Hostess Brands
Reviews and Complaints

As a strict vegetarian I would like to enjoy Hostess food products, particularly Twinkies, but cannot due to there being Beef Fat in the ingredients. There are millions of vegan and vegetarian people in the world now so products like this need to get with the times. People like me will avoid buying Hostess cakes for this reason and that is bad for business.

Is it really necessary to put Beef Fat in the cakes? Can't Hostess make cakes suitable for vegetarians?

Firstly I feel it is a terrible shame that Beef Fat is used in the ingredients. That means the torturing of animals went into this product. Secondly, the longer Hostess doesn't acknowledge vegans and vegetarians the more they are losing out on selling even more cakes to a wider audience so that everyone can enjoy their products while they benefit from a larger income by promoting vegetarianism.

This is the 21st century and many companies like Hostess are still producing foods without a care for the lactose intolerance people, vegetarians and vegans, etc., and at the end of the day this will only result in bad business.

I purchased the box of 8 donuts and they taste like...I don't know what but they are horrible!... the expiration date is good 11/27/2019. I am very disappointed. I can't and won't even let my children eat them...they taste like chemicals and I am upset that I wasted my money like that! $4my not be a lot but it was mine and had I known that I couldn't trust the fact that the package says freshly wrapped... I would have kept my money 🙁🙁

I visited Walgreens last night in Biscayne Blvd and much needed bread for my 2 y/o coz he loves eating 🍞 and egg.
My son refused to eat the second bite of his bread and egg, I thought he was just being fuzzy, however, when my wife tried the bread, she said OMG this is stale, I immediately checked the expiration date to make sure, " I bought it on 11/17/2019, bread expiration 12/26/2019! I thought to myself WTF, why did I buy bread from Walgreens, " just cos it was too late and Walgreens was the nearest. Hate the bread, I need by $3 back.

I bought these at walmart in shelbyville kentucky. They are the hostess donettes hot cocoa and marshmallow individually wrapped packages of 3. The expiration date was December 9 2019 and there was an additional number on the package, G [protected]:00. The UPC 8 88109 11430 5. The first few packages I ate were good but one of the packages i recently opened and bit into and it tasted just like nail polish remover and it was not faint, it was very strong. I didnt want anyone to get poisoned by these especially a small child so I decided to write this complaint. Please look into this matter ASAP. Thank you

It is 14 november... My wife bought some hostess donettes powdered mini donuts today.. I open the package and they were disappointing to look at.. Then I took a bite and it was stale.. Grabbed another one.. Stale... Realized all of the donuts are stale and hardly powdered.. I check the expiration date and it says "nov 27 2019 g092321000 266 22:48 d2"

What the hell hostess?!

I recently stopped into circle k this morning as I have every morning and bought a pack of your powered donuts after the first couple bites I could tell something was wrong. They were filled with mold at the end. I am completely disgusted and if allergic to the type of mold will hold y'all accountable of this. If you want pictures I can gladly provide those for you. Your salesman should stay on top of the product 24/7.

I bought these at the gas station and I got to work and opened the bag and immediately put one in my mouth and recognized an odd foul odor and spit the donut out just as fast as I bit it because the taste was even worse than the smell. I cannot even describe the odor that this bag gave off. It was pretty gross. The donut itself couldn't even hold the crunch on it and majority of them were bare and hard as rocks with something gross all over them. I buy a large bag of these one to two time every WEEK. And I've never had them so foul in my life. It wasn't just stale, I can handle that. It was like a cross between stale, moldy, greasy but hard, life sucked out of every single one donut. I'm gonna buy some more after work. But I pray those haven't ruined it for me. I love them but my stomach is in knots over them right now. I'm not one to complain, usually I'd just throw them out. But whatever caused that needs to be addressed. That's how bad.

Just bought some powdered donettes on Nov. 3rd. Freshness date was Dec. 25th but donettes were dry and stale. Bought them from Meijer store in Eastgate/Cincinnati. Never had this happen before but after reading previous complaints it is not just the powdered but also the chocolate covered ones as well. Since this is a continuing problem I don't see myself buying anymore in the near future. And also will probably come up in conversations with co-workers.

