Hostess Brands lived to die another day.

The maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread says it failed to reach an union agreement and will go back to court today to ask a judge for permission to liquidate.

That has some people in Iowa concerned.

The fate of deep-fried Twinkies on a stick may be tied to the financial future — if any — of Hostess Brands.

The decision matters greatly to Larry Fyfe, the concessionaire who introduced deep-fried Twinkies to the Iowa State Fair in 2003, a year after the concoction debuted at the Texas State Fair.

Fyfe says he sells up to 7,000 of them each year.

Fyfe says he hopes another company will acquire the Hostess product lines. He says using a knockoff cream-filled spongecake “would not be one of my first choices.”