Hostess Brands
Reviews and Complaints

So I'm complaining about this zinger that my wife bought at our local Walmart. So we hope in the car with this little treat and gave me a bit, my taste buds automatically said I'm eating a sponge . I tell my wife that does not taste good check the date on it, sHe replies it's from September 2018. We are in 2019 I started to feel sick a little from my stomach. So I went back to the cashier and spoke to a manger but they didn't even say sorry just a quick here is your money back that's all .

People check the dates

I bought a individual package of HoHos for the first time in years (F [protected] L:2 353 x 10:54) they were so dry and gritty. The sugar had crystallized and the chocolate coating was dry and flaky. I bought this item at Schnucks in Evansville, IN 6/20/19. Your packaging states improved chocolate flavor, this is not true. They are in the trash, and that is where they need to be, the recipe needs to go back to the old Hostess recipes, stop cutting corners.

Today 6/19/19. I was at work and i thought to myself mmm... I want to have a little treat. So i pulled out my 190 calorie snack with like a million grams of carbs (i'm trying to lower my carbs but not get on keto) and i open it up and i take a big bite and i'm all like yeahhhh i love being a dirty cheater. But much to my cheating [censored] surprise there was no cream! so i was like well maybe there is some but it's all at the end... There wasn't! so get it together because now i don't know how many carbs/calories i just consumed. And i will possibly have to go home and check the rest of them. So thanks for making have to eat a whole box of cupcakes.

I bought a pack of peanut butter ding songs at the Big Lots store in Northport AL on Sat June 15, 2019.

Information on the box is:

Best by June 22 2019
G [protected]:15

First couple were fine. However the next one tasted like it had been laced with a chemical or possibly poisoning. I immediately spit it out and rinsed and drank tons of water to try and flush anything, but I also made a detailed note in my planner stating the above in case something happened to me.

I refuse to touch all four of the boxes of hostess brand snack cakes we'd purchased for fear they may all have some sort of contamination and wanted to report it in case anyone else gets sick.

I bought a 10 pk box of White Fudge Ding Dongs today. I was excited to try them because I love white chocolate. I was very disappointed!
When I opened a package a lot of the white fudge had dropped off and there was so little white topping you could see right through it. It was not hard like the darker chocolate coating. The cake was soft and tasted more like a twinkie since it had so little white fudge on it.
Date of purchase : 6/16/19
Cost : $2.50 plus tax
I'm not sure what code you want : Product Code 8 88109 11197 7
Code on front of box G 0515 24000 135 Best by: July 29, 2019
I'd like a refund or a Hostess coupon. Thank you
Christine Casaceli
3241 Pintail View
Walworth, NY 14568

On June 12th, 2019 my husband purchased two Hostess HO HOs.
Size 3 ounce
one of the UPCs is [protected]
My husband threw away his wrapper, you will understand why in the explanation below.
We opened the product and then noticed that all 3 small rolls in the package were a little crushed. We were unphased by this, things happen.
When trying to retrieve the product out all of the chocolate covering the rolls crumbled into very small pieces.
The product was not fresh, as we usually receive when purchasing.
The Best By date is July 20, 2019.
I am not generally one to complain but there is a glitch in your system somewhere.

As always on my way home i stopped to get gas, going inside i pick out a snack to have before heading home to eat dinner. Finally sitting in my car waiting for my gas tank to fill up i took a bite out of the pastry i just bought from inside. With just one bite it was dry and just didn't taste right, thinking it was just me i took another bite and it just got even worse.

Looking at the whole pastry i noticed it had mold on the bottom of it, after going inside and telling the cashier what i saw he calls his manager over who apologizes and offers to give me a refund, i told him i did not want a refund but where i can go to make a complaint if a kid ate this they would have gotten sick to there stomach.

My 6 year old daughter got a cake from the box and opened it. Upon taking one or two bites she brought me what she thought was a piece of glass and said it came off the bottom of the cake! When her father and I inspected it we found that it was in fact a sharp shard of plastic. It was on the bottom of the cake when she peeled off the cardboard! If she had swallowed that it could have seriously hurt her!

