On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:50:01 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2015-09-22 1:10 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>Some companies are better than others at dealing with problems. Years
>ago I bought a Vachon Cream Horn at a local store. When I bit into it I
>noticed a greenish hue in the cream filling. I spit it out and
>examined the item closer and noticed a fuzzy white texture on the
>chocolate icing. I wrote to Vachon and explained what I found on their
>product. A couple weeks later I opened my mailbox and found a box with a
>dozen butter tarts. They were stale and smashed. They tried.
>
>I had much better luck with E.D. Smith when I complained about biting
>into a cherry stone in a jar of their sour cherry jam. They sent me a
>nice letter and enclosed a couple dozen coupons for an assortment of
>their products. They had coupons for jams, ketchup, chili sauce, juices
>and pie filling. That was much better than some squashed stale tarts.


I *love* sour cherry jam. Hard to find these days.