My Walmart has been out of these cupcakes for over 2 months now. I have asked the stockers working or customer service to check for me. They fly of the shelf so I don't understand why they would stop ordering them. I love this kind and it makes me really sad. I would have to make a special trip out of town to get them but gas costs to much for me to do that.I have tried other kinds you have or other brands but nothing is similar. Maybe you can get my Walmart to get them in for me.

Hi. Lately, I bought Donettes chocolate; the have been so stale that it crumbled before I can remove them from the bag. I honestly don't think it's fair that I had to throw out 5 or 6 bags of my hard (cash) earnings. The dates are up to date, I don't understand what's going on. Can you please send me a fresh bag, at least 1 of the 5 or 6 that I had to throw out. Please- I have been craving and refuses to eat any other brand. Thank
[protected]@icloud.com

So I bought a box of chocolate Twinkies and when I opened it I was happy to bite into a delicious cream filled cake but there was nothing but cake and then I thought oh this is just one out of 10 I shrugged it off
so the next day I cut one open and to my surprise nothing, there was nothing in the cake probably just a little bit of filling but that was all

Purchased a bunch of Hostess snacks that were on sale, opened up a pack of the Donettes and it smelled like contact adhesive, had a strong chemical smell, took out the first donut in the pack and it smelled, took a bite and it tasted like chemicals, so I spit it out and threw out the donut, took the next one, seemed a little better, but it wasn't, threw the rest of that one out. I shouldn't have eaten any of it, it made me sick. I never buy donuts, I actually picked these up for my son, thank god he didn't eat them.
I couldn't find any new recalls for Hostess products, but I would like to know what chemicals I actually ingested.

Good morning, my name is Linda Morris. I went shopping at my local Fry's store today and i purchased a single 2 pack of your Hostess Chocolate Cupcakes, when i returned home, much to my disappointment, my 2 pack contined only one cupcake. cPhoto included.

Thank you for your attenton onb tis matter and i look forward to a speedy response.

Linda Mrris
7607 E Loan Dr,
Tucson, AZ 85730

Hi my name is Laura Hopkins, I am sending this email for two reason and first I want to thank you for all the amazing ... the cupcakes and devil dogs I think are #1... and you got the twinkies, snowballs, and ding dongs... they are amazing as well. With that in mind when I bought jumbo Donets I was in heaven. I eat wicked healthy but I have a sweet tooth that I have one day to enough one of them. So when I opened the box I smelt this horrible chemical smell... I thought maybe someone sprayed something and then I opened a donut... the smell was worst... I then broke off a piece and smelt it and my eyes and nose felt like fire... I checked the date on it to see maybe they were expired. Nope .. so then I just left on counter and asked my son to smell it maybe it was me... He then said no he said it's the donut mom and it smell like chemical and his eyes were burning also. I decided to finally email you to just inform you that this might need to be brought to your attention due to it was so random. I am truly sorry for the bad news for such an amazing company. Have a wonderful day. Thanks for reading this. Laura Hopkins email is [protected]@msn.com [protected]

I recently purchased a box of hostess scary cakes limited edition.
2 out of the 8 of the individual wrapped scary cakes has mildew on it I have provided a video plus pictures
Expiration date is October 30th 2019
Lot code G:[protected] 233 10:06 L31
Store bought @lidl Winston Salem NC
Name : Samantha Tran
@[protected]@gmail.com

I just purchased these scary cakes and the expiration date is Nov.7, 2019. The problem is I bit into one of these scary cakes and noticed that the side was moldy after I have already taken a bite. I have the picture also. This has never happened to me before. I love your products but I don't know if I can snack on these again after this. [protected]@gmail.com is my email address

My boyfriend eats these everyday on his way to work and has been doing this for years. I bought a bag of them for us to enjoy over the weekend together and after he ate a few he said they tasted funny and also noticed that their shape was different as well.
I tried one to and thought they tasted funny as well. I'm not sure what it was but they just tasted off. As for the look they were really skinny and had a big hole in the middle usually u don't really see the hole in the middle.
The picture attached doesn't really show how weird they really looked.