One Pick Only: What Hostess brand or product would you save from extinction?

[radhika]

Huffington Post has a slide show of Hostess products. Here's some of the most iconic names:

Twinks
Wonder Bread
Ho Hos (my favorite)
Ding Dongs
Fruit Pies
Cupcakes
Something else (see show)


Check out the slide show for a nostalgia trip back to your TV-fixated childhood.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/hostess-liquidation_n_2146045.html#slide=1769317

[Chipper Chat]

1. Twinkies

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[AsahinaKimi]

15. oh yes..

I haven't eaten one in years..but they sure tasted great.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I haven't eaten any of them for decades.

All I feel bad about are the lost jobs.

[ellenfl]

3. ditto. eom

[struggle4progress]

95. +

[Gin]

4. Zingers and snowballs

[lbrtbell]

19. Zingers

Because they're the only edible snack cake that company makes, LOL.

[question everything]

72. +1 (nt)

[DevonRex]

88. Raspberry Zingers and Snowballs. Nt

[BigDemVoter]

5. None

I hate it all--disgusting! Only thing worse is Little Debbie Snack Cakes--

[MynameisBlarney]

50. BLASPHEMER!

Little Debbies are AWESOME!

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Wonder Bread.

[limpyhobbler]

59. +1

[Xyzse]

63. +2

[nobodyspecial]

7. All chemical garbage

I feel sorry for the workers, but do not mourn the passing of this chemical soup that passes for food.

[meadowlark5]

8. The Ho Ho

I love Ho Hos even though I haven't eaten one in years. I've bought them for my boys, though. And I like the cupcakes.

Hopefully Pabst Blue Ribbon beer will buy them and keep the yummy junk food coming!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

9. Yeah the cupcakes used to be amazing . . . n/t

[enlightenment]

35. Used to be.

I bought one about six months ago - why I'm not sure - and was really disappointed. They changed the frosting. The frosting made the cupcake (well that and the white fluff inside the cupcake).

Healthy? No. Memory lane? Absolutely. But they were changed and so there was no memory left. I always liked the orange flavored ones best . . .

[gateley]

78. Agree. They're just different somehow.

[dflprincess]

54. I vote for HoHos n/t

[Skip Intro]

10. Pontiac! nt

[MynameisBlarney]

11. Zingers.

If you nuke them for about 10-15 seconds, they become a completely different sort of tasty and delicious tastiness.

[meadowlark5]

60. I forgot about Zingers!

I LOVE the red raspberry ones. I wonder if the store still has any left. I need to go tomorrow to pick up a few things, if there are those red Zingers left, I'm buying a few boxes.

I heard people are selling Hostess products on ebay. I suppose all have been bought to hock on ebay for exorbitant prices

[MynameisBlarney]

76. I don't think I've ever tried those

But the chocolate ones, oh yeah, getting some tomorrow.

[Lokey]

12. Fruit Pies

Esp the apple pie- haven't had one of those in a long time. I could use one right now.

[Joe Bacon]

13. None

I'll deal with my local baker who makes real food.

[bluedigger]

14. i like pie.

[TlalocW]

16. Strawberry Cupcakes

I visited my mom a few weeks ago, and she had some. I was up working late one night and needed some sugar and had one. They were pretty good - better than the chocolate ones.

TlalocW

[Tikki]

17. I don't like sweets with preservatives. If I HAD to, then donettes.

I can taste the preservatives aka chemicals in store bought sweets.
Hostess is better that way then Little Debbie and others...but it's just not what I eat.




Tikki

[gvstn]

55. Me too!

I'm not a baked goods fan and have never really bought any Hostess brand stuff except for an occasional loaf of Wonder bread and way back when Donettes (little crappy white doughnuts with a good powdered sugar to dough ratio for someone who doesn't really like doughnuts). Haven't really bought them since the came in the cello bag so about 10 years but I would still save them.

[AnnaLee]

18. I liked wonder bread for two sandwiches - peanut butter and sliced tomato

But I already had to give them up when I moved to the west coast. They had already closed around here.

[HiPointDem]

20. I don't give a damn about the products, but about american workers and the working

class in general.

[boomer55]

21. None. Crappy tasting over sugared cardboard. N/T

[larocks4552s]

22. I don't want any of them

They're too sweet and artificial.

