Hostess Brands
Reviews and Complaints

I purchased a box of peanut butter ding dongs tonight for my childrens snack. I took yhe last one out of the box, took one bite, thankfully i did swallow it. It tasted HORRIBLE. it was so bad i started throwing up and no matter what i did i could not get the taste out of my mouth. No the box was not out of date, and  my children did not complain, after i came from the bathroom i smelled the cupcake, it even smells HORRIBLE! To be honest i can not tell what it smells like(NASTY) my husband said it smells like some kind of chemical. Not sure what happens now, but this is NOT ok.

The last couple of times I've purchased these, I noticed they were.so dry, almost overcooked and very little filling. Both had expiration dates were a month or more out. I've been a lifetime customer and this is very disappointing. The first box surprised me because exp date was a month out, so I thought I'd give it another try and same thing.
Very surprised at this quality based on the history of this brand.

I purchased 2 packages of the bakery petites in double chocolate and strawberries and cream. When I got home and put my groceries away I opened the bag of chocolate to find that they had previously melted and were now back to normal temperature and all stuck together. It's a 10 minute drive from the grocery store to my house so I know they did not melt and then re-harden when I had them. I am attaching a picture of the cake mess and my receipt with the time and date of purchase on them.

Your frosted mini donettes are now smaller and have less chocolate on them. I pick up a package of these about once a week at my holiday gas station. Because I eat them regularly, I immediately noticed the size difference and that there is noticeably less chocolate on them. I buy your brand even though it is more expensive and this is how you repay loyal customers? I will not be purchasing these or any of your products again.

Just bought one of your cakes from petrol in Ashburn and this cakes was full of mold. As it was bought for my husband Birthday today 7-19-2019 he took a bite before seeing it was tainted with mold all the way through. I am very worried he will get sick now. I am very disappointed as he love your cakes and you allow this on shelves. Picture will show you. This package was very gross and high health risk.

My zingers had mold on them, this is the second time I got them and had to throw them away. The first time they had a bug baked into it, I only figured that out after I had taken a bite out of it. Please look into this matter so i can some day enjoy them again. I love zingers but really sceptical about buying them ever again 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I went and purchased the ‘ HoHo' product through you guys ‘ Hostess ‘ and everything Peer to be just fine. I even reached in the back for the HoHo food product (it's believed the freshest and best was always behind the rest) . . . But when I bit into it I had immediately noticed a horrible taste and right after it was followed by a very unpleasant smell . I looked and there mold. It was disgusting. I did check the expiration and had not expired. I'm just upset I share everything with my 2 year old daughter and it upsets me that she could've bit into it as well

Opened a box of hostess orange cupcakes. Unwrapped one cupcake and notice green spot on bottom of cupcake, looks like mold. I then took the rest of the cupcakes out of box and found a green moldy spot on top of icing, still inside of package. This is unacceptable and I expect to be compensated, for this. Expiration on box was Aug. 22 2019 Would appreciate an immediate response.
Vickie Mynatt

To whom it may concern,
I purchased 4 boxes of your individual wrapped cakes. With 4 kids and my working fiancée they go through a lot! Especially if they're playing outside
Or swimming all day. I don't know it it took place at the store or during bagging but all 4 boxes of these cakes where completely smooshed- it was beyond eating without making a huge mess. I thank you

Just a note on the way companies like this are continually reducing the sizes and portions of their products. I bought a box of the orange cupcakes for the 4th of July holiday as I do sometimes and upon opening saw that all of them look like someone sat on them. They're half the size and portion they used to be. It's not a new issue - companies are continually cutting costs by cutting product portion at the same time increasing prices - it's a double whammy to the consumer and it's disappointing and misleading. Especially since we cannot 'see' the products inside a cardboard box.
I do not want a refund or a coupon...that solves nothing. I've stopped buying several products the last couple of years for the same reasons and I will probably not purchase Hostess products anymore. And that's a shame...
Enclosed are photos using a teaspoon for scale.

I recently purchased "Star Spangled Ding Dongs" at my local Wallmart. I opened the box today and tried one cake. It was hard, had very ( and I mean just a glaze ) icing and tasted old and chewy.
It was awful. Definitely not up to Hostess standards.
I would like to be compensated for the purchase of this item.
Best by date Jul 25 2019
G 0511 24000 131 02:32

I decided to buy these and try them and they were awful, they were very dry and even hard on edges. I thought maybe bad pkg but not all 6. I don't have the money to just buy random things so I was treating us. Maybe you could try a new process or something. I normally like all of Hostess' products, so it was a real surprise to me that this product was so bad.

We opened a 10 pack of raspberry zingers and there were only 6 in the box. We tried to take it back to exchange it but we were told we couldnt as they thought we hadnt eaten some of them. Despite the fact we literally just walked out the store and even showed them the receipt. So i came online to file a complaint that we were shorted out of zingers from a brand new box. Is there a way we can get a replacement box? Thank you.

I bit into something hard as a rock. When I pulled it out and washed the bread from around it, I cannot determine what it is and I'm disgusted. This literally hurt my tooth when I tried to bite into it. I am astonished that something like this could mistakenly be placed in a food item. Never again will I eat your products. I tried to break whatever this thing was in half and it wouldn't even break down.

I wish you never changed your fruit pies. They were perfect the way they were for the last 50 years. I won't be buying any more of them now.

The new one in the boxes are little, the cherry filling has absolutely no cherries in it - it tastes like fake cherry jello or something, and the crust left a bitter taste in my mouth. What a disappointment!

After 50 years or more! Why did you go and do that?

I bought 2 package of Hostess products from my local Walgreens hamburger buns and donuts. Today is 6/29/19 the hamburger buns expiration date is 08/15/29, that seems like a misprint. Then my donuts were expired on 06/28/19. As a consumer its frustrating to know if the product is really good. I have never purchased a bready product that has almost a size week expiration date.

I purchased 4 boxes of these at my local Kroger store. One of the boxes had an air-inflated wrapper in the box. It wasn't open and thus I only got 7 of my 8 cakes.

I was amazed that the package was not deflated. This is the first time I have ever had it happen to me.

I have included a picture of the entire box with the codes and also a picture of the product-missing package.

I usually pay 1.99. Per package. Last night I paid 3.99. At a gas station in Munising. MI. Bit the real problem was way I paid so much for stale donuts. I buy one package per day. So when I opened this package up to eat some. They were stale. It was a 10.75 0z package. Barcode is 8. 88109. 15002. 0. L:G [protected] 119x 14:59 D3 this is the only snack I eat on my way to and from work. I would like it very much if you can somehow let these businesses know that they take any out dated items off the shelves. I don't know why this package was stale but it was. This was the first time it's happened to me.

Just purchased these and the wrapper is unopened but there are only 5 doughnuts instead of 6 ? Date June 20, 2019 @ 745pm I paid $2.59 for this pack purchase 2 other packs at the same time from the same location and didn't even realize the difference until I got home this is a big problem since I paid the price I did for each pack . I would like my money refunded or a new pack