Super User Bassn Blvd Posted November 6, 2008 Super User Posted November 6, 2008 They are MMMMMMMGood! But what in the heck was Hostess thinking by naming this tasty treat "Ding Dong?" Your buddy calls you up and asks "what are you doing?" and you reply "Nothing much. Just eating a creme filled chocolate DingDong." Or perhaps you're grocery shopping with the wife and you yell out to her from a different isle "Honey, do you want some Ding Dongs?" What other foods have "off the wall" names? Quote
Super User fourbizz Posted November 6, 2008 Super User Posted November 6, 2008 I know Tin is a big fan of chocolate ding dongs... Quote
Super User Dan: Posted November 6, 2008 Super User Posted November 6, 2008 isn't "Ding Dong" the obvious pairing for "Ho-Hos"? Quote
Super User Tin Posted November 6, 2008 Super User Posted November 6, 2008 I know Tin is a big fan of chocolate ding dongs... mmm, I like how your girl feeds them to me. Quote
Super User fourbizz Posted November 6, 2008 Super User Posted November 6, 2008 She was telling me about that. She asked if people usually took them as suppositories. Quote
Super User Tin Posted November 6, 2008 Super User Posted November 6, 2008 She was telling me about that. She asked if people usually took them as suppositories. Right now I would take them over all this gause, tape, and stitches. Quote
Pitchinkid Posted November 6, 2008 Posted November 6, 2008 ive never actually had 1 ding dong/ho ho. pretty much eat the whole box when i get them. with a glass of milk of course Quote
Pitchinkid Posted November 6, 2008 Posted November 6, 2008 lol now that is some cool pis lol lol lol lol lol ;D lol what you drinkin? Some coolpis! lol awesome Quote
toolpush Posted November 6, 2008 Posted November 6, 2008 Coolpis, now that right there is funny, I don't care who you are. Hilarious. ;D Quote
Super User Muddy Posted November 6, 2008 Super User Posted November 6, 2008 NAME CHANGE, an interesting read: The company's founder, Newman E. Drake, baked his first pound cake in Brooklyn in 1888. He sold it by the slice. Popularity increased, and soon a whole line of cakes was produced. The company's operations eventually spread to 13 states. This remote presence was because of the many people from the north who retired and moved to Florida. Drake's were at one time perhaps the only kosher snack cakes on the market; as most other bakers used lard (rendered hog fat) or beef tallow (even though this fat can be obtained from kosher beef, it rarely is, and in any event animal fat is still forbidden under kosher laws to be used with the dairy products commonly used in baking). In New York City and New England, Drake's became perhaps the most popular snack cake, rivaling national brand Hostess. In New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, they also rival that area's popular Tastykake brand. However, they remained largely unknown outside of these areas. They were, however, made known across the country in the late 1990s by television talk show host Rosie O'Donnell's professed fondness for them; she served the cakes to her audience members on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. At one point in the past, a legal conflict erupted, when Hostess began producing a cake that looked like Drake's popular "Ring Dings", and even named it "Ding Dongs". Hostess ended up having to change the name of this cake to "Big Wheels" in areas in which Drake's cakes were sold. By the 1980s, Drake Bakeries was owned by the huge Borden food company, along with Cracker Jacks and Wise potato chips. In 1987, Borden sold the company to Ralston Purina, which owned ITT Continental Baking Company, makers of rival Hostess Cakes and Wonder Bread. This created a virtual monopoly in some areas, and it soon broke up. However, while this union lasted, Hostess was able to use the "Ding Dongs" name in the formerly restricted areas, but when the union was dissolved, instead of restoring the "Big Wheels" moniker, Hostess compromised with a new "King Dons" trademark for the affected areas. In the mean time, Drake's celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1988, by producing the world's largest Ring Ding cake. Quote
Super User Bassn Blvd Posted November 6, 2008 Author Super User Posted November 6, 2008 Thanks for the research Muddy. Very interesting. Slomoe, I have never seen or heard of "Coolpis" but that is frickin hilarious. Quote
slomoe Posted November 6, 2008 Posted November 6, 2008 Its Korean I think. www.engrish.com has tons of funny product translations. ;D ;D Quote
BUCKEYEone Posted November 7, 2008 Posted November 7, 2008 Its Korean I think. www.engrish.com has tons of funny product translations. ;D ;D Thanks a lot, now I just wasted the last full hour of the work day! Quote
Super User cart7t Posted November 8, 2008 Super User Posted November 8, 2008 Drakes coffee cakes were also a long time running gag on the Seinfeld show. Quote
Super User Muddy Posted November 8, 2008 Super User Posted November 8, 2008 Drakes coffee cakes were also a long time running gag on the Seinfeld show. I didn't even know they had feet Quote
SDoolittle Posted November 8, 2008 Posted November 8, 2008 This isn't food, but it cracked me up! Quote
Fisher of Men Posted November 9, 2008 Posted November 9, 2008 I don't know what's worse, but Break Cake (a subsidiary of Earthgrains, Inc.) used to call their knock-off brand "Hoot'n Toots". I used to make them for a month or two before getting my first teaching job. Quote
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