Today I do a taste test comparing Hostess Cupcakes to Little Debbie Cupcakes. I hope you enjoy it. Got Roku? You can check out Tom Cote's 2 Roku channels: “FOOD SNOT” and “PUGS”. Need to contact Tom Cote: ****** FOOD SNOT: ****** TOM COTE: ****** PUGS: ****** ► FOOD SNOT FACEBOOK GROUP: ****** ► TOM’S FACEBOOK: ****** ► TWITTER: ****** ► INSTAGRAM: ****** ► GOOGLE : ****** ► YOUTUBE: ****** All music by FreshMusic.com Images by 123rf.com or Depositphotos.com Sound effects by ****** FYI: Tom Cote is pronounced Tom Cody ;) Recent Food Snot Food Reviews: Pringles Salted Caramel & Milk Chocolate Chips Review ****** Chips Ahoy Hot Cocoa Cookies Review ****** Winchell’s Cronas Donut Review ****** Burger King® | Buffalo Chicken Fries Review ****** Jack In The Box Spicy Nacho Curly Fries Review ****** Taco Bell® Fully Loaded Steak Boss Wrap Review ****** Popeyes New Spicy Garlic Butterfly Shrimp Review ****** General Mills Star Wars Cereal Review ****** Keebler Jif Peanut Butter Cookies Review ****** Lay’s Cheddar Bacon Mac & Cheese Potato Chips Review ****** McDonald’s New Secret Menu Item - McNorris ****** Hostess Brand Information... ****** Hostess CupCake is a brand of snack cake formerly produced and distributed by Hostess Brands and currently owned by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co. Its most common form is a chocolate cupcake with chocolate icing and vanilla creme filling, with eight distinctive white squiggles across the top. However, other flavors have been available at times. It has been claimed to be the first commercially produced cupcake, and has become an iconic American brand. The Hostess CupCake was first sold on May 11, 1919. Author Andrew F. Smith, it was the first commercially produced cupcake, originally produced by the Taggart Bakery as the Chocolate Cup Cake. Hostess has also claimed that it was "the first snack cake ever introduced to the market.” In 2004, rival Tastykake disputed this claim, claiming that Tastykake introduced the first snack cake. Originally, two cupcakes were sold for five cents. Different flavors were offered during the early years, including cupcakes topped with vanilla or malted milk flavored icing. During the 1940s, an orange flavored cupcake was developed, with orange cake and icing. But until 1950, the Hostess CupCake did not have any filling or the white squiggly line across the top. Little Debbie McKee Foods Information… ****** McKee Foods Corporation is a privately held United States snack food and granola manufacturer headquartered in Collegedale, Tennessee. The corporation is the maker of the Little Debbie Snacks, Sunbelt Bakery granola and cereal, Heartland Brands, and Drake's cakes. McKee Foods has its own fleet of trucks to distribute its products. The company was founded during the Depression by O.D. and Ruth McKee. O.D. started out selling cakes from his 1928 Whippet in the Chattanooga area. Wanting to expand, he bought a small bakery, Jack's Cookie Company. The bakery did well for a few years, but O.D. was still looking to expand. His father-in-law, however, didn't share his ideas. O.D. decided to sell his business, and start over. The McKees moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, into a new bakery designed by O.D. After some time, they sold the Charlotte plant. They moved back to Chattanooga in the early 1950s when Cecil King, Ruth's brother, was in poor health and needed the help. They decided to buy back the bakery, and run it themselves. McKee Baking Company moved to Collegedale in 1957. In 1991, McKee Baking Company became McKee Foods Corporation. The son of McKee Foods’ founder O.D. McKee, Ellsworth McKee took over, but retired from day-to-day operations in September 2012, but retains the position of company chairman. It was announced January 28, 2013, that McKee Foods would pay $27.5 million for Hostess Brands' Drake's brand, which includes Ring Dings, Yodels, and Devil Dogs products. As of 2013, McKee ships more than 900 million cartons of Little Debbie products.
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