{"id":806,"date":"2012-01-15T09:26:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T16:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sugaralert.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2024-06-09T18:59:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T01:59:53","slug":"a-cheerless-rejoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"A Cheerless Rejoice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">By Dean L. Jones, C.P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1950\u2019s placed me smack in the middle of the pastry snack frenzy.&nbsp; Everyone I knew then tried a Hostess product to see if they were as good as others would claim them to be.&nbsp; Well, after countless pounds of fat and unthinkable amounts of processed sugar the largest wholesale maker and distributor of bakery products, the Hostess Brands recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.&nbsp; This includes a long line of their companies including Wonder Bread, Nature&#8217;s Pride, Dolly Madison, Marie Callender&#8217;s, Roman Meal, Butternut Breads, and Drake&#8217;s brands.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surely none of their subsidiaries will take a big hit, but the main point with highlighting this bankruptcy is that there is an obvious shift in the eating habits of Americans.&nbsp; The idea of ever eating one of these nothing treats should have never become a practice growing up, but it was the hot fad in my elementary school days.&nbsp; The Ho Ho came a little after my primary days, but there were the famous CupCakes, Suzy Q\u2019s, Hostess Donettes, Mini Muffins and Fruit Pies, Sno Balls, Zingers, Ding Dongs, and those irresistible Twinkies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The times are a changing, because with the over saturated snack food market, the new fad is to avoid eating those Twinkies and that Wonder (that is not really) Bread.&nbsp; Hostess employs roughly 19,000 people and this is their second bankruptcy filing after it suspended payments for union pensions and was struggling to remain current on its\u2019 $700 million loan and is carrying more than $860 million total debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowing that folks will potentially lose their job is no welcomed occurrence, as I know it is hard finding one, less alone keeping one. (Side note: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.JobObama.com\">www.JobObama.com<\/a>) Back in the day, I remember seeing a sugary-filled Hostess pastry just about everywhere, but the message is clear and eating habits are evolving for the better.&nbsp; Hence, Hostess over stayed their welcome and should have pulled back on their processed sugar packages a long time ago.&nbsp; These aforementioned products have zero nutritional value and were marketed for a time as something to eat for boosting energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By and large I feel like having been a victim to these sleazy snack items, especially when you hear things like the Twinkie was once said to have an unlimited shelf life.&nbsp; Even though it is not true as they do decompose and disappear, but just <em>a <\/em><em>whole lot slower<\/em> than most natural items.&nbsp; Once expose to air it will last as long as 25 days.&nbsp; I cannot imagine today eating a Ding Dong simply by its name alone.&nbsp; Even so, the downward sales trend of products containing excessive fats, processed sugars and indigestible chemicals represents a cheerless time since jobs will go away, but a time to rejoice that more people are practicing more healthy eating choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dean L. 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The 1950\u2019s placed me smack in the middle of the pastry snack frenzy.&nbsp; Everyone I knew then tried a Hostess product to see if they were as good as others would claim them to be.&nbsp; Well, after countless pounds of fat and unthinkable amounts of processed sugar the largest wholesale&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-obesity","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-10-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12050,"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/12050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugaralert.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}