Devil Dog Deathwatch: Classic Snacks Largely Gone From Wakefield
A check of various Wakefield merchants confirms that Twinkies, Devil Dogs and other classic treats have left the building.
On Friday, Hostess announced it was shutting down - leaving some 18,500 workers without jobs and likely meaning the end of some very famous snack cake products. Just four days later, a check of various Wakefield merchants finds that the vast majority of Hostess products in town are already gone - and there's no more on the horizon. If you're craving a final snack cake fix, your best bet at this point is probably the Shaw's on Water Street. A visit to that supermarket Monday around noon found that there was actually a fair number of Yodels of all things - and even better, they were all on sale for 4/$10. That's because all jokes aside about Twinkies surviving a nuclear war, these things really only have a shelf life of several weeks. Other …
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Mari
12:30 am on Saturday, December 1, 2012
Oh shut up, people choose because we still have a right to eat whatever we want. I eat a din-dong once a year. So what are you the food police. You people better get it in you head straight that we are in charge of food not the government cronies wife preaching what to eat. Self responsibility. BREAD IS A STAPLE! more ›