A Farewell DingDong

Farewell 

then

Hostess Brands - 

America's 

Twentieth-Century 

national baker. 

Some knew

you as

Continental Baking 

or

Interstate Bakeries.

Others will 

remember your 

WonderBread (Indeed!!)

or 

Homepride 

(the one upon which Madison Ave. 

lusciously poured liquid butter);

Though it is the child within me who

most fondly recalls your 

DevilDogs,

Ho-Ho's

Suzy-Q's

Twinkies, 

or the most awesome-of-all

DingDongs,

which my mom never forget 

to put in my lunchbox.

(NB: Hostess Cakes were NEVER as good as Tasty Baking's various offerings, though DingDongs (RingDings) came close...)

(NBB: Sno-Balls were just plain alien: pink rubbery glutinous coconut-studded shell around a VW-Beetle-shaped cake filling with bland white creme inside. They were generally avoided, and traded at big discounts in the secondary school lunch-room market )

(NBBB: RingDings and DingDongs were best when frozen and eaten straight out of the freezer; RingDings were to be avoided in summer lunch boxes at all costs as their chocolate shells were prone to melting, making it impossible to remove the aluminium-foil wrapper)