Hostess Brands
Reviews and Complaints

I bought a bag of Hostess Powdered Donnettes today at a gas station before work. When I opened them and started eating them, I noticed that they are not very fresh. They are kind of hard and taste a little stale. I did look for the sale by date and it does say sale by 10/11/2917, which is today, so that is probably why they taste like this. I usually by th little Debbie mini powdered donuts but the gas station was out so I was hoping that these would be as good, but sadly I was disappointed. I just wanted to let someone know so that maybe these will be better in the future.

I noticed many expired packages of hostess donettes, chocolate frosted, and powdered sugar. On 10/9/17. At a dollar General store#15110, there were bags of the above products, with dates of: 9/22/17, 10/2/17, 10/11/17. (?)I spoke to a manager at that store, (Melaine). She stated that your product was rotated and stocked by a 3rd party (company). Please check in to this issue. It is bad business, and reflects on your product!

I bought this product yesterday (product date/code: BEST BY OCT 14 2017 E [protected] 222 19:35 9) and a friend brought me a pack of a competitors snowballs because she couldn't find Hostess at the store she visited. The competitor is Mrs. Freshley's Jack-O-Lanterns and oddly enough they happen to have the same best by date. I've always purchased Hostess brand snacks over any other because that is what I grew up on. However, over the past several months I have not been satisfied with the products freshness and taste. The Mrs. Freshley's brand definitely were more fresh, tasted better and had a better texture in its components than your brand.

Come on Hostess, you were at one time much better than you are now.

Please take measures to improve quality and perhaps you will get another chance to win back some of your loyal fans.

I previously purchased a box of chocolate chip mini muffins. I opened a package and when I expected there to be four mini muffins in the package there was only three. I was and am highly upset about it. I really enjoy hostess treats but this was just a bad experience overall. This incident happened on October the 5th, I purchased the box of muffins on October 1st.

I bought a box of chocolate cake twinkis on 9/29/17 at the cost of $3.00. I opened the box the first twinkie the package was opened and it was dried out. As I am finishing the box there was another one opened and dried out. I was disappointed. Twinkies have always been my favorite so I thought I would try something new nope disappointed. The date on the box was October 3 2017 E-[protected] 211 05:06 L23. Thank you for your time. Also the chocolate cake twinkies are a whole lot smaller than the regular ones

Prior to the last one left in the box were good but the very last one was so nasty I had to spit it out. It tasted like some kind of chemicals. Very disappointed I will be afraid to buy these again as it was bitter and smelled like chemicals. the number on the carton is E [protected]:38

What do you put into those Ding Dongs I have never experienced this before Nasty!

date of incident:today, 10/04/2017
full description of the incident; husband bought me 9.5 oz bag of crunch donettes. He brought it to me from the am/pm convenience store and the bag was not glued shut. There was no traces of glue on the top section on the bag. I pulled out a crunch donette (my favorite) and it was old and crumbly. It looked stale and I made my husband try one. He said it was dry, stale and crumbly.

It doesn't look like the bag was tampered with. I was just saddened that I was unable to eat your yummy goodness. AM/PM stated that I would need to speak or go online to see if you would exchange this bag. This was the last one AM/PM had in the store.

Stamped on the bag:
Best By: Oct 16 2017
E [protected]:08 224

So this is why I am writing you today. I still have the bag if you need it. Thanks for reading!

What a disappointment! I remembered how tasty the apple fruit pie were when sealed a wrapper. I purchased one at a leading grocery store but was surprised to find it sealed in a box. However, much to my dismay, the filling was brown (looked like apple butter). The expiration date on the package indicated that it was best for another month. Have you changed the recipe or do you need to adjust the expiration dates on the packaging?

Hi my name is Sara. [protected] I just got one of your cherry pies at the quick trip on Page ave by Lindberg and it was a mess and inedible. The pie was super dry on the inside. The filling was really dried out and the pie was in pieces. Im not really sure how I want this resolved, its not like I can go get a new one. I just wanted to let you guys know that super old product was on the shelf.

