In my opinion, the single-serve size of Little Debbie Apple Pies, the one they mostly sell in truck stops, is the best single snack from either company. The Hostess pies just can’t compete, especially since they have such a small amount of apple filling.
The best single item of this type was the (R.I.P.) Drakes coffee cake. The Hostess one isn’t bad, but needs more cinnamon topping. Sara Lee has had a really good coffee cake out too, but I haven’t been able to find it anywhere in the last 3 months.
Butterscotch Krimpets. Battle over. Other snack cakes need not apply.
Tastykake also makes an awesome (for a prepackaged snack) pie - a proper baked pie, not one of the fried sugar glazed monstrosities that Hostess tries to pass off as pie.
And damn you all for bringing the subject up - now I’m jonesing for some Krimpets and blueberry pies. Anyone know if I can find some in Phoenix?
actually Walmart sells tastykakes items …their peanut butter mini muffin isn’t bad and theres a few others weve tried
but I miss bargain Wednesdays at the hostess thrift store …where I would clear out the shelf of orange cupcakes every week …the manager put a limit on how many I bought …lets just say it worked out to 2 packs a day…but I bought them once a week …
My favorites were Hostess Susie-Q’s (before Hostess reorganized) and Little Debbie Nutty Bars (Buddies), but only the standard sized ones (The large ones were just too much for me).
Why do we have to choose? Apart from selling snacks, the products each company is known for have little or no overlap. It’s almost like having a thread called Ford vs Schwinn.
Some time after the bankruptcy of Hostess I started to see some Hostess products marketed under the Tastykake brand name. I have no idea how that arrangement works. I was living in Tucson around the time, and went into a supermarket and saw a display with the Tastykake logo. Like a moth to a flame, I was drawn over the the display with visions of Krimpets in my head only to be confronted with a bunch of Twinkies and Hostess Cupcakes in Tastykake wrappers.
Bottom line: there are a number of “Tatstykake” branded items out there that are definitely not the tings that Tastykake aficionados are looking for. Unless you are talking about the peanut butter Kandy Kake there is not such thing as a true Tastykake peanut butter mini muffin.
I will second that, I’ve never heard of Tastykakes peanut butter mini muffins and as I said in an earlier post I grew up on Tastykakes. I still live in the area where they are very popular.
Drakes Cakes. I remember them from when I grew up in NJ I the 60’s. A few years ago I found the peanut butter filled chocolate cakes here in Arkansas. I guess I remembered them better than they were.
Little Debbie - meh. Sawdust and sugar.
About two or three years ago, Kroger here in Atlanta started carrying Tastykakes. I recognized the name from all Janet Evanovich novels I’ve read. (Don’t judge.) I bought one and was … whelmed. 'Salright, but nothing I’d travel far to get. Perhaps I was eating a knock-off Tastykake.
Little Debbies, just for their oatmeal creme pies and the chocolate cream sandwich-y thingies, too. And the Nutty Bars. But when it comes to fruit pies, neither Little Debbie, Hostess, nor Tastykake hold a candle to Krispy Kreme. (Although the last one I ate, about a year and a half ago, was overly sweet and a little stale, so maybe they’ve tanked, too.)
