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On today's trip to the Coffee Vending Machine (capitaized because it's a holy relic, of course), I noticed all the wonderful snack cakes in the neighboring machine. Alas, almost all of them were off-brand snacks ("Lucky Larry's Fruit Pie, filled with fruit, if you're lucky!"). I do believe in brand loyalty with junk food, having developed strong tastes when I was very young. So I was inspired to post a poll.

[Poll #77375]

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Date: 2002-11-21 06:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teapot-farm.livejournal.com
Damn you and your US-centric polls! Long live Mr Kipling, and his fine French Fancies!

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Date: 2002-11-21 06:29 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] gothwalk.livejournal.com
What she said. I'm not sure I'd eat anything with those titles. Here, we have good honest vending machines, selling chocolate, crisps, and coke.

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Date: 2002-11-21 06:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] voltbang.livejournal.com
Crisps? Are those like pork rinds or something? < sarcasm> Why don't you people speak english over there? </sarcasm>

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Date: 2002-11-21 07:00 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] gothwalk.livejournal.com
Nah. Pork rinds are for Brits. I'm talkin' Tayto.

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Date: 2002-11-21 07:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teapot-farm.livejournal.com
That's pork scratchings, thank you. 'Rinds' still doesn't quite sound insanitary enough...

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Date: 2002-11-21 08:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bheansidhe.livejournal.com
Actually we call 'em cracklings. Or cracklins. ;)

US-centric Snack Foods....

Date: 2002-11-21 06:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alphafem.livejournal.com
Yeah, what they said! We only get Hostess and Little Debbie's up here. But have you ever heard of Vachon? Best snacking sweet things ever...

Re: US-centric Snack Foods....

Date: 2002-11-21 07:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] postrodent.livejournal.com
Ooh, Vachon. Despite the unsettlingly bovine name, they were indeed quite good. Unsurprisingly, I haven't had a Vachon product since emigrating to the States.
In any case, I expect everyone on this thread to bow to the wisdom of the Brunching Shuttlecocks (http://www.brunching.com) and accept, now and forever, that there shall never be a better convenience-store cherry pie than that purveyed by Hostess. Or else. :>

Re: US-centric Snack Foods....

Date: 2002-11-21 07:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alphafem.livejournal.com
They are good... I think they're the ones who make Oh Caramel's... aka diabetes in shrink wrap!

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Date: 2002-11-21 07:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teapot-farm.livejournal.com
Hm. So what are the UK Milky Ways like?

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Date: 2002-11-21 06:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feather.livejournal.com
Mmmm, snack cakes....

Hi, by the way. :)

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Date: 2002-11-21 06:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] edie22.livejournal.com
I just want to know if you remembered the names of all those snacks or you had to look them up. =)

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Date: 2002-11-21 06:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] voltbang.livejournal.com
Just the thought of eating anything named "Little Debbie."


One of my biggest crushes ever was a girl named Debbie, and yeah, she was little.

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Date: 2002-11-21 08:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mfree.livejournal.com
*hemmmm* *hawwwww*

Oh I can't resist.

was she tasty?

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Date: 2002-11-21 07:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chrisv.livejournal.com
You left out Dolly Madison? Sure, Zingers and other treats are now sporting Hostess labels (both are part of Interstate Brands now), but who could forget the fruit pies with the Peanuts characters on them? They were a staple of my school lunches when I was a kid.

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Date: 2002-11-21 07:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chrisv.livejournal.com
You've never had a Zinger? The chocolate ones are da bomb.

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Date: 2002-11-21 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamcowgirl.livejournal.com
I remember then because Lucy and Sally used to be on the wrappers for pink snowballs ~~They never tasted very good but had to have them cause of the Peanuts on them ~~

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Date: 2002-11-21 09:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sage-and-sea.livejournal.com
Seconding the Dolly Madison love - it's the first thing I thought of. The Zingers, etc, that Hostess has started selling are but pale imitations of the originals.

