On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:10:05 -0400, Boron Elgar
> wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:58:41 -0600, Janet B >
>wrote:
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>>On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:01:19 -0400, Boron Elgar
> wrote:
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>>>Hostess is the baking company that makes cupcakes that have a white
>>>swirl in the hard chocolate frosting and a white filling inside, as
>>>well as Twinkies, Snowballs and Hostess fruit pies.
>>>
>>>When I was a kid, the darn things were actually quite yummy. I have
>>>not had them in 45+ years so Lord only knows what is in them now.I
>>>probably do not even want to know.
>>>
>>>http://hostesscakes.com/products
>>
>>We had both Twinkies and Cupcakes after they were brought back. They
>>are half the size, the cake tends to be dry, the filling is not nice.
>>Occasionally, when we would be getting gas for the truck, I used to
>>go into the convenience store and get a package of Hostess cupcakes.
>>The filling, frosting and cake were still good but half the size of
>>those in our younger years. Not so any more.
>>Janet US
>
>
>They used to have little chocolate covered donuts that has a topknot
>swirl of the white "cream" filling under the chocolate. Six to a pack,
>as I recall - that is how small they were. I *loved* those things.
>
>One of their bakeries was in or near Detroit and they took customer
>complaints very seriously back in the ancient times. A neighbor's mom
>wrote them that she had gotten a pack of those donuts and the cream
>filling was missing on two donuts. Someone from Hostess arrived with
>a huge case of the things. We neighborhood kids feasted for days.

The good old days
Janet US