[Nye Bevan]

23. White wonder bread.

I can't stand it but for some inexplicable reason my kids like it.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

24. Ho Hos without a doubt.

[geek_sabre]

25. zingers

Soo good.

[Shade7M]

26. Yo, Ding-Dongs..

Ding-Dongs, Yo!

[sadbear]

42. You ain't fat!!!

You ain't nuthin'!!! YOU AIN'T NUTHIN'!!!!

[Whisp]

27. Twinkies by a landslide

and if there are any left in out of the way spots anywhere in the world today, they will survive even cockroaches in a nuclear winter because they weren't food, they were something else - mostly chemicals.

I didn't have them all that often, but o yah, when I did it was nirvana.

[TheKentuckian]

28. Orange cupcakes. Orange cake is funky. Everything else is easily replaceable (pies, chocolate cake)

or inedible (twinkies almost always, snowballs).

I'd rather have zingers (especially the raspberry/coconut ones) than twinkies so they are both pretty inedible and replaceable.

SAVE THE ORANGE CUPCAKES!!!

[radhika]

37. Um, orange flavored cupcakes are the best!

Honestly, I haven't eaten any of them in ages - except for a one-night stand with Lemon Fruit Pie last year Don't ask.

But those pictures have re-stimulated me.

[eShirl]

29. apparently Drake's cakes are owned/manufactured by Hostess now, so

Ring Dings

[2naSalit]

80. When I was a kid

I loved devil dogs, and ring dings made only Drakes back then. Once they were bought out by Hostess, they totally sucked and I didn't like them anymore... aside from the fact that they shrunk, had less white stuff and cost more anyway. I remember Devils Dogs for a nickel or a dime... and they were wrapped in waxed paper.

Now, it's all high fructose corn syrup, zanthum gum and preservatives with food coloring, yuk. Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about them.

So if I had to choose one, it would be Wonder Bread because you can at least put something containing nutrients between two slices of the cardboard-like substance that might, by looks only, pass for bread. I stopped eating white bread when Sunbeam Bread went away.

I do feel bad for the employees, not about the end of some really horrid, barely edible or digestible crap. Although it is a form of job security for chemical corps and the medical industrial complex, especially dentists and endocrinologists. Won't miss 'em one bit.

[salin]

30. I haven't eaten any of these "treats" in more than two decades.

What I will miss is the discount Hostess Bread shop in town. It helped many people on limited budgets. Per any of the "treats" - can't miss (and thus vote for saving from extinction) something one hasn't had in decades.

[la la]

31. ding dongs, cold, right out of the fridge...ahhhhh

[JimDandy]

61. That's my save and cold too! n/t

[gateley]

79. Wow -- that sounds GOOD!

[XemaSab]

32. Colombo Bread

It's the only kind of French bread you can get up here that doesn't suck.

[tjwash]

33. Susie Q's

Extremely guilty pleasure

[ronnie624]

85. Mmm. Love Susie Qs

Remember the Banana Flip?

[erinlough]

34. Snowballs

Chocolate cake with filling covered in marshmallow and coconut. I've always loved them. Awful isn't it?

[architect359]

47. Why "Awful"? If you love them, you love them. n/t

[nolabear]

36. A Twinkie and a big ol' cup of coffee...Mississippi Continental Breakfast.

YUUUUUM. If I didn't have hips and arteries I'd be all over that shit.

[PD Turk]

38. The Fruit Pies

I remember back in my 20s when I was working for my uncle's company building and installing conveyors, we were doing an install at a Hostess bakery and the fruit pie line was running not far away where we were working. Ever so often we'd go snag one off the conveyor, still fresh and hot out of the oven.

[gkhouston]

39. The cupcakes.

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Fruit pies? Ya gotta be kidding me. I was in my 30's before I realized that their "fruit pies" are horrible commercial imitations of my mom's peach and cherry turnovers... that's how bad the crust on those things is.

[Eugene]

40. Orange Cupcakes

I'll miss several Hostess products, especially Drake's Funny Bones.

[subterranean]

41. Sno Balls

Deliciously artificial!

Although I haven't eaten any Hostess products for years, Twinkies were probably my least favorite.

