This 2003 file photo originally released by Interstate Bakeries Corporation shows Twinkies cream-filled snack cakes. Twinkies first came onto the scene in 1930 and contained real fruit until rationing during World War II led to the vanilla cream Twinkie. (AP Photo/Interstate Bakeries Corporation via PRNewsFoto)
“They just got sucked out,” said Carol Wilson, store manager for Fast Food and Fuel in Rockmart.
Fast Food and Fuel was the only place in Polk County that sold Hostess products.
Wilson said a swarm of customers bought up the goodies immediately after the company announced in November that it would be closing shop after failed union negotiations.
“It wasn’t just the Twinkies,” she said. “It was all the Hostess stuff — the Sno Balls and the Ho Hos. They came in and snagged them all.”
Hostess, founded in 1930, permanently closed three plants Nov. 12 because of a union strike. It said it would be forced to liquidate if workers didn’t return to their jobs.
The company announced on Nov. 16 that it would close all of its bakeries and liquidate. Operations at all of its bakeries were suspended and most of its 18,500 workers were laid off.
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