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PLEASANTON, Calif. Now that Twinkies are no longer in production, retailers are launching their own versions of the popular snack cake.
Safeway here has created a Hostess Twinkies-like packaged snack under its Snack Artist private label.
It looks like a Twinkie. It tastes like a Twinkie. But this is no dream, Safeway wrote on its Facebook page. Snack Artists delicious snack cakes are real.
Along with the Twinkie imitation, the Snack Artist line also includes Chocolate Cupcakes, which look similar to Hostess Cupcakes in that they have the iconic white icing curl down the middle.
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Skittles
(153,193 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Didn't like it.
That's my Twinkie story. One bite - blech.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,185 posts)are copyrights for their "recipes" in flux? Can knock-offs be produced and sold if Hostess no longer exists?
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)already in production. I am not sure as to the legality of the situation, however I do know that products similar to Twinkies and such have been around for years.
FSogol
(45,526 posts)since before WWII and vice versa.