I just purchased the powdered mini donuts.
I am sorry say that I was very disappointed. I remember the day when these donuts were nice and soft and we're great!
Today's package was horrible! They are dry and tough. Nothing like they used to be!
I remember when hostess products were what always bought! I know there is a lot of competition out there, Tastykake, for one. I've their donuts and they aren't bad. Entemanns aren't bad either! I was really hoping for a blast from the past! Only to be disappointed. Maybe I should stick with one of the others! (I would like a message from Hostess.

I love your strawberry cupcakes, but Walmart doesn't stock them anymore, for some unknown reason. None of the other local stores carry them either. I even tried to order some, but they're in store purchase only. If I could order them directly from Hostess, I would. They do carry your orange flavored cupcakes though. And I buy them.
Tell me how to buy them.

Your Twinkies have reduced in size, they are dense and unfavorable. You cut back to make a profit and your product is now crap. As for the ding songs, I remember when they were wrapped in foil. They were an excellent product for a quick taste of chocolate cake. Now they are no bigger than an Oreo. They are flat and very distasteful. I hope you enjoy your profit because I will never purchase those products again. They stink.

Hi I just opened a packaged ding dong proceeded to take a bite and noticed a different taste. When I took a look at the ding dong there was mold with spores that had grown at the bottom and inside the cake of the sealed packaged! I was so grossed out! I had just purchased this package a week ago and I just bought two more yesterday and nervous to have anyone eat them.

I purchased a box of iced vanilla zingers and when i was about to open a cake for my 3 year old i noticed something black was in the cake on the outside. Not sure what it is it feels hard. Box states good until october 22. I just purchased the box. I can send the cake as it is still in it's completely sealed package. I do not feel safe to have anyone eat it as we don't know what this is. Please get back to me what this could be. Thank you

This is as polite as I can be — Today's Hostess products suck.
Since the company has been rescued out of bankruptcy, the products you market are 50% smaller and cost at least 20% more and are as disappointing
as the US Congress and government.
I love Kansas City but, I believe, the city can't brag about Hostess today.

Your bottom line is probably OK and to us consumers again - "Its all about
the money"!
Most recent purchase=Chocolate Twinkies, 9/19/2017, bar code [protected]

Amen!

I bought them and they were moldy i have been sick all day.. They store would give me my money back after over charging me. I have always loved hosstess products and now i am scared to eat them anymore.. I am highly allergic to mold that is why i was so sick.. Also when i went back fo the store to speek to the mananger last night he showed me the box and the date on the box and there were not even close to their experation date.. So why so moldly and yucky.. I was sick for 2days and missed work for 2 days.. I wisb hostess would pay me for tje lost wadges.. Not cool now one of my favorite childhood treats is traumatized..

this is the second time that I've purchased a box of muffins and had issues with the quality and quantity of them. I opened my new box today and the first package had 4 muffins (4! wow!) not only were there just 4 muffins in the package but 2 of them were smashed in halves and crumbs in the packaging.

The box info stamped on it is as below...
BEST BY: OCT 26 2017 $6.64/LB 3.99
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I purchased the box from Walmart in Sallisaw, Oklahoma on 9/12/17. The outer packaging was not damaged in any way. I'm not complaining to receive a refund, I just want the quality of this product to come back as I love the muffins. Both Blueberry and Banana nut.

Thank you!

Marsha Crow
P.O. Box 353
Marble City, OK 74945
[protected]@gmail.com

I purchased this item from common cents on 9/12/17. The item was only bread, there was no filling in this danish at all. After a few bites I opened the entire thing to see that it was only a bread bun. I would like to be refunded for the item as it was missing the entire filling.

Teresa Fender
613 Platte Park Rd
Evansville WY 82636

[protected]@gmail.com

I bought the hostess brand mini chocolate muffins with 8g whole grain per serving. I bought these muffins because they were one of the only things left on the shelf at Walmart in Florida before the arrival of Hurricane Irma... I opened up a bag of the muffins and they had green mold on them! So I continued to open ththe other bags and they all had the mold.. very disappointed .

I purchased on August 20th your Frosted Chocolate Cakes with creamy filling and the product was disappointing. The product had an expiration date of Sep 30, 2017 but the product was already stale. I thought that maybe one cupcake was stale but the entire batch was stale. The icing was so hard that it fell off of the cupcakes. The lot number printed on the box was:
E:[protected] 208 14:11 L31.