sorry about the opening but i couldn t get through it. something hit me. yeah. trying to get through this. now, the good news today is that texas judge where hostess is headquartered has ordered the company and the unions to get back together to see if they can work out a deal. if not, several companies want to buy twinkies and also ho-hos, which is great. whoever does, that please. i give you great admiration an hope. what greg has decided to do here is see if he can make up a twinkie milkshake. greg: when i heard they were liquidating hostess i was thinking liquidating twinkies. why haven t i thought of that? like opposite of slim fast. dana: fat shakes. [ blending ] greg: this looks delicious. dana: i think that is good. greg: all right. dana: it looks good. greg: dana said she would
sorry about the opening but i couldn t get through it. something hit me. yeah. trying to get through this. now, the good news today is that texas judge where hostess is headquartered has ordered the company and the unions to get back together to see if they can work out a deal. if not, several companies want to buy twinkies and also ho-hos, which is great. whoever does, that please. i give you great admiration an hope. what greg has decided to do here is see if he can make up a twinkie milkshake. greg: when i heard they were liquidating hostess i was thinking liquidating twinkies. why haven t i thought of that? like opposite of slim fast. dana: fat shakes. [ blending ] greg: this looks delicious. dana: i think that is good. greg: all right. dana: it looks good. greg: dana said she would
that s a big twinkie. tell them about the twinkie. what about the twinkie? twinkies? breaking news this afternoon in the fate of the snack cake. just this hour hostess and it s striking union have agreed to mediation talks tomorrow. it s the last ditch effort to prevent the twinkies maker by having to sell itself off piece by piece. the best brand name ever could be up for grabs. think twinkles ho-hos, ding dongs, devil dogs, snow balls, and while hostess and the union try to work out their difficulties, one of the names on everybody s list is a bread making company based in mexico. what will happen to the twinkie? could it be headed south of the border? let s backspin. there is so much good stuff in here and so much terrible news. i mean, no one wants a country
if the hostess brands do not survive, it would mean the end of a texas state fair favorite. the lone star state is home to the very popular deep fried twinkies. more than 80,000 of them have been sold in the last decade. and now the vendors who fry up those twinkies are hoping they can continue to make those improvised snacks. dip it in the batter. do it on a stick. fry them for a couple of minutes until the creamy center melts into the cake. and then we offer powdered sugar with chocolate sauce or mixed berry. oh, my word. twinkies have been flying off the shelves along with ho-hos, ding dongs, and zingers as people across the country are stocking up. twinkies are popping up on e-bay. get this for as much as $60 a box. they are ding dongs. we got e-mails and our twitter followers were saying there are king dongs.
worker used a blow torch instead of a saw to cut a line that had oil inside. and justin bieber dominated the american music awards walking off with three awards including artist of the year. rapper nicki minaj brought down the house, but none like this, rapper psy along with m.c. hammer complete with the pants there with the hammer pants. and he has still got it. look at this. and still ahead, outspoken chris christie makes a cameo on saturday night live and he is talking twinkies. that is coming up. and hostess workers and we are talking about ho-hos and wonder bread and mandy drury is here to talk about it again, mandy. hostess is back in bankruptcy court this morning and hoping for a buyer.