Hostess Brands
Reviews and Complaints

We purchased a bag of your Petites Double
chocolate Cake Delights to try. Upon opening the bag we discovered mold growing inside. The bag appeared to be sealed with no noticible holes or tears. We then confirmed that they are not expired with an expiration date of September 30th 2018. Just want to warn you all of this concern! Needless to say we threw them out.

Powered donettes 10.5 oz. Expires 11-02-2018. The worst taste ever! Dry, I mean hard dry! With a horrible after taste. I can't believe "hostess" is on the bag. But this is it for me! This crap has helped me get control of my sweet tooth. Aaauuugh!
Too short of a complaint... I grow up around an hostess bakery. The sweet smell in the air! But this crap now... Omg! What a shame. You should be paying people to even say the name.
I will spread the word; don't waste your money. Hard as a rock. I would have gotten more out of a rock. Hardness would have been expected. A donut... My foot.
Remove the heart... & put a turd.

Hi !

My name is Gina Priest . I first have to say I am a Hugh fan of yours . Your food is fantastic ! . I buy so many boxes of your products often . I at least buy a box of any kind of your food that you offer weekly . Not only am I a Hugh fan my son is too . That is saying alot. He is a very picky eater . But I have to say I am very dissatisfied & disappointed. I bought several boxes of your cinniamon strusel Coffee cakes the other night & 3 of the boxes I had bought was disappointing to say the least. 2 boxes that I had bought we're completely missing the cinniamon swiral in the middle of the cakes & the other one was completely missing the cinniamon strusel on the top of the coffee cakes . That was 3 total boxes that I lost money on . They were not cheap . That was at least twenty dollars . I know that may seem like pennies to you but It certainly isn't to me . It's so sad cause I don't no if I will ever buy any more of any kind of products you have to offer ever again . I unfortunately do not have the money to waste if the next box doesn't come out the way it is supposed to. I am also so very upset cause again, I love, love, love your coffee cakes . So very disappointing !

I bought a box of Orange cupcakes but from taking 1 a day in my lunch. To had broken seals around them and where very hard could not eat and they was in the middle of the box. the date on the box was for sept 24th. They where all good except the 2 i found in the box all ready opened. The UPC Code is [protected]. Never had a issue before. But would appreciate a reply to this matter.
Thanks
Mike Taylor

I bought your new glow balls. I expected them to be completely fresh since it is October. The coconut on some of them was hard. The rest of the glow balm was fresh. I always buy hostess brand and for the most part all have been fresh. It was to my surprise these glow balls were not. I am very disappointed. I wold like maybe some coupons or money back.

Thank you
Anita De Leon
14445 Moffat rd
Temple TX 76502.

Expiration date on this bag is Nov 04, 2018, I bought this bag September 20, 2018. The donuts we're all melted together, in pieces and dried out. The bag did not look like it had been stepped on or any damages to it and they didn't look melted together from what I could see through the little window. In order to eat these donuts I had to put them in a bowl so as to not make a Hugh mess.

Yuck! What happened to the wonderful Hostess Snowballs that I knew before Hostess closed and now is reopened by someone else. The new owner is definitely not using the same recipe as was used before. The coconut is good, the marshmallow is good, the cream filling is good but the cake is awful. It is very dry and totally unappetizing. I will never buy any hostess cake again.

We have bought these packages of cupcakes multiple times. They come in a pack of 2 and there has only been one cupcake in the package. Paying $2 for one cupcake is a waste of money and I won't be buying them again. If it happens once, that's okay because it happens every now and again. But it has happened several times over the past week. That is just ridiculous and means someone isn't paying attention when doing their job.

First of, I love these things, and so does everyone in my household. I recently brought them again and the package smells like a vinyl or a nail salon. At first it only burned my nose hairs for a little so I was fine with it and the food didn't taste weird. Now the smell has gotten worse and the petite bites now taste exactly like the smell of the packing

My kids were very excited to try these hostess cakes and after dinner i told them they could try them. I opened the box to find 3 different packages already opened so we weren't even going to attempt to eat them. No telling with the world we live in. I opened another cake and let my husband try and it was hard and stale. I'm not one to complain but this is a little ridiculous

Prior to leaving for a road trip out of state, we purchased 3 packs of Hostess cupcakes from our local high store. Each pack at 3 cupcakes in it. We were very disappointed after opening the first pack to find that there was maybe a dime size of filling in each cupcake. We're proceeded to open the other six cupcakes and found it to be the same thing. Once we traveled and got into Delaware we decided to try purchasing cupcakes at various other places. We were very disappointed to find that this was consistent through five different stores in two different states. Hostess has really gone downhill.

