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" Here&amp;#039;s a deal we can get behind. Last year, when Hostess declared its second bankruptcy and closed its bakeries, companies like WalMart, Kroger, and others milled around it, entering the bidding to be the one to control the all-powerful, all-American Twinkie brand as well as Hostess CupCakes, Ding Dongs, and Ho Hos. Now, it appears we&amp;#039;re nearing the end of the deal, and it&amp;#039;s a partnership between Apollo Global Management (a buyout shop, probably full of Pretty Woman-era Richard Geres) and Metropoulos, the owner of Pabst Blue Ribbon, that are on top. A deal might not be disclosed until later this week, and there is a chance that others can top them, but, basically, this could be the deal of the century: A cheap, easy-drinking, red-white-and-blue beer brand and a buying firm of the type which only exist in capitalist countries are about to buy the only thing more American than a cheeseburger and fries. They&amp;#039;re made for each other. Now we just have to start handing our 8-year-olds PBRs when we buy them Twinkies. Because we get it \u2014 those Twinkies you buy are totally just for the kids. [via The Wall Street Journal] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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