I've heard of TastyKakes, but not the other one. And I don't eat Little Debbie's because that would be cannibalistic!!

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Date: 2002-11-21 09:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] welcomerain.livejournal.com
Yeah! I was looking for the Dolly Madison question! I LOVE Zingers!

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Date: 2002-11-21 09:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chrisv.livejournal.com
Oh wow... great icon! Now I'm going to have the Immigrant Song in my head all afternoon.

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Date: 2002-11-21 07:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auryn29a.livejournal.com
Wow. So far I'm the only one who loves Suzie Qs. That was my favorite food when I was in high school.

Re:

Date: 2002-11-21 08:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auryn29a.livejournal.com
Man, that was the best part! You didn't eat a Suzie Q if you didn't end up messy. It was like sex!

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Date: 2002-11-21 07:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] m0usegrrl.livejournal.com
it's all about Hostess Pies, yo...

Hostess Pies

Date: 2002-11-21 09:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolfieboy.livejournal.com
I actually still regularly have the Hostess Apple Pies even though I don't do much sugar...

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Date: 2002-11-21 09:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gladstone.livejournal.com
Blueberry, please.

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Date: 2002-11-21 07:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mfree.livejournal.com
The BEST... Nutty bars dipped in Yoplait's Cherry Orchard Yogurt.

I've taken to dumping various flavors of yogurt over Walmart's cheap creme cake slices, like banana nut,etc.

And I wonder why I never lose any weight...

Being a Philly Girl

Date: 2002-11-21 07:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamcowgirl.livejournal.com
It is Tastykakes without a doubt that top my list of snack cakes ~~the ones you listed are the ones they sell in certain parts of the country but locally they have alot of special region ones that rock ~~But the top selling peanutbutter kandykakes rock ~~In the summer we keep them in the frezer and eat them frozen ~~

I have sent them so many places because when my borhter lived n seattle he could not get them and my aunt in Texas has us send them all the time ~~~


**runs to the store to satisfy craving**

Re: Being a Philly Girl

Date: 2002-11-21 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bouncepogo.livejournal.com
I live outside Philly!

I grew up here but I lived in Texas recently for a while and my parents would ship me Herr's potato chips and Tastykakes. Mmmmmmmm.

Nobody bakes a kake as tasty as a Tastykake...

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Date: 2002-11-21 08:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bheansidhe.livejournal.com
I HAVE SO heard of Tasty Kakes. My friend from Philadelphia used to get care packages while we were in Louisiana. But they are stale and nasty. So there. :)

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Date: 2002-11-21 09:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolfieboy.livejournal.com
Drake's Cake???

I haven't had a PB Tasty Kake for a long time. I know what I'll do for lunch.

I still have to be careful with the Nutty Bars. It's easy to buy the box, have one, look up and notice the box is empty...

(Psst. Kroger's is evil. QFC has been going downhill since Kroger's bought them.)

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Date: 2002-11-21 12:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galateadia.livejournal.com
i have to go with loving little debbies, mostly because i loathe hostess and have never heard of the others. i like dolly madison though - dolly madison carrot cakes, those rock.
you know what is horrible though? liking little debbies and then going to college right next to the factory where they make them. smelling strawberry rolls every morning on the way to class is enough to make you puke. the smell of those still makes me get queasy.

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Date: 2002-11-21 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eilonwy.livejournal.com
Yum, TastyKakes... Not that I can get very many down here in VA. But I come from PA, land of the TastyKakes, home of the TastyKakes, long live the TastyKakes!

But I prefer the KandyKakes, not the peanut butter ones. ::nods:: And the fudge brownies! and the fruit pies! and the donuts!

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Date: 2002-11-21 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gladstone.livejournal.com
Hostess fruit pies--mmmm!

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Date: 2002-11-21 09:41 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
I really don't care for any of them... it's a sort of best of bad world proposition for me.

...Though I must admit to a sneaking liking for the fruit pies. Especially the lemon ones.

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