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Read somewhere that twinkeys have a shelf life of 20+ yrs , so they'll be showing up at high prices and small amounts for some time. Of course some corp might buy the brand out of the liquidation and start makeing em in a nonunion bakery.
They said a lot of bad things were going to happen befor the end of the world on the 21st. of December 2012.But they didn't say it was going to get this bad.
... the strike lasted only long enough for the plant to be closed down. The irony of that was my company's original warehouse selling hardware was in Fort Wayne and they went on strike to make "Harvester" wages shortly after the Harvester plant closed. Our management told the union to end the strike and get back to work by X date or the warehouse would be closed the day after the X date.
Needless to say, they did not listen, the warehouse was closed, and not one dealer missed his order or got a later order because the company's other warehouses, not union, served the area based on prior contengency planning.
I can remember seeing on the news this big, burly bearded guy with tears just streaming down his cheeks. One of the news crews put a microphone in his face and with all sincerety he looks dead into the camera and says, " I just can't pay my bills or feed my family on $20.00 and hour !"
I was aghast because at the time I was working at Publix for $2.60 cents an hour and I knew my dad was cutting hair at his barber shop for $1.00 a head. In 1980 money $20 per hour was a boat load of cash and he still couldn't make ends meet? WOW !!
