IIRC, back in the 60s Hostess and the other national brands advertised the heck out of their various products as suitable breakfast for kids. Even Hohos = chocolate covered devil’s food individual cakes about the size & shape of hockey pucks.
Some parents fell for the advertising. Mine did, at least some. Not that a big bowl of Cap’n Crunch or Froot Loops was any healthier once you looked closely.
When I go to NJ I have to bring back some Tastykake products, especially the unglazed pies, which are unlike any other fast food individually packaged pies. You can get some Tastykake products up in the Boston area, but not the ones I crave.
There used to be a Hostess old/expired store near us. We would buy dozens of loaves of stale bread and feed it a loaf at a time to the fish in our pond. A woman I knew would fill her car with snack cakes and have her handyman unwrap and take wheelbarrow loads into the woods where she had a bear feeding station.
Those would be DingDongs. Hohos are cylindrical.
There’s an Entenmann’s Outlet Store in the town where my parents live and my mother will go there every week or two. (Growing up, I particularly loved the pound cake.)
Have you had Tastykake cinnamon rolls recently? They’re surprisingly bad. I have no idea how they make the icing so weirdly gelatinous. They’re more like Honey Buns. If I wanted a Honey Bun, I would buy a Honey Bun. Which I don’t.
And what shape is a D’oh! ?? 
Actually, I’ve never had their cinnamon rolls. Apparently my father’s favorites were the chocolate cupcakes, butterscotch krimpets, and jelly krimpets, so those three were the only ones we ever got, and subsequently the only ones I’ve ever had.
Atlanta-area Kroger stores now carry Tastykakes, but this only started in the past three or four years. I had read about Tastykake in Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels (which are set in Trenton, New Jersey), so I noticed when they showed up in Kroger. I tried a few, and wasn’t impressed. Nothing to compare to Krispy Kreme.
This is one dish that many folks do, but very few do it well. When I find a restaurant that does, I’m a regular there.
Oh man, my mother’s version was divine. I learned how to make it, and it was simple compared to her (even better) fried chicken. Dang, now I kind of need to make chicken fried steak, because I don’t live in Oklahoma City, and don’t plan to drive there soon. There, they have Del Rancho, which is a nice approximation of her chicken fried steak on a sammich. It’s almost worth the drive from DFW to OKC, and my brother can just about call me up there at will by promising that we’ll be eating from there. Heck, I’ll move him if Del Rancho is promised as the meal at the end, and I bought a house because it decreased the chances I’d have to move again - I hate moving.
Thanks for the reassurance that some kind of tortillas of convenience are available in most places to all who have responded. I’ve related to some of my Mexican co-workers my trials of making a decent home made tortilla. Their reaction is usually in the neighborhood of “You know you can buy tortillas, right?” My response is usually similar to, “Ya can’t get decent ones everywhere!” Back when I learned to make them, your options were Mission and nothing else in most stores in Texas. Mission are a serviceable brand of tortillas, but I would never have considered them “good”, not even as a child. Angel Martinez’s mom spoiled me before I was in kindergarten.
Heck, my own mother usually fried her own crispy shells. She tried the Old El Paso crispy shells out on the family a few times, but we expressed that it was a pale imitation. To this day my brother and I compare the shells of the “Mom Tacos” we fry.
IIRC I first saw Tastykakes in stores in Illinois back when Hostess disappeared (2012?) and one or two other brands showed up to fill the gap.
Oxford comma was needed.
Mission tortillas are what I keep on hand here in the PNW. Given I’m not a huge fan of corn tortillas, I adore their flour tortillas, and I can get them in everything from the street taco (4-5" diameter, great for pork or fish tacos), clear up to the burrito size (12" dia.) Our stores here are filled with a huge variety of tortillas, and, as some of our local stores have quite expansive sections for the Hispanic folks, there’s sure to be something for every taste.
There’s a place in Estacada, OR, the Old Mill Saloon, that does a most killer chicken fried steak/chicken fried steak sandwich. I don’t even bother to look at the rest of the menu when we go in there, although I’ve had, and the wife always has, different things from their menu, and they’ve all been good.
My hero 
Beans on toast. I suspect it’s also eaten in Australia and New Zealand, and I’m sure some Americans eat it, in the UK it is a totally ordinary food that everyone eats while growing up and occasionally as an adult.
The other day I met a young woman who had grown up in England but had somehow never eaten most English food, including beans on toast.
It’s not? Walmarts in New England carry their products and have for years. I just threw it into the online grocery delivery app and I can at this moment order 11 different Tastykake products.
And of course, other tinned foods are also popular ‘on toast’, in the UK at least (and maybe just with kids). Spaghetti on toast, even tinned tomatoes on toast 
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Missed edit window, but wanted to add baked beans as a breakfast item, either as part of a fry up or, as above, on toast, seems to be a particularly British thing.
Me too. Growing up in Queens, I thought every supermarket had an appetizing department. Lox you can get but sable or whitefish, forget it.
Not to mention the horrible things people in the sticks do to pastrami.