Hostess Brands
Reviews and Complaints

Bought a package of Hostess Donettes, best by Mar 23 2022, J010721000 007, 18:52 7. For the first time ever, it contained 5 donettes versus the normal 6.

Was bought at Harvest Foods, Coulee Dam WA. About 3 weeks ago.

Thanks much.

Jim Catlow

516 Banks Ave

Grand Coulee WA 99133

[protected]@hotmail.com

I have been purchasing these donettes for a long time. For the past year I noticed that they started tasting stale even though I was eating them far from the expiration date. I switched to Tastykake mini-donuts and was pleasantly surprised at the moistness. I buy my groceries from Publix via Instacart. I always order Tastykake now but they are usually out and Hostess is my replacement choice. On 2/20/22 I ordered 4 bags of Tastykake (bogo) and was unhappy to receive Hostess as Publix was once again out of Tastykake. The expiration date is April 11, 2022 and once again they were so stale that I barely enjoyed them. I don't know what Hostess has done to its recipe but you need to fix this staleness problem. How can you call yourselves "America's #1 donut"? You have now lost a customer as I will not choose Hostess as my replacement if Publix is out of Tastykake; I will choose 'refund.'

The numbers on the bag are: J [protected] 036 06:38 D1

Purchased a box of Hostess Ding Dongs at local DG yesterday 2-19-22 around 3pm. Husband ate one last night and said there was no filling in it. Could have been a fluke. He ate another today and no filling either. I Opened another and cut into 4th’s nope no filling at all. When taking the pictures I also noticed the best by date had expired by about 3 weeks.

I opened the bag and on a donut is a dark brown bug or poop baked on top of it. It is approx 1 inch in length. I purchased it at dollar general in Byram, MS on 2-19-22, approx 3pm.

Just wanted to send some pics of the latest bag of your Hostess donuts we purchased from Wallyworld (Walmart). These must have been from a Friday afternoon shift. My wife did eat some of these before she realized just how bad the donuts were at the bottom. We love these little donuts, especially broken in half and dunked in milk. We just think the quality control is missing something. Thank you and have a Blessed Day. I also sent these by text to the 1-800 number. that one piece is just a big wad of chocolate!

This is the 3rd box I have gotten when I open the wrapper it had a bad smell an the taste bad an spit it out I sent picture of date an lot number it is only on ding dong all other products or good My husband loves them

Purchased a box of HoHos Feb. 3, 2022... Strack and Van Til store, Schererville, IN 46375...(expiration date Mar 02, 2022) Ate one Feb 17, spit it out... it was stale and dried out. tried another. same result...number on box is :

I [protected]...

Purchased two boxes of lemon cupcakes and a box of cream cheese coffee cakes on 2-9-20, from Butler Walmart store. Butler Missouri.

I can't believe how terrible they are they are just plain to see how we all feel about. Small and tasteless . Both of them and they were not out of date, just hard like a old cupcake.

They are dry and hard with very little flavor in the cake and like hard candy for frosting. This just made us decide hostess no longer has quality and definitely not for the price spent for us and grandkids. We are limited income and to water this much for so little. Shame on you for lack of quality control. Never again.

I purchased a box of Apple Snack Size Fruit Pies inside the package I found an empty package fully sealed. The snacks are very good but was surprised by one being completely empty. The box bar code is [protected] it was purchased at a grocery store in Brooklyn Michigan on February 14th.

I recently bought a pack of zingers. Got to work and realized that the zinger was very hard (not even able to break) thought that it was the only one in the pack this way. Got home and check the rest all the zingers was this way. The packs looked as if they weren’t sealed properly. Wasn’t able to return to the store due to when I buy snack cakes I place them in a snack bowl to give me more cabinet space.

The photo of the mini muffins blueberry featured on the outside of the box is a poor representation of the actual product found on inside. I purchased a box of said product on Thursday, February 10, 2022 from my local Dollar General in Richmond, VA (bar code [protected]). The fluffy-looking, light, and airy muffin displayed on the box was hardly comparable to the dark, flat, overly moist to almost wet, heavy-tasting muffins inside. So very disappointing. Please consider how Hostess can improve the muffin, or whether or not to continue making them. Meanwhile, I will discard these. Thank you for the opportunity to share this complaint. Hostess has many great products, but this is not one of them.

I bit into a vanilla ding dong tonight ..It was like I bit into a bar of soap..It was awful and I had to brush my teeth and mouthwash to try to get the taste out of my mouth ...It was actually very frightening...The taste was so strong I was scared thinking is this soap.or poison...Feb 12 2022 1:00 am

I opened the box and there were only 9 instead of 10. I had an empty wrapper full of air instead of the snack cake. It was extremely disappointing to find that I was shorted a snack. I have been a fan my whole life and I really look forward to my treat. I purchased the box at Walmart in st.Helens OR on Monday February 7th 2022

We literally buy this product twice a week due to the freshness of the individual packs. On this particular box we ended up with two packs of donuts with only two Donuts instead of three. Just wanted y'all to know about it. We will still continue to buy this product but wanted to inform you of the u p c code because maybe this was a machine malfunction.

I recently purchased a Family size box of Hostess Ding Dongs for the predicted snowfall in my are. Within the box there were some Ding Dongs and empty pouches with no Ding Dongs. I did enjoy the ones that were in their pouch, this snow is going longer than expected. I am attaching pictures for your use. Below I have pictures of the empty pouch, box scan, receipt and box size.

Thank you, L Jackson

I purchased a box of 8 Hostess cupcakes from my local Fry's Food store week of January 17th 2022. Three of the cupcakes were were open on one side of pacaging and were hard as rocks. I threw them out.

I bought a box of zingers that where very stale. The icing was very hard and the cake was dry.I checked the date and it was good. I buy alot of hostess cakes zingers are my favorite. I was very disappointed that they where stale. I would appreciate a response in replacing my zingers. I know you all will hold true to the hostess brand and do what is best.

THE Hostess powdered donuts I purchased on 01/21/22 were really hard and dried out.

I bought a box of Ho Hoes and one of the wrappers did not have a Ho Ho in it. so there were supposed to be 10 in the box and I only got 9.

[protected]:29 best by 2-8-2022

Product was stale and dried out! No best if used by date on packaging. Purchased on January 20th 2022. The only code found on the packaging is:
I [protected] 264X