How the Hostess and The Twinkie Almost Died 

I remember those times, Hostess came back but they don't taste the same

I love the powdered raspberry filled donuts. I don think they sell those anymore? Not only are they good but they have a special place in my heart. My uncle, who has since passed away used to sneak a box and share them with me ❤

I grew up in Chicago with a Hostess factory nearby. They had a factory store. We ate like KINGS! I suspect someone bled the company dry, profiting handsomely until they bankrupted the company. Happens a lot when companies lose market share. Someone swoops in, cashes out what they can, the company goes bankrupt and nobody's the wiser. I'm a Capitalist at heart, but milking struggling companies dry causing them to quickly collapse, is not right.

I’ve always loved the cherry and berry pies, the chocolate cakes, and the lemon cakes.

Yes, Hostess snacks now have a shelf life of 65 days but I preferred them when they had a shelf life of around 30 days. They were changed from baked goods to... I'll say it... baked bads.

Sno Balls! Sno Balls?! Where are the ******* TWINKIES?!?!?!” - Woody Harrelson in Zombieland as “Tallahassee”

brotha this channel is a gem

Hostess Honeybun 😋

I love them all! Twinkies, Cupcakes, Ho-Hos, Sno-balls, Ding-Dongs, Zingers, Fee-Faws, Wah-Wahs, Doo-Doos, et al.

You made me wait the whole episode for the Zombieland reference. Well played.

They forgot to mention that Mark's home runs had chemical help. Much like the ingredients of twinkies.

Tallahassee's Favorite is: Twinkies From Zombieland

I normally don't like Hostess products but if you get me two-pack of Hostess birthday cupcakes and stick it in the freezer for a bit I'll devour it in 2 seconds

They died. What we have now are zombie brands.

Loved twinkies but i think my favorite was suzy Qs, or maybe zingers. Ah hell i loved them all.

Ding Dongs were my jam, cream filled chocolate hockey pucks.

I like the hostess chocolate cupcakes 😊

In the 80s it was all about Hostess Potato Chips and collecting, baseball and hockey mini stickers, Dick Tracey tattoos and anything else stuck in a bag.

I've never been a fan of snack cakes, but Hostess orange cupcakes are so good!

I still find it jarring to see Zingers under the Hostess name, I forever associate them with Dolly Madison and Peanuts. I think the history of the Dolly Madison brand would be an interesting video topic, and I hope it'd be "weird" enough for this channel.

When I was a kid in the 80s my favorite was the pudding pies.

The only 2 things I crave every now and again are the Raspberry Zingers and the SnoBalls. The craving for their Twinkies died when they changed the flavor of them - idk what they did, but my tastebuds rejected them.

It took 9 minutes before we got to the title event. It makes it almost seem like an afterthought.

The fact that the Twinkie defense worked is absolutely baffling. This is why not just anybody should be allowed to sit on a jury.

hostess is only a name now. remember archway cookies big soft sugar cookies? pepperidge farms remembers.

The Suzieque my favorite band I miss but

I love the original Twinkies Y'all coming out with these other weird flavors STOP IT 🛑😂 Geez 🙄

As a proud citizen of the mid atlantic region I say simply Tastykake > Hostess

I love banana pudding mega muffins, creamcheese and blueberries danish and jumbo honeybuns.

The twinkie doesn't even taste good anymore. So if they had went chapter 11 no huge loss.

my only complaint with hostess is when it was bought by apollo global, twinkes, cupcakes and ding dongs were smaller (don't know about the rest of the line) made quite sloppy and looked deformed. so when you open a box it looks like they were just thrown in because the box was the same size as before. the classic presentation when opening a box with organized treats is not there anymore.

2:44 I scored two transfer associate degrees on National Cupcake Day (December 15th). At the end of this year on December 15, the film Wonka (tells the origin story of Willy Wonka) has its theatrical release.

AMAZING

Old mate Hugh was a good looking bloke back in the day! Nothing screams great sort like a scribbled out face in black texter & his grandson William looks just like him... Looks like great sorts ran in the family. Seeing the song Fanny was just ahead of Junk Food Junkie is a bit of shock... Ud think a song named Fanny would be #1. Maybe if the US knew what a Fanny was in Commonwealth nations they'd be still # 1 til this day

Yum hostess

Here are a few key points about the healthiness of Hostess snack products: - Hostess products are generally high in calories, fat, and added sugars. This makes them an unhealthy choice if consumed in large amounts or on a regular basis. - Specific products like Twinkies contain around 135 calories per cake with 4.5 grams of fat, most of which are unhealthy trans fats. They also contain over 13 grams of added sugars. - Hostess Donettes contain around 120 calories per serving with 4 grams of fat and 11 grams of added sugar. - Hostess cupcakes are around 300 calories each with 5 grams of saturated fat and over 22 grams of sugar. - The snacks are made with refined flour and oils and lack fiber, protein, and other nutrients. They are considered "empty calorie" foods. - However, in moderation, these snacks can occasionally be part of an overall healthy diet. Having a treat once in awhile is ok, as long as the majority of the diet is based on wholesome, nutritious foods. - When choosing Hostess products, it's best to stick to smaller single-serving sizes instead of large packages whenever possible. Controlling portions is key for limiting calorie, sugar, and fat intake. So in summary, Hostess snacks are high in unhealthy ingredients and lacking in nutrition, making frequent consumption unwise. But the occasional indulgence of these sweet treats is unlikely to be harmful for most people. Moderation and portion control are the keys to keeping these in balance.

