Hostess bankruptcies and soda mixtures

The other day I hypothesized that perhaps the bankruptcy of Hostess Brands will cause the 2012 apocalypse. Sure, Hostess Brands has gone bankrupt at least once, and the company said the production of their deliciously unhealthy products will continue. But sometimes companies that file Chapter 11 die. Sure, most airlines filed for Chapter 11 after 2001 and live on, but Borders filed for Chapter 11 in February 2011 and closed before the end of the year. So, what if Hostess Brands files for liquidation, and Twinkies and others disappear permanently because the bakeries close? Then, people start mobbing stores for the last Hostess sweets. Every Walmart, grocery store, and convenience store gets raided, and people start hoarding them, stealing them, or killing each other for them. If there's two-packs of genuine Twinkies in a vending machine, pull out those quarters. If it's been sitting on a Kmart shelf for years, it's fair game: those things last longer than the plastic around them anyway. Eventually that will lead to the world being thrown back to the Stone Age. How it goes from missing snacks to collapse of civilization, you tell me, but hey, it could happen.

Also in terms of food, today, while eating at the University "Commons", a dated establishment located in a lobby connecting four dorm buildings together (and I know it's old: the tables were black with multi-colored triangles), I created what I consider a new soft drink mix: Big Red and Dr Pepper, giving it the name "Red Pepper". I can't tell you the exact proportions, but it looked good, the bubbles on the top resembled mixing Cherry ICEE with Dr Pepper ICEE, one of my all time favorites.