# Showdown: Drake's Cakes vs. Hostess

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showdown-drakes-cakes-vs-hostess/517202>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 11, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showdown-drakes-cakes-vs-hostess/517202 "2009-11-11T18:07:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showdown-drakes-cakes-vs-hostess/517202/21 "2009-11-14T00:23:34Z")

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> [@jellyblue](#):
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> I haven’t noticed that brand.

They’ll be in your local mercados and supermercados. The company that owns them is a subsidiary of Bimbo.

Incidentally, Bimbo has been on a buying spree in recent years - they now own such iconic baked goods brands as Thomas’ and Entenmann’s.

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**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showdown-drakes-cakes-vs-hostess/517202/22 "2009-11-14T01:16:05Z")

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Ah, I like the ingredients I won’t be reading to be in English, not Spanish ;-).

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showdown-drakes-cakes-vs-hostess/517202/23 "2009-11-14T01:20:46Z")

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> [@bouv](#):
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> Drake’s Coffee Cake trumps all.

You misspelled “pwns”. We’re not playing bridge or euchre here. This is serious RL stuff. Drake’s Coffee Cake totally fucking pwns. Like, headshot pwns, not just regular pwns.

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**Author:** ![Haunted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/898d66/32.png) [@Haunted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showdown-drakes-cakes-vs-hostess/517202/24 "2009-11-14T01:33:38Z")

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I agree with those who said the Drake’s are very dry. Seriously, you can’t even swallow a Devil Dog without something to drink.

I’m not sure I would eat any of this stuff nowadays, but I definitely used to prefer Hostess. Their products were always the least dry.

FYI, I’ve lived on the East Coast since I was four, mostly near DC.

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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showdown-drakes-cakes-vs-hostess/517202/25 "2009-11-14T02:02:28Z")

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> [@jayjay](#):
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> This. Drake’s and Hostess can only dream of making stuff as good as TastyKake.

TastyKake once had a limited output of a, well, snack cake. It was coconut with a mango, or possibly guava filling. I guess it was aimed at the Latin market. These things were the food of the angels, but they disappeared off the shelves shortly after and were never seen again.☹

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