'Sushi' made from Twinkies (© wisebread.com)

If Twinkies disappear, Twinkie sushi will become extinct.

Twinkie pyramid (© princessmalphaba2 via webshots.com)

Without Twinkies, whatever will college students use to build pyramids?

Twinkie wedding cake (© cakecentral.com)

Think of all the depressed brides and grooms who can't have Twinkie cakes at their weddings.

Twinkie bus (Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons via Blogspot)

Good luck getting to school without your Twinkie school bus.

Zhu Zhu Pet treat (© gourmetmomonthego.com)

Without Twinkies, these things, whatever they are, won't exist any more. Scary.

How will the Easter Bunny get around without a Twinkie car?

Gentlemen & a lady deep-frying a Twinkie (Jauphraux via Reddit)

Parties will become much less fun if deep-fried Twinkies disappear.

Video still of an Orc eating a Twinkie (Denver Harward via YouTube)

Orcs will go hungry.

Shark cupcake made with a Twinkie (thevor via Reddit)

How will we create sharks to swim in our cupcakes?

Twinkie in a CT scanner (dummystupid via Reddit)

We'll have to find other objects to run through CT scanners.

Office Twinkie experiment at (from left) two years old & present day (BeerCanFullOfSand via Reddit)

Scientific progress will stagnate.

'Twinkie Circuitry' (© Brock Davis/Laser Bread via Flickr)

Nor will there be developments in the electronic Twinkie field.

'In memoriam' photo of Twinkies (warltdwick via Reddit)

Gonna miss you, Twinkies.

Dr. Mark Haub, who lost weight on a junk food diet (© David Mayes/KSU)

And this guy, who lost 27 pounds eating only Twinkies and protein shakes, will have to start eating real food.

14 reasons why the thought of a world without Twinkies is so troubling

11/16/2012

Hostess, the company that makes Twinkies, that delicious and time-resistant foodstuff, is liquidating its business after failing to come to terms with its bakery workers. We don't want to imagine a world without Twinkies. Instead, we're going to look back at some of the amazing things the delicious snacks have done for us over the years. Check out our gallery of the various ways Twinkies have been used, and then stock up in case we have to make our way in a world with less cream filling.

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