Shamrock flavour is peppermint and chocolate

Whenever I want something stale, dry, yet greasy and oily, I buy hostess products.

Never really like much of what hostess kicked out myself. Always tasted like pure chemicals to me. Only exceptions are the bread and that only because it keeps a crazy long time without any weird taste. That and the orange snowballs which were a childhood treat.

The turn of the 20th century, not the turn of the 19th century.

how about balut. had it and nasty but girls and beer i did it 3 times in the P.I.

I once named roadkill, it was an opossum but it had eyes, and you know what? I couldn't sell it to children as food, and I tried, so I put a little sugar on it, and took a bite myself. The sugar didn't make it taste much better, Ben, I named it Ben, Ben's backstory was that he really hated cars and I thought I could sell the idea, I could not. I never gave up, I just kept putting stuff on roadkill, I mainly used opossums, however, I will admit that I also used my fair share of squirrels too. Never named the squirrels, or anything after opossum number 5, I started to feel numb, no matter what I did everything tasted like roadkill, which tastes like semi rancid meat, rubber, and a bit of tar. I think I may have given it away, what I did with the meat, what it is, and what it's called today. If you haven't figured it out, let me tell you the main ingredient, and you, I think, will understand. Anuses, and lots of them too, you see that was the issue with the roadkill, they only come with one, and even though they come at least 7-fold to each anuses, their tiny opossum nipples just couldn't cut it. But I figured it out, I just needed a loan to buy that petting zoo for all of its exotic meats. You know what? I bought it, and less than a year later the world would be introduced to my delicious baby: "Steakums"!* I'm working on microwavable fish at the moment, as the cousin of Steakums. *The saying "Delicious baby" in no way is an implication that I, or anyone I have come in contact with, had anything to do with the incident. Steakums just kind of absorbs stuff when no one is watching, and there are no laws against that.

Couple of things they should have included. The Drake's Cakes law suit over the Ding Ding vs their Ring Ding, and the banana cream of Twinkies until WW2. Very surprised at the omissions of these critical points in Hostess history.

Request fir a follow up video. Zingers were originally produced and sold by the Dolly Madison Bakery and used Peanuts characters in its ads. Snoopy would appear in the ads as the Zinger Zapper. Hostess eventually bought Dolly Madison. And don't ask for a Zinger in Trinidad and Tobago - unless you want a chicken sandwich rather than a snack cake.

Zingers and some of the other products were actually under the umbrella of a subdivision of Hostess called Dolly Madison. Dolly Madison rather famously featured Charles Schultz's Peanuts characters as product branding on all their packages, and they were the featured sponsor for Peanuts holiday specials like Charlie Brown Christmas and It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown back in the 60's and 70's (with Coca-Cola being a co-sponsor of the original airing of the Christmas special.) In 2012, Dolly Madison was liquidated from Hostess, which was bought by Apollo Global Management in 2013 for around $430 Million. So selling it to Smucker's a mere decade later for $5.6 Billion was a pretty good return on investment. Also, there was a Banana Crème Zinger that was my absolute favorite way back when and I need them to bring that flavor back before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

I like seeing funny food references in movies (I know, weird, right?) One of my favorites is in Ghost Rider 2. One of the bad guys becomes decay. Everything he touches decays and goes bad or disintegrates. In one scene he is driving a car (don't ask why the car did not rust when he touched it) and he is trying to eat something while driving. He grabs a few things that go bad instantly. All but a Twinkie. He ate that just fine.

Should be noted that the whole reason Hostess went under like it did was because the Board of Directors didn’t want to pay their workers fairly or provide health benefits, failed to squash the union, then slammed the company into the ground so they could make millions each. Twinkies aren’t the only thing that should be eaten.

There are often treats in the break room at work. Last week somebody put out Twinkies. It was a good day.😀

I have not had a Hostess Twinkie in many, many years, but I do remember just how great a treat they were. I know they are full of sugar and people say they are bad for you. Only life is way too short not to enjoy a twinkie every now and then. After all we all are gonna die. Enjoy a twinkie before you kick the bucket~~~!!! Shalom

Don't think it was mentioned that twinkies originally had banana cream filling and switched to sugar cream

Now I want a Twinkie 🤣😛🤪

Hostess came back, but it's not the same. Little Debbie never left. She's the only one you can trust now.

Weird history food could do the history of solo cups and why they are used so much . Maybe would this go on the regular channel ?

I woulda been devastated had you not mentioned Zombieland in any way, shape or form.

