Hostess Brands
Reviews and Complaints

I just purchased a bag the Powdered mini Donettes from Target 6/5/17. In never had a issue with the taste I always purchase the powdered mini donettes normally from a grocery store. This was a first time buy at target. The taste is bad I checked the expiration date and it's not till 7/5/17 on month from now. The taste of first biting it a gross bitter taste as if they had already gone bad. I only paid $2.00 for the bag but it still sucks that now I have to go back to the store and return them. I won't be buying them at target again and just sticking to grocery store buy only. I should have checked the expiration date at the store but it wasn't something I thought about at the time. I mean it's a month from not but they taste like they already went bad. Maybe wrong print on the date? I don't know

I bought a box of hostess brand mini muffins blueberry on 5/27/2017 and when i opened my little bag to have some for breakfas t the morning of 5/28/2017 i found that there is mold growing on them i have never had this problem before but this is gross and dont expect i will be buying them any more please keep a closer eye on what this company is packaging.

Thanks so much
Melissa beauregard

I bought a couple boxes of the mini muffins on May 21st. The are five individual packs of muffins in each box. The first two packs I had were fine. I opened the third pack this morning, May 25th, and found mold on each of the muffins. The best by date is June 16th. I am very saddened by this because these are one of my favorite go-to's for a quick breakfast. I would really only request a refund or replacement.

yesterday my husband purchased a box of snoballs from Walmart. He opened them when he go home and there were only 5 snoballs instead of 6. The box was unopened prior to this. They have a date of jul 03 2017. Code on the box is E042921000 119 14:51 L11. The food that was in the box was in good order and did not seem to be tampered with at all. I believe it was probably just a machine malfunction.

Just bought 2 bags of donuts, the powder and chocolate. After allowing my 3 children. To grab donuts out of the bag. My oldest who is 8 came running to me screaming that there was a bug on her plate. Sure enough there was a dead cockroach in her plate. So I look in the bag and there is a live cockroach Inside of the bag. I am so disgusted. When I buy product I want good quality not bug infested. I will no longer buy this and I'm pretty sure my children wont want donuts for a long time, due to being traumatized from this.

On Sunday April 23rd I bought a box of your cupcakes. The box said it had 8 individually wrapped cakes. I opened the box on April 27th and there were only 6 cakes in the box. Not too happy about that. I am a little disappointed that I was shorted cakes from Hostess. I really like Hostess food so I am hoping that this was just a mistake and the only mistake.

I've been getting these cupcakes for a long time now. The last few boxes that have had have had a few rock hard cupcakes in them. First box was orange, second orange and now golden the packages are open on one end with an extra piece of cardboard stamped in the end of it which kept it from sealing. I have never seen this problem before are there any solutions? Thanks Garrett.

I often buy multipacks of your hostess m&m chocolate brownies at my local b&m and I have done for a while now, although in my latest box I found a curly dark hair in the packaging of one of the individually wrapped brownies. I have light blonde hair therefor I could not have mistaken it for mine. I have attached a picture below of the hair found in my brownie.

I purchased donettes on April 17 at a krausers convenient store in sayreville NJ and they were purchased for my 3 year old grandchild that loves these very much it just so happens that I tried one of the white powered ones and it literally taste like medicine it was the most disgusting taste I ever ever had with this brand that we always purchase please look into this the UPC code is [protected] the stamped number on the front is [protected]

I don't get upset about very much. I had a short childhood. I had to grow up faster than most children. One of my fondest memories of my childhood was the Q. The way the cake was so moist and the dark cake that stuck to the packaging. The sweet cream that would ooze from the two cakes. A lot of desert for little money. I grew up in Lodi, NJ in welfare housing with very little to eat. So you can see how much your cake meant to me. I just purchased a box of Suzy Q's at Wal-Mart and the disappointment I fealt open the box and taking out that first wanna B of a Suzy Q. The cak is nothing like the original it's dry not much taste and there's hardly and cream. The shape has nothing to resemble to the original Q. You should call them Cake Squares because they are boring.
John David Barton
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John David Barton
4413 Field Crest Lane
Maryville, Tn. 37801

Box appeared smaller than usual, but I purchased it anyway. I was shocked to find that the product is now about 25-30% smaller than before. Two bites and it was gone. These were NOT "mini's" or "fun size", etc. Hostess, along with a LOT of other companies, has reduced the size/volume of their product and is still charging the consumer just as much money, or more. Just how stupid do they think we are? That we wouldn't notice? Same deal with the Hostess pies; they're now over 25% smaller than they used to be, and cost the same or more. Joining this rip-off bandwagon are the cereal companies with their smaller boxes, soda companies with their flimsy aluminum cans than buckle in your hands, water companies with their thinner plastic bottles that also buckle in your hands, etc. This all needs to stop! Either return these items to their original state, or lower your prices to compensate for the reduced size/quality. I'm tired of being ripped off every time I turn around by these money-grubbing companies! I will NOT buy another Hostess product until this is rectified.

