worse off as a people for not<\/em> having Hostess baked goods? From a jobs perspective, the loss of 18,500 jobs is nothing to dismiss. \u00a0From a food perspective, the answer is obviously no. Our changing views on food, and particularly processed foods, sent Hostess\u2019 sales downward over the last few years. We have other problems with our food supply, even the healthy stuff. If you really need your cupcake fix, Little Debbie and her Swiss Rolls are still around if you get the munchies. Even if the Hostess brand and the recipes are snapped up by another corporation, it will be different.\u00a0 Just the way Zingers have never really been the same since they became a Hostess product.<\/p>\n

My grandma always had a box of Dolly Madison Chocolate Zingers sitting on top of her chrome bread box, which never actually had bread in it. As a kid, I can remember standing in the bread aisle at Lucky\u2019s, staring past the brightly colored hand pie packages, only having eyes for the chocolate or powdered sugar donette gems.<\/p>\n

Just the smell of those chocolate frosted donettes takes you back to the time when you didn\u2019t notice, let alone care, that the roll of six has 22 grams of fat, and an ingredient list, well, we all know. But gawd help me, they taste exactly the way I remember. The cake is kind of dry (even with a Dec. 6 date stamped on the package), but it\u2019s not as yellow, and the chocolate coating is only vaguely chocolatey. Had we been a Nutella household when I was a kid, I might never have tasted these donettes. And still those little shards of chocolate that flake off are like little pieces of childhood.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s why I went looking. Twinkies and cupcakes and donettes and Zingers remind me. Of simpler times and simpler pleasures.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll probably open the Twinkies and cupcakes and take one bite of each with a mix of ecstasy and revulsion. And then with a vague sense of having lost something, though I still don’t know what it is, I’ll just say, thanks for the memories.<\/p>\n

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