Hostess Brands
Reviews and Complaints

This is the second time I have bought the vanilla zingers and they have been hard as a brick. But this time they even looked bad. Bought April 22,2023 at local grocery. Opened box this morning immediately threw 3 away due to the way they looked. Tried to eat one and could not due to it being so hard! This is ridiculous! I don’t usually complain about things like this, just throw away and that’s it but the way prices are so high these days consumers are getting ripped off. I can’t even find an expiration date on the box.

Grabbed a zinger out of the box and noticed something black on the end of it. When I broke the piece off to inspect it, I couldn't figure out what it was. It was a hard piece of something that I still am not able to identify. In the pictures I took, you can see where the piece was located on the Zinger. Needless to say, I quickly lost any desire to eat Zingers and threw the box out. It was disgusting. I am so disappointed that the Hostess products that are being sold now are so different from the products the original Hostess company made.

Bought a devils food jumbo honey bun on April 19th 2023 opened it and mold was all over it. The expiration date is Mar 02 2023. I have pictures and all I buy hostess all the time and this is not acceptable they are suppose to clean the shelves of out of date product this clearly hasn't been check in awhile March 2nd it is not April 19th that's almost 45 days..

Yes I got 2 boxes of the vanilla hostess zingers for a loved one. When they opened them they were hard as a brick. I’d appreciate it if someone would make this right. This was Ohio. Purchased from a place called union supplies. Purchased on April 1, 2023. The zingers were unable to be eaten. Couldn’t find a date on them telling me when they expired.

My husband bought 2 boxes of Ho-Ho's. What a waste of money. Every one of them is hollow. You can see right through them. Very disappointed in the product and the company. Your products seem to be getting smaller but now to have no filling? We bought them at Tops Supermarket. We bought them on April 8th. Opened the box around 9 pm. Upc code is [protected]. Your products have become a total waste of money

Today is April 2nd..2023. I purchased powdered donuts today at Wal-Mart in Ottawa, Ohio. I have never experienced anything too awful from Hostess brand, but these donuts were very hard, stale..truly stomach turning. They have an expiration date of May 20th 2023. Honestly not enough milk in the world wash these down. Had a bad experience with chocolate mini donuts last year...stopped buying those. I will try to return to the store. Please try to improve your brand, this is NOT the Hostess that I loved. Very sad. My name is Tia Hart ...Quality should be top priority now. Freshness is important

Date of incident 4/1/23, 6pm. We opened the bag of Donettes and one donut was covered in some kind of chocolate cake? There were also chocolate cake peices in the bottom of the bag? They looked really gross? This is the first time it's happened. I took a few pics also. The serial # is [protected] 7 if that helps? You can reach me at [protected]@yahoo.com if needed. Please let me know what the remedy could be. Thank you so much in advance. I do not still have the receipt, but I bought 2 bags of the same kind from the Dollar General on Wednesday, March 28th. The bags expiration date is 5/12/2023. The first bag was fine. Thanks again.

P.S. I have pics I can upload, but I already threw the donuts away!

Hi I just bought a box of strawberry cupcakes. My husband opened the package and seen one with something black in the cupcake. We don't know what it is but it looks like a strip of leather. We're parents of a 2 year old and we could've gave our child the cupcake without even really paying attention cause we eat hostess all the time. We love your snack cakes.

Where is your quality control? I bought a box and not one of them were so high they were supposed to be either the icing was missing or it was falling off very disappointing as expensive as your cupcakes have gotten you guys should do a better job and a ho hos have really went downhill too hollow on the inside crumbly on the outside. I will no longer be buying your products until I hear back from you on how you’re going to fix these problems. Thank you.

