What did they do to Hostess Fruit Pies?

[aruvqan]

@burpo_the_wonder_mutt

^ My pleasure; it seems they use palm oil and sometimes soybean oil for shortening–at least for the pies. If you go to the Walmart website and type in the different types of pies, there’s an ingredients list near the bottom of the listing, like this. As for your bracketed comment above, I’d keep that away from the Tastykake advertising department, if you know what I mean.

Thanks =)

My primary finds it amusing that I will eat off my forbidden list in that manner - he jokes that if it makes the whole bowel prep more endurable, who is he to stop me [and he points out that if I start getting anything other than the runs to stop as allergies can change and get worse. Since I always have an epi pen on hand, not too worried and husband is trained EMS =) ]

@elfkin477

Are they better now? Last time I had a Susy-Q was 6 or 7 years ago and it mostly was like eating a faintly chocolate flavored sponge.

I had a ho-ho about 5 or so years ago, and was very disappointed, the cake was vaguely tan rather than a good chocolate and wimpy flavored and the chocolate coating was mostly that nasty waxy chocolate. Nothing like what I remembered.

I would much rather take the time to make the cake and buttercream frosting and make my own ‘jelly roll’ - it is sort of how I start my buche de noels anyways =) [properly buches de noel, who cares =) ]