Today, 6-11-2019 I purchased 2 packages of devils food Zingers. when going to open one all 3 of the cakes were molded. As you know Zingers are not cheap and I always buy multiple. Thats how much I love them. And to find this is very disappointing. I have included pictures of the cakes themselves and the best pictures I could get of the codes on the front of the package. Dont even want to open the other package. And just incase you are unable to read the code it is... L: G [protected] X 14:47 A and just so you know the code of the second package is L: G [protected] x 07:10 B

And on another note, when I was trying to go to your webb address provided on the packages there is no @ in it so was unable to send an email from my phone

To repair this horrible tragic mishap you can send me a case of FRESH devils food Zingers. I live in Texas so please remember that these cakes melt very easlily.

Deb Blanchard
9959 W FM 93
Belton, Tx 76513

I got a box of 6 snow balls only 2 had cream in the center. The information on the box is Jul 10 2019 G [protected] 116 18:24 L11. They were ok but the missing creamy center was a shock. I'm been eating snowballs for as long as I could recall. And this has never happened. I'm hoping this was the only time this well happen. They were ok but if the cream center ends. I will not be getting any more. Hopefully the lack of control in your productions will be taking care of.

Bought these two days ago, they are out of date and taste sour. The best by date says May 27 2019 if I'm reading it correctly. Not happy at all. I'm sure no one will ever see this, but I will post this anyway. I shop at a very like grocery store, that we visit several times weekly. Not sure who you have Wookieepedia the route that delivers to the grocery store. Apparently they a not keeping a close eye on expiration dates. Next time I will double check expiration dates before purchasing. Thank you.

This is the 2nd time we got a bag (9.5 oz) of HARD Hostess Donettes crunch mini donuts. It wouldn't be so bad if you dunk them in coffee but I don't like coffee so that didn't help matters. We have bought these at different times and different places so it's not happening at just one place. The last bag we bought was at Kwik Trip in Red Wing, MN. I think you should look into this matter.
We live in Onalaska, WI so we're not going to drive all the way back Red Wing, MN to return it, and we really like the donuts WHEN ... THERE MOIST.
The code number on the package is [protected].
The (use before) date was July 19th and we bought them on June 6th.
There's also another number on the bag and it is G [protected]:04
Thank you.
Delane A. Pierzina
Email address is [protected]@gmail.com

I purchased a Raspberry Zinger from my local Walmart located in Lithonia, GA 30038. I opened up my favorite snack and to my dismay I found out there was mold in my cake. It has a fresh sale date of 6/25/2019 I made my purchase today 6/05/2019. Because of the size of purchase I didn't feel like wasting gas to return to the store. Being that it has a good Best by date on it. I feel that Hostess should be aware of the bad product I received.

I purchased a loaf of bread today and got about half way thru the loaf of bread and realized it was moldy. I'm deathly allergic to penicillin so luckily I didn't consume any of it but my 3 kids were eating it. The date on the package says use by June 26th . I've tried returning the bread to the store I had purchased it from but they said there's nothing they can do about it and that I need to contact the company. So I'm hoping you will be able to resolve the issue. Thank you in advance

Just bought a package of hostess bakery petites from walmart today in springfield ohio today june 1 2019, ate one noticed it tasted funny looked in bag and ones at bottom were mushy and molded. There were some in bag that were melted like they had got hot but had just taken them out of the store, also the best by date said. March 2 2019. I took pictures i can send you if needed.

I purchased a loaf of bread for an outrageous price at the Aberdeen Washington Rite-aid on Thursday May 30th to make French dip sandwiches for dinner. When I got home I made a sandwich, the bread has a horrible plastic taste and smell to it. I had my husband take a bite of it, he agreed, the bread tasted terrible. The date on the package says it is good until JUN 26 19. My guess is this may have something to do with the taste, probably some kind of additive making it last longer, that gives it the plastic taste, since when does bread last for almost a month on the shelf?!?! After eating two bites my tongue started feeling numb and tingly, and there is a horrible taste I cannot get out of my mouth. I am very disgusted with your product.

I am writing in regards to your Hostess Donuts on the back for the nutrition facts it says serving size 3 Donuts and then it says about 5 servings per container well to me that would mean there should be about 15 Donuts in this package and I only got 10 so that's not about 5 servings that's only 3 servings so pretty much I'm missing 2 whole serving, I could understand if there was 14 or possibly even 13 at the lowest but not 2 whole complete servings missing out of the package. That would translate to me missing almost 40% of what it says I should have.

This isn't a complaint about the product, but about the fact that this was my favorite hostess treat and I really wish you would bring it back. Please? I always see people asking about them online. Now the only kind available that is comparable is made by Great Value. If you can bring back the Chocodile, you can bring back the raspberry filled powdered donut and I know it will be a success. Thank you.