Drakes or Hostess??

[Poohnatic]

Another distinction of the Yankee and Sunny Doodles is that there were three cupcakes in the package, as opposed to two in everything else.

Who else remembers the strawberry sponge cake filled with twinkie like cream that Drake's put out in the 80's. I think it was the Strawberry Shortcake. I would be so very happy if they brought those back!

We get a small amount of Drakes here in Florida. In Maryland/VA, it was hit or miss, but Wegman's had them. Just can't get those Funny Bones, but I can get my Ring Ding and Coffee Cake fix just fine!

On Long Island as a kid, we got Dolly Madison, Drakes, Hostess AND Tastycake. Hostess was only preferred for Twinkies (and my favorite part was the part that stuck to the cardboard), but Dolly and Tastycake weren't on the radar after having them a few times.

We usually get the kids Little Debbies for their lunches, but if they have a choice, they also choose Drakes. I cannot keep Nutty Bars in the house for long-that's the one thing I love from Little Debbie.

Who else has gained ten pounds just thinking of all this delicious stuff?

Suzanne

 

[JVL1018]

Drake's for sure!!!

I, too, was remembering when Ring Dings and Yodels were individually wrapped in aluminum foil. Memories...

When I was little we bought Drake's Yodels, Ring Dings, Devil Dogs, Yankee Doodles, single serving pies and coffee cakes, Tastycake chocolate cupcakes, and doughnuts were always Entenmanns.
Hostess is ehh, sometimes we'd get Twinkies or Chocodiles, I'd always bring them to school for lunch and trade them.

Little Debbies we just started getting within the last 10 years. I tried them, ick, no wonder why they're so cheap, they taste it.

Everytime DH takes our kids up to his firehouse they get a treat from the snacks they sell and it's always Yodels.
The guys at the fire house call DD "the Yodel Queen"

 

[jh123]

Definitely Drakes!!

We used to carefully unwrap the yodels at lunch and use our fingers to try and smooth out the foil so it looked brand new. Also used to eat the chocolate off the yodel and try to unroll the cake part without breaking it. We must have had longer lunch periods than the kids do now! lol

Joan

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

Mmmm........Funny Bones

 

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

I never had a Drakes cake.

I must admit to being quite a Ding Dong lover.

 

[Southern4sure]

Ohhh, I'm a Drakes cakes girl all the way. Have not had them since I was a young girl. Only Lirttle Debbie and Hostess available here in WNY.

But I gotta know what is with the table full of Hostess. Darn girl, I would be big as a barn knowing that was so close.

I couldnt make up my mind which one I wanted.

No, seriously though my brother is a route sales manager for Hostess in AL and this Saturday the Relay for Life team I'm involved with is setting up a concession stand to sell hotdogs and etc. I asked my brother if he could get a deal on some treats to use as desserts.

All the treats in the picture is what he drove to FL with in his trunk. He did not charge me a dime.

 

[barbeml]

Definitely Drakes!!

We used to carefully unwrap the yodels at lunch and use our fingers to try and smooth out the foil so it looked brand new. Also used to eat the chocolate off the yodel and try to unroll the cake part without breaking it. We must have had longer lunch periods than the kids do now! lol

Joan

I could have written this post! Must be a Jersey thing!

 

[minnieandme]

Although I like them both about the same, I'm gonna go with Hostess just for the Twinkies. I used to love Chocodiles. Anyone know why they stopped making it?

 

[ShesAPirate]

Although I like them both about the same, I'm gonna go with Hostess just for the Twinkies. I used to love Chocodiles. Anyone know why they stopped making it?

Ahhhh! I specifically came here to talk about Chocodiles! How funny!

Apparently, they still make them, but only on the West Coast. They can be ordered online, though - at freshchocodiles.com.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

Ahhhh! I specifically came here to talk about Chocodiles! How funny!

Apparently, they still make them, but only on the West Coast. They can be ordered online, though - at freshchocodiles.com.

I just posted on another thread I used to eat those for lunch.
I don't see them here on the east Coast anymore. just as well, I don't need an extra 10 pounds on me.

Overall I like Drakes better.

 

[AmazingGrace]

I love Drakes. Devil Dogs rock. However, back in the day, I had a thing going with Chief Big Wheel!! Anyone remember Hostess Big Wheels??
Also, remember enntenmanns cakes? I still love their coffee cakes and when I was little, their cupcakes were the best.

 

[lulugirl]

I love Drakes. Devil Dogs rock. However, back in the day, I had a thing going with Chief Big Wheel!! Anyone remember Hostess Big Wheels??

 

[mamacatnv]

Hostess Sno-Balls are the best!

 

["Got Disney"]

Well when I go back East I eat Ring dings...out here in California they are Ding Dongs...they are the same...so I guess both depending on where I am grazing at that time

If youdo not know already that is my favorie of both.

Thank goodness I have as Eliptical in my house that I utilize every day or I would have a ring ding dong dong butt...

As I tell my Dh when a bad day is upon me..."Looks like it's gonna be a ding dong day"

 

[Southern4sure]

Isnt that a ding dong?

 

[AmazingGrace]

Yes, but they used to be bigger, and theywere called big wheels. They tasted better too.

 

[lulugirl]

A Ding Dong is a chocolate snack cake sold in the United States under the Hostess brand name, which is owned by Interstate Bakeries Corporation. The snack was originally known in the Eastern United States as a King Dong and later a King Don. In some areas it was marketed as a Big Wheel.

The chocolate cake is round with a flat top and bottom, similar in shape to a hockey puck. It is about two inches in diameter and a little more than an inch high. A white cream filling is injected into the center, and a thin coating of chocolate glaze covers the entire cake. The cake was originally wrapped in a square of thin tin foil, enabling it to be carried and packed in lunches without melting the chocolate glaze.

The Ding Dong was first marketed by Hostess in 1967. The name was given to coincide with a television ad campaign featuring a ringing bell. The company marketed the snacks on the East Coast as Big Wheels, to avoid confusion with the Ring Ding, a similar (and pre-existing) treat by Drake's Cakes. The names were consolidated in 1987, when a short-lived merger of Drake's with Hostess' parent company (then Continental Baking Company) briefly resolved the Ring Ding/Ding Dong conflict. When the merged company broke up, however, Hostess was forced to cease, once again, using the Ding Dongs name in areas where Ring Dings were available. The compromise sound-alike name King Dons lasted until Interstate Bakeries Corporation, which had recently merged with Hostess' parent company, bought Drake's in 1998. The Hostess product is now sold under the name Ding Dongs throughout the United States. However, the snack is still sold as the King Don in Canada.

Like Twinkie's Twinkie The Kid and Hostess Fruit Pies' Fruit Pie the Magician, Hostess created a cartoon character to advertise the Ding Dong: an anthropomorphized Ding Dong sporting a crown and sceptre named "King Ding Dong". In the eastern secondary market selling King Dons, the character was, like the product, known as King Don. In areas that used the "Big Wheel" name, the character was an Indian chief named "Chief Big Wheel".
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Now I'm really hungry...

 

[Southern4sure]

I think I know exactly what a ding dong is.....

 

[AmazingGrace]

Great, now I'm hungry and not a ding dong to be had....THANKS!!!!!!

 

[Southern4sure]

Sorry, I'll share with ya! I have plenty to go around. Heck, I could feed half the Dis