I am DYING for a Hostess cherry pie

My fat daughter loves cherry pie! I don’t know where she developed a hankering for that. Who eats such heavy fare in June in Arizona?

Is your name Bobby Hill?

Those companies were taken over and their stuff no longer tastes as good.

I remember buying similar brands at a local gas station. Enjoyed unheated with an ice-cold glass of milk!

They probably will not taste the way you remember them. I don't know what happened to the Hostess products.

The new pies are not nearly as good as the old ones when they came in wax paper packages.

OP, you type like a FAT WHORE

These aren’t the Cherry ones OP, but the texture of the crust and the filling reminds me of Hostess Pies, when they dame in wax paper and had fruit in the pie filling.

I can taste it just by looking at the picture. There was something about the outside crust with the sugar glaze that really smacked.

I want to judge OP for having shitty taste but I like Twinkies.

Do they come in Tuna?

I preferred the apple ones, but yeah. I don't think I've eaten one of those since college, but they were uniquely delicious in a completely trashy way. That and the "pie" from McDonald's.

Back in the '60s when I was in school, the Hostess Berry Pie was my favorite. That purple wax paper wrapper ...

I never liked them -- ugh. Disgusting.

But I come from the area where it was all Tastycakes, all the time. They too were the best when they were wrapped in wax paper.

Now all that stuff sucks.

"Those companies were taken over and their stuff no longer tastes as good."

"They probably will not taste the way you remember them. I don't know what happened to the Hostess products."

Another company guilty of this: Entenmann's. Not only the taste, but much smaller portions at much higher prices.

“Those companies were taken over and their stuff no longer tastes as good."

Except for Little Debbie, still privately owned by the McKee family. Their stuff is still deadly but good.

Chattanooga’s other snack cake empire - Moon Pies - is also still privately owned.

Little Debbie tastes like you just guzzled a bottle of corn syrup. And Moon Pies are worse.

Tell me you're a Southerner without telling me you're a Southerner.

Is that like a Pop Tart OP?

R17: “Tell me you're a Southerner without telling me you're a Southerner.”

Dear, you seem to live in your childhood in the 50s. Little Debbie and Moon Pies are on the shelves right here in Philly. And LD, especially, is muscling out Tastykakes.

Growing up in California in the '50s and '60s, we never heard of Little Debbie, Entenmann's, Drake's Cakes, TastyKake, etc.

Hostess and sometimes Dolly Madison or stuff from large local bakers were pretty much the only game in town.

Those used to be so good. But that was many years ago.

According to this couple that taste tested a bunch of brands of cherry pie, Mrs. Freshley's is the best with Tastykake as a runner up. They say Mrs. Freshley's is available at Dollar Tree.

Hostess pies were better, now unavailable to me, but the local TastyKake version isn't bad. My favorite is cherry(sometimes there's even a cherry or two in them 🍒)🤫 But more than occasionally some of them obviously get stuck when going through the sugar glazing machine and come out with a crust so thick with sugar it's almost pure white and not very tasty. A glass of milk DOES improve the eating enjoyment, as r4 mentioned.

I just Googled Mrs Freshley's. Here are her creme-filled cakes. *giggle*