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ABC (already been chewed) doughnuts

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Hostess Brands - ABC (already been chewed) doughnuts
Bought a few packages of donettes from dollar general on 5/5/22 in Bath,NY. Strawberry cheesecake and chocolate covered. After returning home and deciding we have waited long enough to eat them, we dove in... oh what a mistake it was... The strawberry cheesecake had a...
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Hornell, New York
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Purchased some chocolate doughnuts and they tasted like poison

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Hostess Brands - Purchased some chocolate doughnuts and they tasted like poison
These chocolate doughnuts taste like perfume or some kind of chemicals are on them. They need to be recalled or discontinued before someone gets really sick or they could die.

User's recommendation: Be careful.

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#3797439 Review #3797439 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Location
Denver, Colorado
Pros
  • Cake part too dry
  • Used to be delicious
Loss
$3
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Zingers Taste like Twinkies with raspberry and coconut

1.0
Just a question wanted to know when the change from zingers cake like snack two covered old Twinkies

User's recommendation: Don’t buy.

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#3754004 Review #3754004 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Location
Melrose Park, Illinois
Product
Hostess Brands Zingers Cake
Cons
  • New recipes taste bad go back to original recipes
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Quality and taste of the Hostess Cupcaks

I have to say that the taste, texture, size of the Hostess Cupcake has really changed over the years. They used to be the best way back when. Now it is like eating a diet desert. They are almost half the size they used to be and just are not the same. Cost more and less quality. There is a brand they sell at walnut that taste like the old ones back in the day. They are not called Hostess Cup cake girl.
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#3679068 Review #3679068 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Location
San Ramon, California
Pros
  • Used to be considered a quality product
  • Way the brand used to taste
Cons
  • Did not like the size they are way smaller than they use to be
Preferred solution
Make a real cupcake like you did in 1919
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The current quality and taste of my favorite Chocolate Ding *** has changed dramatically in the last few months, I just bought two more boxes with the hopes that they would have returned to the way

2.0
As I stated above, whatever you've changed in the recipe for my chocolate Ding *** has completely ruined them.They are now bland, not nearly as rich, & chocolaty, & now smaller and don't even have as much vanilla filling as before.I no longer even enjoy them. Hope you go back to the way they were.

User's recommendation: Just enjoy your Hostess treats.

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#3630610 Review #3630610 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Pros
  • Kept the plant open in emporia
  • Used to be considered a quality product
Cons
  • Cake part way too dry
  • Changed the recipe
  • Want previous recipe back
Loss
$45
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I bought a pack of powdered dinettes this evening was so disappointed because they are stale. I paid almost $5 for them. They do mot have a best used by date anywhere on the package.

1.0
These donettes are hard and dry. The flavor seems to be ok but the donut itself is not very satisfying.

User's recommendation: I went with the Hostess brand but wish I had of nit.

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#3576911 Review #3576911 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Location
New Deal, Texas
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Coupon for free bag of dinettes would be nice.
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Short on quanity

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I bought a box of the ding *** it was a family pack of 16. Opened the box to find it only contained 12 and 1 with nothing but a pocket of air no cake in it at all. It was a major jip
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#3536763 Review #3536763 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Location
Louisville, Kentucky
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$3
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Compliant

I was wrote up without proper cause I a new employee i love my job I work hard and always on time prompt
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#3525893 Review #3525893 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Location
Opelika, Alabama
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Harassment by a supervisor Columbus Ga plant

Being harassed by supervisor Trixty Herndon every day has talk to Am twice nothing has been done about it and it keeps getting worse
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Covington, Georgia

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Expired cakes on shelf.

Hostess Brands - Expired cakes on shelf.
Hostess Brands - Expired cakes on shelf.
I buy 6-8 boxes of the coffee cakes a week and I usually get them at Kroger so the last several times I have bought them they have been stale, I was kinda getting a little disappointed but let it go, so yesterday I bought 2 boxes and when I opened them and got one well...
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#3515450 Review #3515450 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Location
Knoxville, Tennessee
Pros
  • Great cakes
Cons
  • Small dize
  • Check dates
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Never got paid for the three weeks in which I worked I never got paid

Hostess Brands - Never got paid for the three weeks in which I worked I never got paid
As well as Prologistix temp agency. Identity theft in a police report to support it unauthorized transactions

User's recommendation: Be careful who you work for don’t be dedicated to them for they are not dedicated do you.

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#3504368 Review #3504368 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Location
Houston, Texas
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Never got paid

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Hostess Brands - Never got paid
Update by user Apr 21, 2022

Once again unresolved. Period!!!!!

This is a very hard pill to swallow. And stop making me feel like I have to take one for the team I worked hard and not I did not get a dime literally not one dime for my hard work in my pocket anyway.

Update by user Apr 21, 2022

A year to date and everyone is...

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#3504250 Review #3504250 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Pros
  • Taste is still the same is a definite positive
Cons
  • Nothing positive at all
Loss
$1000
Preferred solution
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Unacceptable

Hostess Brands - Unacceptable
Hostess Brands - Unacceptable
Update by user Apr 02, 2022

They offered coupons because I didnt have a sample of the donut for them to test

Original review posted by user Mar 03, 2022
Just a PSA to anyone that would happen to buy the blueberry donuts from hostess.... We bought these on Saturday. Opened one today and this was what was inside it. Thought it was mold but when we broke it in half baby spiders came out! (Thank God I was at work ) Even had a web built in between the middle.
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#3379433 Review #3379433 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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Terre Haute, Indiana
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Looking for a specific cake

a specific cake says its being sold but I haven't found it anywhere. I been eating this cake since a child. it disappeared in 2013 and then resurfaced some years later..I'm requesting that this item be place in more stores and I'm also asking for hostess to come back.
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#3319653 Review #3319653 is a subjective opinion of poster.
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New Rochelle, New York
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Old and hard

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Hostess Brands - Old and hard
Good until Feb 14 2022 but product is stale. And now I have to add more letters to this section to even submit!! REALLY!!
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#3250421 Review #3250421 is a subjective opinion of poster.
Location
Tampa, Florida
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Taste of garlic?!

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I bought a three pack of Zingers and it tasted like garlic and it's disgusting I think I also tasted chemical's plastic and mostly garlic but it smells like regular chocolate cake
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