Hostess, the maker of famed Twinkie snack food, is going out of business due to bankruptcy. This had people rushing to the stores in pursuit of buying the last of the Hostess goods that would be manufactured.

Ruth Watson, 42, is a Winco grocery store employee. She said that the Hostess products went quickly just hours after the news broke.

“It was totally crazy, I hadn’t even heard about it yet but noticed that every single one of my customers was buying several boxes of Twinkies,” said Watson. “I finally asked one of my customer’s about it and when they told me I was almost sad because I love Twinkie’s and Ho Ho’s.”

“By the end of the day we were completely sold out of Twinkies and had limited amounts of other Hostess products, people were even asking if they could leave their phone numbers just in case we got one last shipment of them in, they even offered to pay extra,” said Watson. “People are really crazy about their Twinkies I guess.”

Amanda Knight, a Winco Grocery Store shopper said she bought 16 boxes of Twinkies.

“I have honestly never bought a box of Twinkies before, but my husband called me and told me to go to the store and buy a whole bunch of boxes so we can sell them on eBay,” said Knight. “I thought he was crazy but I looked it up and sure enough, people are selling boxes of hostess products by bulk. On average, one box of Twinkies is selling for $50. That’s totally crazy.”

Sarah Rees, 23, a Shopper in Winco, said she isn’t really all that upset about it and doesn’t know why everyone is making such a big deal about it.

“I don’t know why everyone is so upset about it, Twinkies are so gross. That goes along with the rest of Hostess products,” said Rees. “Who would want to eat a product that really never expires? This reminds me of the movie Zombieland though because of the one character’s endless search for a Twinkie.”

Chad Steel, 21, is an Albertson’s employee and thinks that Hostess isn’t really going out of business.

“Yeah, all of our hostess products went really quickly, people were buying so many boxes of them and I just laugh because I know Hostess isn’t really going out of business because Hostess has supposedly gone out of business like six times before,” said Steel. “Twinkies are like America’s past time, hostess started in like 1930 I think, they’ll come back someday, how can America not produce Twinkies?”

Joseph Smith, 71, is an Albertson’s grocery store shopper and said that he can’t believe Hostess is going out of business.

“I have been eating Twinkies since I was a kid, my family didn’t have that much money growing up but each time my mother went grocery shopping she always picked up a box of Twinkies,” said Smith. “It was almost like a luxury, and no matter how different you were from all of the other kids, the one thing we all had in common is that we always had a Twinkie in our lunch boxes.”