I bought a box of the chocolate peanut butter Twinkies. Talk about false advertising! The box shows a Twinkie loaded with peanut butter. When I bit into it, I could barely see it, nevermind taste it. Very disappointed. Will not be buying this again. I usually don't go for the sweets. Funnybones have always been my favorite. I thought the Twinkies would be great because there was no chocolate coating. Again, very dissapointed.

I purchased a box of Ding Dongs at Dollar General store to day and I get a box a week they are usually the best, but today they tasted like they had strawberries in it. I was shocked and disappointed at same time. I would like a refund or coupon and just wanted to let you know as well. I will add numbers off the box. Thanks, Beth Spurling

Best used by Oct 15 2018
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Our Grand-daughter who is 5 yrs. old has Peanut Allergies & allergic to all tree nuts. Last wk. I bought a box of Hostess blueberry Mini Muffins that come in separate pouches for her to bring as a snack for school. The problem is that even though the box lists all the ingredients the individual pouches do not have any ingredients listed so therefore I was not able to send her to school with this snack. The policy of the school is that any snack in a pouch has to have a label of all the ingredients or they are not by law allowed to give it to any child that has allergy's in my grand-daughters case Peanut & tree nut allergies. I have not run into this problem with other companies labeling the back of the pouches so hope you can change your packaging.

Let me start off by saying that I have been a Hostess cupcake ding dong and Ho-Ho connoisseur for 50 plus years. I am diabetic not supposed to eat sugars as it is so when I do have a craving I normally buy Hostess Ding Dongs or Hostess Ho Hos. Imagine my surprise when I walk into the local convenience store today on one of my many sugar cravings and bought a pack of Hostess Ding Dongs. Before I even open the package I noticed that they were considerably smaller but that the price was the same. When I have a craving I normally eat too but now there's so smaller in size I would have to buy two packs and that's really unfair to buy 2 packs of 2 and get 4 when I only need two so I don't have to buy two packs to get three to be the equivalent of 2. Now you might think this is a crazy email but I am not the least happy. The price is still a 1. 99 for 2 but the size has gone down a whole ho ho'
That is really unfair that you all did not let the public know that you were going down to in size but not changing your price and now because of that I'm going to have to switch to another brand which is very unfair to me I just figured I'd let you all know. Sincerely yours
Denise e spruell
2480 Lena Lane
West Palm Beach Florida 33415
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F. Jackson
These cookies were purchased this day at Walmart.
You say on bag "...is baked with care so you can savor each delicious bite."
We are savoring EVERY SPOONFUL.. Though they are, admittedly, quite tasty, they are a bag of just plain bits, pieces and crumbles. There were just 3 or 4 that were whole.
Cookies this breakable should, perhaps, be in a box

I bought a box of ding dongs at krogers on Friday evening in Riverview MI, for one thing I couldn't believe how small theses ding dongs are for the price that is charged. But my main complaint is there was only 1 ding dongs in the whole box that had a somewhat decent amount of filling in it, the other 9 had almost nothing in them and they were very very dry. I was very disappointed

I bought a bag of donettes 24 Aug 2018 from local Dollar General and opened the bag 25 Aug 2018. I didn't notice the smell coming from the bag until I ate a single donut and there is a taste I can't explain. I had my son verify the smell coming from the bag. I am not very happy. I have purchased these donettes numerous times and now I'm not so sure I'll buy any again.

I buy hostess cupcakes regularly this latest box barely had any cream filling. Box number [protected] sale by date 10-15-2018. F [protected] 223 07:44 L31 I was happy about the new ownership who has been providing high quality products. This one surprise me that this box of poor quality made it out to a loyal customer like myself so im lodging this complaint in order to resolve this issue. I would have taken it back to the kroger store for a refund but i rather deal with hostess directly so u can check your processes and continue producing high quality products that i expect from your company.

I purchased a pack of the chocolate twinkies and it looked like there was a thin layer of mold on the top half of one of them, but I thought maybe it was just some cream. I took a bite of the other half and it tasted very bitter and horrible. Not sure what it was, but the taste was very bad. Never had this problem before, we are always satisfied with your products.