Your box of foil covered HoHo's made everyday seem like Christmas to this young child
Your Dolly Madison commercials during the much anticipated annual run of Peanuts' 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" made me love Halloween even more
Your Snowballs satisfied my obsession for all things coconut, when coconut was not a popular ingredient in commercially baked goods
Your Donettes were a favorite after school snack when my mom worked and wasn't there to steer me to something more nutritious
Your DingDongs sustained my picky eater best friend in junior high, who would not eat anything else in our school's cafeteria (besides peanut butter crackers and ice cream sandwiches)
Your Twinkies were........well sort of gross, and become fodder for many jokes about cream filling in high school
Your outlet store within walking distance from campus gave this poor college gal a cheap sugar fix and a change from the usual pizza and beer that I consumed with my spending money
Your HoHo's once again came through when I needed legs for a SpongeBob Squarepants cake I made for middle child's birthday about 10 years ago
And finally, you lured me in again recently, when I was looking for new treats for my kids and noticed your cupcakes now came in orange and strawberry flavors
Goodbye, faithful snack cakes. You will be missed.
Fear not for the future poor-college-kid's snacking needs!
ReplyDeleteFrom all I've been reading, it's very likely the brands will be purchased and on the shelves again, in relatively short order.
After all, the corporate structure has been bought/sold multiple times already, and nobody noticed. (The only reason we notice this time, is the liquidation).
Here's hoping, cuz I like some Ho Ho's!
I can't say I'm wild about any of these products, whose names all sound like innuendo. Swiss Cake rolls - who makes those? I like those.
ReplyDeleteYeah, there's blame all around for this as well the requisite lies. truth is that both sides ruined the company in concert and neither valued it enough to save it. Sad day for sure but I hardly think the goodies are gone. Let the bidding war for the iconic treats begin!
ReplyDeleteTruth is I never sampled any of these goodies until I was adultish. It's a sad sorry whiney tale but even as an adult I came to appreciate 'em. Youngest daughter is nicked Twinkie afterall ...
I've gotta think that marginally healthier eating habits had cut into their sales a bit, anyways. Never was big fan o' the snack cakes, but in my HS years, I did have a bit of a jones for the fruit pies. . .
ReplyDeletei gotta say, no hostess product has ever impressed me. i'm all about tastykakes. but i can appreciate that others will miss them.
ReplyDeleteThey have been around for quite a while, and most likely like the preservatives that keep them from disintegrating, they will be around for a while yet, with a new owner that is.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful tribute to Hostess and some of the wonderfully delicious products they made! Hubby and me at times will talk about the fruit pies they made, how so delicious, as well as some of their other delectable goodies. Hard to imagine they won't be on our grocery shelves any more. We were in stores over the weekend and I just happened to look to see if anything was left on the shelf to purchase, but sadly so much had already been bought by others.
ReplyDeleteI did work for a heart surgeon years ago that loved frozen Twinkies; there were always a supply of them in the office.
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Sailor - I'm hoping you are right and the support already shown by consumers might convince someone to buy the rights or whatever to the products. HoHo's were always my fave.
ReplyDeleteAgent - Little Debbie Swiss rolls? Definitely not as good as the Hoho!
X - my husband grew up in a deprived household as well, but learned to love the fruit pies when he had his own spending money.
Craig - I read an article that said when the Atkins diet came out, that was the beginning of the end for Hostess!
Lime - the introduction to Tastycakes is only recent in this area. But their price is outrageous, so I've never tried them. Six dollars for a package of six cakes?
Jimmy - Didn't Clinton put a Twinkie in a time capsule? I have some vague memory of that.
Betty - oh, the irony of a heart surgeon loving Twinkies!
Actually, a heart surgeon handing out Twinkies makes perfect sense; kinda like drumming up business. . .
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Sorta like one of my old dentists handing out candy for kids who behaved during their appointments. . .
I can think of one or two British manufacturers whose products would be sorely missed if they shut up shop. And one or two local bakeries too for that matter.
ReplyDeleteCraig - our orthodontist hands out toothbrushes to trick or treaters at his house.
ReplyDeleteNick - I think local bakeries are missed most when they leave. People always reminisce about a bakery in our area that made the best white cakes and I think it's been gone for 25 years now.
I have to say that I've never really enjoyed any of those pre-packaged baked treats. My Granddad, however, loved them and his treat cupboard was filled with pies, Hostess treats, macaroon cookies and Puffs or Wagon Wheels.
ReplyDeleteKinda neat how certain treats bring back memories of a time or place, much the same as a song would.
check out the news, now the judge is trying to force a resolution instead of liquidation ... stay tuned
ReplyDeleteFlutter - puffs and wagon wheels? Now I'm intrigued!
ReplyDeleteX - God is good.
To be honest, I've never been a big fan of any of their stuff. The only things I really liked were the apple pie thingies. And for a little while they made those pies with custard inside and chocolate on the outside. Mmm. :)
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ReplyDeleteKay - I very vaguely recall a chocolate covered custard pie and I'm sure I loved it! And truthfully, all these treats tasted much better to me when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteit's all about the twinkies.
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