I think the Twinkie scene from Ghostbusters was part of the public outcry to bring Twinkies back. Never underestimate the power of pop culture to save a brand, I guess...

Anybody else remember Hostess gaslighting us by changing the name of Ding Dongs to King Don's... and then back to Ding Dongs?

Why is Hugh Ward's face censored?

Sno Balls were always my favorite. In addition to the taste, I was always fascinated by the stretchy marshmallow exterior covered in sweet, coconutty flecks of goodness before diving into the cream-filled chocolate cake inside.

Though it’s bad for me, chocodiles are my fave go-to Hostess snack! (With Dingdongs being a close second) 🤤

Hostess didn’t introduce the Zinger, beyond creating the slightly larger Twinkie. Zingers were created by the Dolly Madison Company; which was eventually purchased by Continental Baking Company. Several other Hostess’ items were acquired that way, along with the current version of the Hostess Fruit Pie. Hostess and Dolly Madison produced snd sold fruit pies. The difference in them was Hostess had a thinner crust with a bit more ‘fruit’ filling while Dolly Madison’s had a thicker crust with slightly less filling, though they had a couple more types including chocolate. Hostess changed their pies to the thicker crust/less filling version, and added chocolate-filled, after buying their competitor. That’s also when Hostess started selling other ‘new’ items like mini muffin cakes, mini carrot cakes, individual crumb-topped cakes along with others.

The story of Allegheny City sounds quite interesting. The population hated the idea of a merger, but it was popular in Pittsburgh.

I miss the Hostess store, now if I want Twinkies or other hostess products I have to go to Safeway or Lucky or Target

This edit is chaotic and I love it

Let us not forget those fruit pies.

From the days of the 1960s......I remember 'Scooter Pies' , but recently spotted them again in packaging that appears to be produced in Mexico.

Oh yeah, favorite Hostess snack? The cream filled cookies, I used to stick candles in them and sing "Happy birthday cookie" to my nephew when he was 3, he is 18 now, he still laughs if I put a candle in a cookie. My nephew was a baby at the time, and while it was not his birthday, he NEEDED to blow out some candles, and not wait almost a year for it to happen again.

I feel like Twinkies don't taste the same anymore! Also I'm sad Wonder Bread is dead though! 🍞

They make a great candy substitute for Halloween.

I wish they would bring back Choco Bliss

It's an American classic! I'm hungry now. Grab me something to eat please, Weird History Food

Twinkies were made by a different company in Canada, so we never saw a drop in production during the crisis. We did lose the baked pies though.

As a Philadelphian I must ask that you guys do a video on Tastykakes please

Raspberry Zingers for the win.

Deep frying a Twinkie makes it healthy, right? - Jim Gaffigan

GOTTA SAY! I am so curious about why 0:50 you'd black out faces 2:20 that are easily Googled. I'm really 6:57 curious about that, but moreso why you'd use a photo of a blacked out face to begin with. 10:11

You forgot to mention the old Hostess fruit pie advertisements in Marvel and DC comic books. They were tales filled with HIGH ADVENTURE!!!

Suzy Q's were my favorite in the sixties and early seventies. You know how Apollo bought them for 410 million? Smuckers had to pay 5.6 billion. That means Apollo made 5 billion 200 million dollars. The bastards have nothing to do with baking just a bunch of greedy ass investors. At least Smuckers is a stable brand able to do Hostess a good turn.

Twinkies are gross. They’re spongy and oily and not very flavorful. I don’t understand why everyone loves them so much. Little Debbie is the better junky snack cake baker.

They did die. What came back does not taste like it did. A bit smaller, darker, greasier, and the filling is not right either. One bite, and it was just toss the rest away. RIP Twinkie. The world is darker since you left....

Unfortunately, they don't make Suzie Q's anymore. I loved those things

Companies should not mess around with a fat man's emotions

Suzy Q’s and Olympia beer… what a great combo. 🙋🏼

Hostess is good, but it's got nothing on Vachon. Ah caramel, Joe Louis, and Billots!

Mark McGwire!

How about a history of Sara Lee? "Nobody does't like Sara Lee"!

Mmm, anyone in the mood for some HoHums and DoDos? (Props to anyone who gets the reference)

I didn't hear you mention anything about hostess pudding pies in that's what I want back

Ah yeah the thing people are obsessed with especially in zombieland 😂

The recipes have obviously changed over the decades. The products taste nothing like they did when I was a kid. There used to be much more filling and some actual fruit in the pies

First is still best, long live the Twinkie!

I like snowballs but im from Texas so im all about that lil debbie. 🎉🎉❤

They ruined hostess, the dings now taste like wax.

I'm always liked swiss rolls and nutter butters! Yum :D

Twinkies with mustard, in a classic scene of The Deerhunter.

Shamrock flavor is mint chocolate

Little Debbie cloud cakes > Twinkie

I would have been so disappointed if Woody and Zombieland were not mentioned!

You guys should do Drake's cakes

Anne Catherine Emmerich shout out?!

Is Hostess still related to Wonder Bread?n