Comments on: When the Mission had its own Twinkie factory

By: jerseys cheap

jerseys cheap — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:07:55 +0000

This is in the trailer rental place is now? I am confused reference kobe Bryant and 18, since 1500 the address is in 15 street.

By: Freedrinker

Freedrinker — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:33:05 +0000

^ yuk…give me mayo.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:03:38 +0000

I totally remember this! I used to work at Showplace Square West and every afternoon, I would take our bulk mail down Alameda Street to the post office on Bryant. The scented air from the factory was both mildly repulsive and tantalizing. Sometimes we could even smell it through the windows of the office.

And I agree that the anti-union blaming for the bankruptcy is so disappointing and unsurprising. I was so disappointed to see Teamsters bashing the grain millers union, and blaming them in the news. I know the situations and negotiations are complicated, but I would at least like to see unions get on the same page and blame the corporate d-bags for the closure of the business, not fellow workers.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:20:30 +0000

Yup, well said.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:52:39 +0000

Equity vampire capital took over after 1st bankruptcy and increased ceo salaries three fold. Sold pension fund. The same old but untold real back story. Read Retirement Heist if you can. This wasn’t about a ‘strike’…they made the demands knowing it was going to happen…it’s about cannibalizing a company for quick bucks. http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/11/16/death-by-twinkie-what-the-hostess-liquidation-says-about-labor-and-the-economy/

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:41:23 +0000

A good article, thanks for the heads-up. I’ve been so annoying by the awful reporting and anti-union propaganda that has dominated most articles that I’d pretty much given up hope of finding anything meaningful in the news.

By: Old Food

Old Food — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:46:25 +0000

The factory had a big inlet on the side of the building where trucks full of corn syrup would connect and pump out their loads. There was a large trail of nastiness from the inlet across the sidewalk to the curb.

By: Crab y Monkey

Crab y Monkey — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:34:17 +0000

There’s a difference between “life-supporting” and death-dealing.

By: Wet Blanket

Wet Blanket — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:28:45 +0000

Automobile workers, butchers, lumberjacks, PG&E employees, fishermen… the list goes on. Sad fact is that if the only people who had jobs were those in the life-supporting professions, unemployment would be around 75%.

By: scum

scum — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:25:39 +0000

The smell of that place always bugged me.

By: Crab y Monkey

Crab y Monkey — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:07:01 +0000

Strike-breaking tactics. I’m sorry for the workers, but only as sorry as I would be for people who were put out of work if a cigarette company went out of business. Making a living out of death is a bad life.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:47:46 +0000

Wow! Thanks for the history lesson. As someone who lives around the corner from here, I’m now somewhat thankful that our neighborhood no longer smells like pungent mayo… Sorry, factory workers.

By: sure

sure — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:25:40 +0000

relax you muppet – don’t worry you’ll still be able to buy your twinkies and support the workers:
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/relax-twinkies-likely-live-1C7121954

By: SlideSF

SlideSF — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:52:00 +0000

Should be 15th. Must be a typo. 18th and Bryant was home to another of the area’s iconic scents from days gone by – the Best Foods factory where mayonnaise was made. Not only more pungent than the Hostess bakery, the aroma spread to encompass most of the eastern Mission and western Potrero Hill. And not only was it a pervasive smell, but on foggy nights (of which there are a few here) fine droplets of oil would be exuded from the smokestack, mixing with the fog and forming it’s very own type of greasy residue. Mayog? Ah the charms of days gone by!

By: blah

blah — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:50:11 +0000

>no worries really.

C’mon now. It’s fun to write with a voice that says “this is a lighthearted and kind of silly blog,” but I think you just told us that there’s “no worries” when 18,500 people get laid off as long as you can still eat a vegan twinkie.