Best by March 17 2017 E [protected] 011 11:06 6

Purchased at a Big Lots on March 17 2017 for $.75 plus tax

This has to be the most poorly produced product ever. It is so dry and tasteless, I am beyond words. I can not believe Hostess would put this product on the market and expect people to think it is good.

If this the best Hostess can do they need to get out of the business.

3/20/17
Circle K convince store, Dummerston VT (West River Rd)

I entered the store at approximately 1030 hours and purchased the HOSTESS brand creme Danish (5 oz) size.
I returned to my office to consume the danish and the coffee I purchased right after leaving the store.
After I got to the office, I opened to package and uncovered a large spot on the back side of the danish covered in MOLD. This danish has a "best by" date of MARCH25 (E 0119 8100 is printed on package). I am VERY glad I waited until I got back to my office and did not consume the portable danish while I was driving. I would have gotten very sick.
Resolution- replacement and refund

I go to the store (meijers) and pick out a bag of powdered donettes only to get home and find out they are already expired by over a week and are now not edible since they have mold starting to grow evem though they were never opened. I am very disappointed in the fact that you would allow a store to keep expired products on their shelves and get people sick. I believe I am entitled to a refund as well as some vouchers for free products due to your companies negligance.

so i bought two Danish is and one for me and one for my 2 year old son. after opening them i found melted plastic inside of the Danish. i had it sent out to a lab and awaiting the results. but to be honest i have never though in a million years i would ever find any thing like this in your food this was for my son. im really disappointed. i just dont get how your how your company has been around for so long and something like this could ever slept by your employees.my son could have choked on this.

These donuts are stale and smell like drywall and paint. They tasted like soapy paint/drywall. The taste was so horrible I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth. My friends complained about the taste too when i shared some with them. I threw away the donuts and the wrapper smelled as well. It doesn't even have a expiration date. I remember these tasting sweet and smelling sugary.

I purchased a box of the Vanilla frosted zingers from my local Woodman's grocer in North Aurora, IL on 2/23/2017. Upon opening it was observed that one of the cake snacks has an object on the side of it that does not appear to be edible. It looks like an insect, though I am not certain. The object is also very hard in texture. I absolutely love the vanilla zingers and this is completely unacceptable. I am always buying 2-3 boxes at a time and though this problem has never occured in the past it is an issue that has made me uncomfortable in proceeding to purchase any more of your product in the future. I am not sure what can be done to resolve this issue other than to prevent it from happening in the future.

I just can not understand why every time I buy a apple fruit pie it tastes old, stale, and dry!
I think it may be because of the packaging. They now come in this cardboard box, so the pie isn't sealed correctly! WHY? Who thought this was a good idea? The worst part is I am pregnant and I always crave these apple pie cakes so every time my husband gets me one I Am Always hoping for the best BUT an always disappointed! I really need to be reimbursed with fresh apple pie cakes! I do hope this gets resolved!

Bought powdered donuts since i had a craving, bit into first one and all i could taste was grease. The donut wasnt greasy but it was like the donuts sat next to a fryer for a year and soaked it all in. I tried another trying to be positive as im pregnant and just wanted a powdered donut but the entire 6 pack tasted like grease in turn making me sick all day. I had a different brand in hand and switched when i saw hostess..big mistake!

I opened the Hostess Blueberry Muffins. Brand new package. Not expires until March 2017.
Most of the packages were full of mold and very smelly. I have pictures to show proof. It was awful. I'm so glad my son didn't eat them.
That could have very scary.
I think you need to be notified about these kinds of errors so that other kids will not get sick. I've never seen anything like this before. Or smelt anything like that. It was so bad.

Wendy Johnson
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9300 A Kempler Dr
Austin, Tx 78748
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