[Honeycombe8]

43. Twinkies are the most famous, I guess. So Twinkies (tho I didn't care for 'em). I loved SNOWBALLS!nt

[WinkyDink]

44. The one called "Jobs," and I don't mean Steve.

[Matariki]

45. Fruit Pies

every thing should go straight to the rubbish heap anyway.

[hay rick]

46. Funny Bones.

Yum.

[longship]

48. Sno-Balls!!!!

You missed the coconutty goodness! With marshmallow and cake and a touch of cream (pseudo) filling.

How dare you!!!!!

[slackmaster]

49. Ding Dongs!

I used to love the foil wrappers when I was a teenager.

[A Brand New World]

51. Wonder Whole Wheat White Bread

We've always eaten whole wheat bread but now my husband, after 35 years, suddenly likes white bread so this is the compromise. I'm bummed that it's going by the wayside.

[architect359]

52. Apple fruit pies.

These had been my own special rare childhood treat when we could afford them. Have eaten the other flavors; not as tasty or memorable. The apple version - love them!

Twinkies are a close second.

[SheilaT]

53. Cupcakes!!!

I have never understood the salivating over Twinkies. In my humble opinion, they have always been awful. Although to be honest, I probably haven't tasted one since about 1957. I think I tried one or two, concluded they were the devil's attempt to overcome mankind, and have never had one since.

But the cupcakes have always been pretty good, in my opinion. And they're a food that hasn't changed much in appearance or taste in the last fifty years or so.

[Politicalboi]

56. Ding Dongs

It's a cake it's a candy. It's two great treats in one.

[slackmaster]

58. It's CHOCOLATE cake with chocolate icing

Double goodness!

[pansypoo53219]

57. 70's FULL FAT crumb cakes.

[truebluegreen]

62. Ugh. I thought you were talking about things that were edible...

[BeyondGeography]

64. Snowballs

A weakness since the 60's in my case.

[kestrel91316]

65. Chocolate cupcakes.

[Cartoonist]

66. I eat bad food

But I haven't eaten Hostess since High school.
I like their pies, but when I read that their calorie count for one pie is 400, it's just not worth it.

[mykpart]

67. Ho Hos.

Not because I like them, but because I like to say the name. Ho Hos. Ho Hos. Ho Hos.

[NoodleyAppendage]

68. Chocodiles

...good stuff.

J

[RomneyLies]

69. Let them all sink into the lowest pit of Hell. n/t

[Etraker]

70. twinkies

[catbyte]

71. None. They always look like they should taste better than they actually do.

[CBHagman]

73. The chocolate cupcakes.

Of course I don't eat them anymore, but it doesn't seem that long ago that I did.

[BillyJack]

74. Suzy Q's

[CaliforniaHiker]

75. Never ate them growing up

because my parents didn't buy them. But, I think I would go with Ding Dongs.

[Graybeard]

77. Nature's Pride bread.

I found their Nature's Pride 100% Whole Wheat and

Double Fiber breads were better than Arnold or other

mass market breads.

[Egalitarian Thug]

81. They've all been shit for decades. Sorry for the people that lost their jobs, but it's a big fucking

club and when it gets big enough, we can use it to beat the assholes that are doing this to us to death with it.

[jdadd]

82. Home Pride whole wheat bread....

[susanna]

83. Ding Dongs. Or, King Dons if you're older than dirt (as I am). n/t

[ronnie624]

84. Raspberry Zingers (with the extra one, for free).

But only if they taste like they did 15 or 20 years ago.

[MissMarple]

86. If we are talking Zombie War...all of them.

Keeping up your energy is most essential. And if you particularly love one, say, Twinkies, maintaining morale is important, too.

I think there are rules about the zombie wars.

[Romulox]

87. Twinkies have 150 calories, 4.5 g fat. Really not that bad for you!

(each )

[Raine]

89. Mrs Cubbinsons cheese breadsticks. nt

[Tom Ripley]

90. Do they still smell like Play-Doh?

[coalition_unwilling]

91. Mrs. Cubbison's (fat-free) croutons - n/t

[Kablooie]

92. The Japanese Hostess bars.

http://howtojapan.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-is-hostess-bar.html

[JDPriestly]

93. There is a bread line called Nature something.

They have sort of imitation wheat bread, but it is better than nothing.

[MFM008]

94. DING DONGS

then zingers, then twinkies. Ahhhh the nostalgia....