there are king dongs, different makers. ding dongs and king dongs. hostess makes ding dongs. the king dongs, i don t know where that and by the way, because the twinkie is such a recognizable brand, last year this year alone, they brought in $68 million in revenue. you d like to think somebody else is going to bid on this and the twinkie recipe will live on forever. has to. one of those ubiquitous american things. someone is going to save the twinkie. you know that. save the twinkie. free the twinkie. save the twinkie. it s coming, trust us. all right. a major storm is slamming the pacific coast, threatening to turn holiday travel plans into a washout. seattle, portland, and northern california have already been swamped by heavy downpours. just before thanksgiving, they re expecting up to 30 inches of snow in the cascades. a foot of rain and wind gusting as high as 50 miles an hour. and that could spell trouble for travelers. here is your monday forecast. dry and pl
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.
junk food we ve been eating. go ahead. you know we love to eat on the show. food. and we ve had random variety of food tonight. skittles. king dongs. or are they ding dongs? ding dongs. chips. now a story that kind of has really captured us. it is cracker jacks with caffeine. oh. they re called cracker jack d. jacked up with caffeine. they re going to hit stores soon. the power bites are drawing criticism from health advocacy groups. they fear that they might make the little kids a little too hyper. yeah. they got to be worried about marketing caffeine to kids. cracker jacks, a kids snack. kids snack. all the news. that came out this week five hour energy. whether deaths were linked to the drink.
respectfully decline, i respectfully decline, respectfully decline to answer on the basis of my constitutional right and privileges. pleading the fifth. the pharmacy that distributed tainted drugs had been investigated more than a dozen times in the past decade. so far, 32 people have died. from fungal meningitis and more than 450 were sickened. and those folks on capitol hill never like when folks plead the fifth in the hot seat. that never goes over too well. lots of questions about the health and the health history and, safety and sanitation history of that, of that facility here. conditions were deplorable when they actually checked it out. well, hostess, speaking of health conditions, hostess twinkies, cupcakes and ding-dongs are in danger of becoming collector s items. oh, no, the snack food giant says if striking employees don t return to work by 5:00 p.m. eastern time today, it will move to liquidate the entire company. and if that motion is granted,
will santorum drop out and become the light for the republican party? i know you want me to pain painstakingly break down each delegate and how they are portioned. the bottom line is you may end up with a mixed result again. it looks like it will come out with most of the headlines, but there could be a split in the delegates and enough to keep newt going and santorum going. thank god for that. jesse, have you been following politics for 30 or 40 years. this is your bread and butter. have you seen anything like this? you mean to tell me that after five months of coming on this show and having to research [bleep] about gingrich and it will be the guy everyone thought it would be in the first place and we could have done dudes who staple their dongs to their leg like we do at the end of the show? i spent all of this time