# Oh, Lil'Debbie what HAVE you done? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588 "2020-06-24T00:26:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/21 "2020-06-24T12:23:14Z")
The answer is obvious: more sugar. Since Little Debbie is mostly sugar, anyway, you probably didn’t notice. They are awful snack cakes. Alas, it looks like Hostess has gone their death by sugar path since they rebooted. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/22 "2020-06-24T12:28:19Z")
And she’s recognizable. [![](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r9dxQv3VqNs/WMwPytfXrYI/AAAAAAAA9kc/hJ1SO--YKUMBH6NTSDBAlygeBYiuDMRfACLcB/s640/little-debbie2.png) ](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r9dxQv3VqNs/WMwPytfXrYI/AAAAAAAA9kc/hJ1SO--YKUMBH6NTSDBAlygeBYiuDMRfACLcB/s640/little-debbie2.png) ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/23 "2020-06-24T12:29:04Z")
I didn’t try Lilttle Debbies til I moved South in the 80’s. I ate one and thought, _meh…_ You see, I grew up around Philly—Home of TastyKake! Comparing Lil’ Debbies to TastyKake is like comparing wagyu steak to a rancid sea slug hamburger. Given the choice of a TastyKake or spending the night with a horny porn star, I’d say, _gimme that Peanut Butter Kandy Kake, kiddo!_ ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/24 "2020-06-24T13:41:57Z")
I never did care for Li’l Debbie or Hostess, or any of the knockoffs. I’m weird. I don’t like the white frosting “goop.” I don’t like Oreos for the same reason. Don’t hate me. I have my quirks. Like I’m sitting here drinking my AM coffee, eating a pop tart. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/25 "2020-06-24T13:51:37Z")
Years ago, I heard or read somewhere that a poll was given to doctors about what the most unhealthy food was that they could think of. Answer: Oreo filling. I believe it…like Crisco frosting on cake. I never liked it either. But the Debbie “Nutty Bars” are decent, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/26 "2020-06-24T14:27:05Z")
When I was a teenager, school lunch cost a dollar, but snack cakes were 25 cents. My mama gave me a dollar every day and I’d buy a snack cake for lunch and save the rest of the money for cigarettes. These days snack cakes and cigs both make me sick! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/27 "2020-06-24T17:43:42Z")
Little Debbie Nutty Bars! Stop for gas, pick one of those up for $0.50. Can’t beat it! I have been addicted to those things for longer than most of you have been alive [/grumpy-old-man] When the “100 Calorie” craze started up, even Little Debbie got into that with the Nutty Bars. Took a look at the packaging. - Original Nutty Bars: 1 serving = 2 cookies. Total Calories: 300. 6 packages per box (12 cookies total). Total weight: 6 ounces (not sure about the weight bit exactly). Cost: $1.29 - 100 Calorie Nutty Bars: 1 serving = 1 cookie. Total Calories: 100. 12 packages per box (12 cookies total). Total weight: 4 ounces. Cost: $2.39 So, they took THE EXACT SAME INGREDIENTS, THE SAME RECIPE, THE SAME MANUFACTURING; gave you 1/3 less product and charged you almost double. Yeah, I don’t think people are quite that dumb. Didn’t last long. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/28 "2020-06-24T17:49:01Z")
Oh, my. We Americans and our consumerisms. I got one box of ‘oatmeal cream’ cookies in the freezer. I’ll have to hide and eat one at my snack time. Nope. Not sharing with the Grandwrex. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/29 "2020-06-24T18:35:11Z")
The Nutty Bars are redonk, as the kids say. At my office (back when I was actually in one) we had a vending machine that had knock off Nutty Bars but they were way not as good. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/30 "2020-06-24T19:18:01Z")
I never had a Little Debbie until I moved to Georgia back in '84. Until I got out of high school, we always had Hostess stuff from the day-old Hostess store in the house except for a couple of years when the Dolly Madison store existed. Fruit pies kept in the freezer overnight would still be cool at lunchtime when I was corn detasseling. Hot work, that was. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/31 "2020-06-25T00:12:48Z")
@kaylasdad, I love the Easter ones too. They are surprising less carbs than alot of the others. That whipped filling is mostly air it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/32 "2020-06-27T14:48:49Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Little Debbie Nutty Bars were a treat for a little longer than other sweets. I don’t think I’ve have any of their products in 20 years but I might be convinced to try if a Nutty Bar showed up on my doorstep. I used to take one to lunch every day during my summer job when I was in college. The last time I bought some, probably more that 5 years ago, I didn’t enjoy them as much. So the last time I saw them on the shelf I passed them up. Used the luggage space for Tastykakes. ---
**Author:** ![LegendHasit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/legendhasit/32/8246_2.png) [@LegendHasit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegendHasit)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/33 "2020-06-30T16:54:01Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Original Nutty Bars I forgot about the Nutty Bars! Those go into the freezer, too! ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/34 "2020-06-30T19:22:42Z")
Hey, Lil’ Debbie, what have you done? Hey, Lil’ Debbie, who’s the only one? Hey, Lil’ Debbie, shotgun! It’s a nice day for a white wedding. It’s a nice day to start again. [Grimace musically, and start the guitar riff.] ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/35 "2020-06-30T19:31:08Z")
I just remembered some lines from later in the song, that are actually appropriate for this topic: > There is nothin’ fair in this world > There is nothin’ safe in this world > And there’s nothin’ sure in this world > And there’s nothin’ pure in this world > Look for something left in this world > Start again ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/36 "2020-06-30T21:53:53Z")
Truer words were never sang.😌 ---
**Author:** ![shstrang98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@shstrang98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shstrang98)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/37 "2020-07-02T14:55:34Z")
Some LB stuff is superior to Hostess. The only decent Hostess stuff is their small donuts and cinnamon coffee cakes. A lot of LB stuff tastes like wax but a lot of their stuff doesn’t. Those caramel cookie bars are better than Twix. Their small “birthday cake” snacks are outstanding. Most of their other stuff sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Ynnad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/38 "2020-07-03T02:27:46Z")
Thanks guys. Now I will never again be able to listen to the song _White Wedding_ properly for the rest of my life. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/39 "2020-07-03T02:35:15Z")
Compared with what Stanley Kubrik did with “Singing in the Rain” and “The Mickey Mouse Club” theme song, this is nothing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588/40 "2020-07-08T00:15:50Z")
Thanks to this thread I was reminded of Tastykakes and went to Amazon to see if I could mail order them. The answer is yes! Also, they offer a set of 2 boxes of butterscotch krimpets and 2 boxes of peanut butter Tandy cakes. Perfect! They arrived promptly and no, I’m not going to share how much of them I’ve been eating every night 🧁 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-lildebbie-what-have-you-done/912588.md?page=3)