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With the demise of Hostess, I thought it would be fun to reminisce about our favorite Hostess treat!
What is your favorite?
Mine has to be Devil Dog's! Many winter weight gains have started with just one carb craving for a pack of Devil Dogs!
When I was little, I remember liking Ring Dings and Yodels. Since I am a child of the 60's, before the onset of the large supermarket and large boxes of all things fattening, I remember going to the corner store (at a time when a small child go do such a thing without fear--*sigh*) and buy a two pack of Yodels. At home, I would oh so carefully remove the outer chocolate frosting little by little in order to savor the treat and make it last longer..then I would eat the cake seperately. I remember them being lined in a delicate silver foil which I would carefully remove and then use to make a strapless 'mod' metallic mini dress for my Barbie doll! LOL!
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Well, Twinkies is almost the mainstay favorite, so I'm going to mention others I like besides that.
I remember that they made orange cupcakes, and those were quite delicious, and thought this was certainly a change from the ho-hum white and chocolate cupcakes that we'd normally wind up with. Also, I thought their Fruit Pies were perhaps the best turnovers I've had. Living near one of their bakery thrift stores, you can tell I've been around the block with their desserts.
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It seems that my personal preferences (above) are because I am from the North East! When one thinks of individually packaged snack cakes, the first word that probably comes to mind is “Hostess.” But for those who grew up on the East Coast of the United States, there has always been an equally-loved underdog known as Drake’s Cakes. For those east coasters who have relocated to places where their beloved Devil Dogs and Yodels are no longer available, Hostess snacks are considered a substandard substitute for the treats they hold dear to their heart. Enjoy the trivia and an actual commercial for Yodels from 1965! http://www.retroland.com/drakes-cakes/#.UK1Hs4ZmogE
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They made a cupcake with a creme filling, and chocolate frosting over devils food. It was good!
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They made a cupcake with a creme filling, and chocolate frosting over devils food. It was good! The Hostess cupcake! Yes, I liked that as a child; though I tried one a few years ago, and it didn't thrill me like it did when I was younger because I now know what real chocolate tastes like! LOL!  Hostess CupCake is a brand of snack cake most recently produced and distributed by Hostess Brands. Its most common form is a chocolate cupcake with chocolate icing and vanilla creme filling, with eight distinctive white squiggles across the top. However, other flavors have been available at times. It has been claimed to be the first commercially produced cupcake, and has become an iconic American brand.
History
The Hostess CupCake was first sold on May 11, 1919.[1][2][3][4] According to author Andrew F. Smith, it was the first commercially produced cupcake, originally produced by the Taggart Bakery as the Chocolate Cup Cake.[2] Hostess has also claimed that it was "the first snack cake ever introduced to the market."[5] In 2004, rival Tastykake disputed this claim, claiming that Tastykake introduced the first snack cake.[5]
Originally, two cupcakes were sold for five cents.[4] Different flavors were offered during the early years, including cupcakes topped with vanilla or malted milk flavored icing.[3] During the 1940s, an orange flavored cupcake was developed, with orange cake and icing.[3] But until 1950, the Hostess CupCake did not have any filling or the white squiggly line across the top.[3][6]
In 1947, D.R. "Doc" Rice, who started his career at Hostess in 1938 with a job that entailed dumping baked cakes on a table, was given the task of developing the Hostess CupCake further.[3] These developments culminated in an updated cupcake in 1950.[6] A white line consisting of squiggles was added to the top in order to distinguish the Hostess CupCake from other brands.[3][6][7] The vanilla creme filling was also added.[3][6][7] Rice got the idea for using a creme filling when a new machine for injecting filling into Hostess Twinkies became available.[3] Improvements were also made to the cake mix and the chocolate icing in 1950.[3] According to Rice, the updated cupcakes were first produced and test marketed in Detroit.[1] From Wikipedia
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Being a vegetarian, I of course never have objections to cupcakes. Baskin Robbins makes a turkey ice cream cake, with a brown glaze and sugar cone drumsticks. This year for Thanksgiving, I will be having my cake and eating it, too. 
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LOL!! Actually, the other day someone asked me if I was a vegetarian. I am not, but I am *almost*. I still like a tasty meat dish occasionally, but ONLY occasionally...as a treat-- rather than a staple. I love, love, love veggies and plant based foods! Tonight I created a new dish! I mixed roasted spaghetti squash strands with cooked vermicelli pasta, added some chick peas, olive oil, salt, pepper and topped with Romano cheese. It was yummy and very healthy.. Yesterday I cooked another easy dish which I created a few months ago--sweet potato and (real) crab cakes--and those were totally vegan and awesome--I added lots of cumin and crushed walnuts to them. Cumin and sweet potato go well together. Anyway- Enjoy the turkey cake! 
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Yeah, you can support that liberal PETA organization by going vegetarian all you want, but Thanksgiving has its traditions that should be noted that turkey is still the staple, and I feel that this country wants to take what we know about Thanksgiving away from us. *Sigh* Where's our freedom to celebrate nationally recognized holidays anymore? George Soros, tear down this wall.
Enough ranting for a while. Back to the Hostess topic.
I think that the cupcakes were the best things to come from them outside of the Twinkies, to be sure. However, let's not forget that Wonder Bread was another one of their products. Now that made for some great bread to have grilled cheese sandwiches with.
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Thanks. I will also try those recipes.
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I don't support PETA. What I am also not supporting by being vegetarian, is the pharmaceuticals companies that make the cholesterol lowering drugs, and other medications I have no desire to take.
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I don't support PETA. What I am also not supporting by being vegetarian, is the pharmaceuticals companies that make the cholesterol lowering drugs, and other medications I have no desire to take. ABSOLUTELY!! I agree 100%! I refuse to take statins and have lowered my overall cholesterol by 50 points (as well as raised the good, lowered the bad, and brought down triglycerides) since adding two tablespoons flax seed to my almost vegetarian diet--which I have to also thank the Orthodox Church for, being that every Wed. and Friday and Lent, Nativity, and Dormition fast periods are vegan and/or vegetarian days... In the beginning of adhering to these fasts about 11 years ago, my husband really missed meat, but the last few years, even he has stopped craving it so much on non-fasting days...He misses dairy much more, and also such foods as soups that have chicken stock as a base. We eat red meat only once a week now and chicken here and there. The good thing about not considering it a staple is that I try to find organic grass fed meat for when I do make it..(haven't found any cuts of meat labeled as such, but Trader Jo's and Costco have ground meat from Australia which fits this bill). Such meat is not only NOT bad for you like other meat we eat (because of the hormones, antibiotics, conditions and feed they are given), but it is actually GOOD for you because of the healthful Omegas it contains! I just heard of a new word called 'Nutritarian'...Maybe that is what I am?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NutritarianAs for PETA, Iron Bob--hehehe--I love fur and leather, turkey and lamb (as a good Greek girl) and they have no right to dictate to anyone on what to wear or what to eat!
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PINK SNOW BALLS! All those imitations out there just don't cut it. Hadn't seen them in years, by Hostess, we were traveling someplace, the kids thought I was nuts when I saw them.
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I drink a combination of black and green tea every morning, with honey and lemon. The rest of my crazy body acts up, but never the colestoral or triglycerides. I do watch what I eat, especially since my body doesn't like much, but before I started drinking the tea, those numbers were creeping up. I'm like y'all, I won't and can't take those drugs!
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Those pink snow balls were tempting. I use to buy them in my younger days.
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I have no idea what they are... 
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