{"id":110,"date":"2012-11-18T03:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/?p=110"},"modified":"2012-11-19T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T16:09:49","slug":"trending-twinkiemoviemoments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/2012\/11\/18\/trending-twinkiemoviemoments\/","title":{"rendered":"Trending: #TwinkieMovieMoments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Twitter community has been buzzing about the much-loved american snack, Twinkies, since Hostess Brands, the snack&#8217;s producer, announced that it was closing for business. The hastag &#8220;TwinkieMovieMoments&#8221; was started by Empire Magazine and featured favorite cameos of the little white and yellow treat. Some tweets include, &#8220;Tallahassee&#8217;s quest for Twinkies ends well when he stumbles upon a pile of them in Zombieland&#8221;\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ash4\/c34.0.403.403\/p403x403\/417145_10151238395674591_1772866439_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Speculations have been raised about Obamacare and its involvement in Hostess&#8217;s termination. But one analyst says the company&#8217;s downfall was caused by the immense debt\u00a0accumulated\u00a0through multiple mergers, and two claims of bankruptcy dating back to the 1980s.\u00a0\u00a0In addition, Hostess Brands&#8217; products, though signature to the American lifestyle, are old and lack-luster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I believe Hostess Brand&#8217;s failure was caused by a dependency on its customer loyalty. Its lack of new inventive products were unable to meet up with the markets demand for gourmet high-end specialty baked goods. Still, even though I dislike the cream-filled cake, the news of the potential end of Twinkies spurs me to go out and buy a box of my own, just to savour the memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Information from:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/helaineolen\/2012\/11\/16\/who-killed-hostess-brands-and-twinkies\/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/panosmourdoukoutas\/2012\/11\/17\/twinkies-another-casualty-of-obamacare\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter community has been buzzing about the much-loved american snack, Twinkies, since Hostess Brands, the snack&#8217;s producer, announced that it was closing for business. The hastag &#8220;TwinkieMovieMoments&#8221; was started by Empire Magazine and featured favorite cameos of the little white and yellow treat. Some tweets include, &#8220;Tallahassee&#8217;s quest for Twinkies ends well when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sharonmui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}