Hostess

As I'm sure you all have heard, Hostess the company went bye-bye.  American's everywhere were weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, and not to mention frantically raiding store for the last few Twinkies.

Honestly, I never was a big fan of their products- I never liked Twinkies (gasp! Am I American?!) (google spell check tells me to capitalize Twinkies. What the?) And if I ate one of the cupcakes, I would eat around the filling. 

One person I thought about when I first heard of this, was my grandpa. Towards the beginning of the year, we celebrated with my dear Grandpa on his 90th birthday.  Anyway, many many years ago, he worked for Hostess, I believe as a distributor (is that right family? Don't be mad if I'm not right on specifics...I'm still the favorite, a close second after Annie, obviously).  My mom still has one of his Hostess t-shirts, which I loved as an awkward teenager.

Then I realized today, Grandpa out-lived Hostess!  Way to go, Grandpa!  That's quite the accomplishment.

I'm trying to convince my mom to have him put on his old Hostess t-shirt sometime over Thanksgiving- I'll be sure to post a picture if this happens.