Join Early Retirement Today
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
The "new" Hostess Snack Cakes?
Old 12-04-2018, 08:48 AM   #1
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
 
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Washington State
Posts: 2,350
The "new" Hostess Snack Cakes?

Is it just me, or has the taste of Hostess snack products declined since they went bankrupt in 2012?

Occasionally I will grab a Hostess fruit pie or mini donuts as a treat. Somehow they don't taste the same as what I remember as a kid, but I don't eat them often enough for a fair comparison. I always thought Hostess was the "top of the line" in snack products, but these days I think the smaller brands like Little Debbies or JJ's pies taste better.
mountainsoft is offline   Reply With Quote
Join the #1 Early Retirement and Financial Independence Forum Today - It's Totally Free!

Are you planning to be financially independent as early as possible so you can live life on your own terms? Discuss successful investing strategies, asset allocation models, tax strategies and other related topics in our online forum community. Our members range from young folks just starting their journey to financial independence, military retirees and even multimillionaires. No matter where you fit in you'll find that Early-Retirement.org is a great community to join. Best of all it's totally FREE!

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest so you have limited access to our community. Please take the time to register and you will gain a lot of great new features including; the ability to participate in discussions, network with our members, see fewer ads, upload photographs, create a retirement blog, send private messages and so much, much more!

Old 12-04-2018, 08:58 AM   #2
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
 
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: North
Posts: 4,031
Yes. I agree, I ate a ho-ho and it was not as good as the swiss cake roll.
__________________
Time > $$$ ~ 100% equities ~ FIRE @2031
kgtest is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 08:59 AM   #3
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
REWahoo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,004
Quote:
Originally Posted by kgtest View Post
Yes. I agree, I ate a ho-ho and it was not as good as the swiss cake roll.
A ho-hum ho-ho?
__________________
Numbers is hard
REWahoo is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 09:06 AM   #4
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Sunset's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Spending the Kids Inheritance and living in Chicago
Posts: 17,012
Over the last 2 summers, I bought some snack cakes that I used to adore as a child.
Once per week we would go into the village and I'd spend my money from carrying wood or chopping wood on an RC cola and a snack cake, sitting on the front porch of the store in the sunshine.
Great Memory

Now, when I eat the cakes, they simply don't taste as good.
I don't really think the cakes have changed much, but it is me, my expectations of taste have grown a lot.
After all, I never ate Thai food until I was around 40.
__________________
Fortune favors the prepared mind. ... Louis Pasteur
Sunset is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 09:06 AM   #5
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 3,877
I don't eat those items often but recall the taste changing for the worse around the time trans fats were villified and removed.
GrayHare is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 09:15 AM   #6
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
MRG's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,078
I don't care for the stuff like I did at 18. Can't eat near the calories. Not sure if the product changed or my taste but they don't make me want to eat them.
MRG is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 09:21 AM   #7
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 3,054
I'm a Yodels man myself. Ho hum on Ho Hos
jim584672 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 09:32 AM   #8
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
candrew's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Cholula
Posts: 1,595
I was a Suzy Q's fan back in the day. Used to love licking that cream filling off the inside of the cello pack!
__________________
“Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes.” – Jack Handey
candrew is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 09:45 AM   #9
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
JoeWras's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 11,701
Quote:
Originally Posted by GrayHare View Post
I don't eat those items often but recall the taste changing for the worse around the time trans fats were villified and removed.
Pretty sure you are spot on.
JoeWras is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 09:50 AM   #10
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
RAE's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: northern Michigan
Posts: 2,213
Frankenfood - wouldn't touch one.
RAE is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 09:50 AM   #11
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 3,054
Quote:
Originally Posted by candrew View Post
I was a Suzy Q's fan back in the day. Used to love licking that cream filling off the inside of the cello pack!
Suzy O's - You need 5 million to be satisfied.
jim584672 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 09:54 AM   #12
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
 
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Beaverton
Posts: 1,382
Ah, my Hostess cupcakes. Do you take a bite all the way through or save the icing for the blast of sugar at the end?

I think Bimbo purchased them (could be wrong) who's the largest bakery company in the world.

Just like when I was in Mexico a couple weeks ago and bought my favorite Jaegermeister (I know, ewww). It had a different taste. Looked and it's bottled in Mexico. Obviously the formula has some different ingredient.