First let me start by saying I am very disappointed that I can't get Suzy Q's in my area. (Western Ma.) Second I'm a Ho Ho fan and lately they have been coming almost hollow in the middle and all the chocolate cracked and falling off. I think this happens because the middle isn't full and the cake crushes easily. I know you decreased size on all your products which isn't right but would put up with that if the product was in good shape and tasty! Come on you guy's can do better than what you have been producing! You may loose a loyal customer over this. Jeff

On march 20,23- I opened a case of coffee cakes ,cinnamon streusel that I perished at the Lewiston branch company . A couple days later I noticed that a couple of the cakes weren’t any good had a funny taste, an parsley hard around the edges. I have been a loyal customer of yours for over 35years an have enjoyed all of your products intill this one incidence . I would very thankful if you’d send me a new case of the coffee cakes, cinnamon streusels to my home mailing address .please send it to Jason standeven 740 east andover rd. Andover maine 04216 . Thank you hostess co for regarding my concerns..

My name is natasha griffey an i bought on the 5th of march at food city in greeneville tn 37745. The entire box which contains 10 zingers everyone of them was opened when I bought the box. The wrappers of them was only half sealed. So I don't know why the only number on the box is L:K0105 24000 005 X 24:36. AN THE BARCODE IS [protected]. THANK YOU..

First off, congratulations on your products. I really do like them. I bought a box of Hostess HoHos, they absolutely do not look anything near what you are representing on the box. These are barely 3/4 inch high and not round at all. Yes, I do remember these wrapped in thin foil and actually looked like the picture on the box back in 1975 and they were phenomenal; and looked just like the picture on the box.Thank you. Laurie

I have not seen raspberry Zingers in Hermiston OR area for months to a year, finally found some at the local Safeway! I bought 2 boxes and upon opening them they look burnt and taste burnt. Total bummer since it is the best product Hostess offers! Best by April 28, lot # k [protected] 043 03 : 24 I ate a few but the burnt taste over powers the great taste of raspberry.

I purchased a box of Hostess Ice Vanilla zingers today on March 14th 2023 and half of them are rock hard like they dried out like the packaging got screwed up the box was fine not damaged at all the packaging was all fine but half of them were rock hard I purchased these at Machenthun's grocery store in Waconia Minnesota. I would include a picture, but you can't tell by looking at them. Thank you

I've had it with these donuts! Every package is different ranging from dried out, stale, mushy, smashed, no donut hole, etc. Good donuts are far and few between. It seems to me that all these donuts should be the same it the same recipe is being used for all donuts but that is not the case. I have thrown away many packages because they were inedible. Your price keeps going up but your quality keeps going down. Don't you have any quality control for your products? This is unacceptable!

Purchased Zingers from my local grocery store March 3, 2023 and per the box they are still within the "best by" date for freshness of March 15, 2023. The code under this is J123024000 364 23:40

They were stale to taste and far less coconut on them. Inconsistent coconut coverage on the Zingers within this box. I was very disappointed as these are my favorite Hostess snack cake going back to my childhood. It's sad when the quality of a product is sacrificed on such a recognized brand and this is not good for the Hostess name.

0N 03/07/2023 AT 9:33 AM AT The Dollar General 600 Rahut Streets Burlington NC 27217. I Brought a box of zingers. The Has The date of March 13 2023. The Box Is Mixed With old zingers. They're hard and nasty. The Chocolate on the top of some of them is smashed and the chocolate on top seems to be a very different color. Grand-daughter and found a that the chocolate was hard and very hard to bit. This has never happened before I love these zingers but this box was not good

I purchased a box of vanilla iced zingers at a Dollar General on Cottage Ave in Bloomington IL 61701 on Sunday March 5th 2023. They are very hard and just disgusting. This is the 3rd box of hostess cakes I have purchased from this particular DG that was so hard. I definitely will not be buying this product again. I have attached a picture of the codes and numbers on the box. They aren’t even outdated so not sure why they are so hard. Thank you

I purchased a box of the hostess snoballs from Ingels grocery store in granite fall nc and when I opened the box about half of the individual cakes were not sealed and they were hard and had to be thrown away ,they cost to much to buy and have to throw them away for people living on a fixed income it's not like we can just run out and buy more any time we want to. They are in date and the bar code is [protected] 3 these are my favorites but I would like to been able to eat them.