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Hostess Twinkies

Boxes of Hostess Twinkies are ready for shipment at the Interstate Bakeries Corporation facility April 20, 2005 in Schiller Park, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago. (Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

Newly Retired Hostess Twinkies Selling Like Hotcakes

Hours after Twinkie-maker Hostess announced its plans to close its doors forever, people flocked to stores to fill their shopping baskets with boxes of the cream-filled sponge cakes and their sibling snacks — Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and Zingers.

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