Oh well
__________________
Jump in, the water's warm.
Bir48die is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 09:56 AM   #13
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
wmc1000's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Gosport, IN
Posts: 1,214
Second that on the Suzy Q's. Bought some recently and told DW that it was like eating air. No satisfying denseness to the cake and the filling was not smooth and creamy any longer.
wmc1000 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 10:44 AM   #14
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
 
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Western NC
Posts: 4,610
No good since they got rid of the trans fats
ncbill is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 10:51 AM   #15
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
audreyh1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
Posts: 38,008
I would never consider eating one regardless.
__________________
Retired since summer 1999.
audreyh1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 10:52 AM   #16
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
 
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 1,955
Hostess cupcakes have really gone down hill, and its not attributable to my tastes having changed. The vending machine at work stocked "Mrs. Freshley's" ? and they were much closer to what Hostess used to be.


I have not found a replacement for Hostess fruit pies yet. I lived on these in college. The vending machine in the TV room would get restocked and I'd swoop in and pull out cherry/blueberry/apple pies until a lemon or some other flavor was next... I'd go back to watching TV until somebody bought the lemon and then I'd go back to draining the machine. Now instead of a handheld fruit pie we just make a traditional pie.



Having a Hostess bakery outlet in town was dangerous!
Spock is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 10:57 AM   #17
Recycles dryer sheets
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 170
Per Google.............
Your sense of smell and taste change as you age. Between the ages of 40 and 50, the number of taste buds decreases, and the rest begin to shrink, losing mass vital to their operation. After age 60, you may begin to lose the ability to distinguish the taste of sweet, salty, sour, and bitter foods.
DatumPoint5 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 11:02 AM   #18
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
MRG's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,078
Quote:
Originally Posted by DatumPoint5 View Post
Per Google.............
Your sense of smell and taste change as you age. Between the ages of 40 and 50, the number of taste buds decreases, and the rest begin to shrink, losing mass vital to their operation. After age 60, you may begin to lose the ability to distinguish the taste of sweet, salty, sour, and bitter foods.
Thanks that explains a lot. I recently figured out I can't smell the stuff they put in nat gas anymore. I can't smell the hot springs in town anymore either.
MRG is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 11:18 AM   #19
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
 
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 1,955
Quote:
Originally Posted by MRG View Post
Thanks that explains a lot. I recently figured out I can't smell the stuff they put in nat gas anymore. I can't smell the hot springs in town anymore either.

https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/new...mers-warning#1


hmmm....
Spock is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2018, 11:20 AM   #20
Moderator Emeritus
W2R's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,474
Quote:
Originally Posted by mountainsoft View Post
Is it just me, or has the taste of Hostess snack products declined since they went bankrupt in 2012?

Occasionally I will grab a Hostess fruit pie or mini donuts as a treat. Somehow they don't taste the same as what I remember as a kid, but I don't eat them often enough for a fair comparison. I always thought Hostess was the "top of the line" in snack products, but these days I think the smaller brands like Little Debbies or JJ's pies taste better.
Quote:
Originally Posted by audreyh1 View Post
I would never consider eating one regardless.
+1
Quote:
Originally Posted by RAE View Post
Frankenfood - wouldn't touch one.
+1
It's been at least 20-30 years (or more) since I last had a Hostess snack product (or, Little Debbies and I never heard of JJ's). I didn't even know they went bankrupt.

In my case the reason is that I gain too much weight if I eat them. I do salute those of you who can get away with eating Hostess snack products , but it is simpler for me to just avoid them.
__________________
Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.

Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
W2R is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
What's your favorite NON-healthy meal or snack? folivier Health and Early Retirement 98 10-26-2017 11:03 AM
Your favourite hostess gifts? DangerMouse Other topics 15 11-26-2009 09:10 AM
Favorite healthy snack food Notmuchlonger Other topics 60 03-27-2009 06:40 PM
Money is like candles not cakes RDamien Other topics 7 06-30-2008 05:48 PM
Snack "Chips"? Fireup2020 Other topics 33 01-01-2008 08:44 AM

» Quick Links

 
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 02:47 AM.
 
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8 Beta 1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.