<p>I knew someone who worked at the uber-white-shoe law firm Cravath back in the day. Tricia Nixon Cox–her husband, Ed Cox, was with the firm–contributed a recipe for Twinkie Delight (or maybe that should be Delite 
) to a cookbook the firm put together. IIRC, it featured Twinkies and Kool Whip. Kind of like a trifle or charlotte that would survive nuclear holocaust.</p>
<p>In the late 70s, this had cosmic significance.</p>
<p>PS Personally, I preferred the orange cupcakes.</p>
<p>All that stuff, and soda, were somewhat alien when i was a kid. Twinkies where admired, but Funny Bones, FTW.</p>
<p>Ok , and Drakes coffee cakes .</p>
<p>Check out this video on YouTube:</p>
<p><a href=“Seinfeld: Drake's Coffee Cakes - YouTube”>Seinfeld: Drake's Coffee Cakes - YouTube;
<p>Sent from my iPad</p>
<p>I have never even heard of Funny Bones. ?</p>
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<p>I grew up outside New York City. Drake’s was a local brand. Yodels were like the swiss chocolate rolls. Yankee doodles were chocolate cupcakes. Devil dogs were also chocolate and cream filled. Funny bones were filled with peanut butter. You get the picture.</p>
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<p>But you’ve heard of yodels, yankee doodles, and devil dogs? I’ve never heard of any of them! Greek to me.</p>
<p>EDIT: cross posted with Mansfield</p>
<p>Ahhh! I was NYC too! I didn’t know it was local, but devil dogs were not nearly as “special” as Twinkies. Of course, I am aware that the Wonder Bread became some kind of movie studio in Queens just before I moved away.</p>
<p>Oh! That was Silvercup.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.silvercupstudios.com/[/url]”>http://www.silvercupstudios.com/</a></p>
<p>no not yankee doodles & I have heard of devil dogs but don’t know what they are.
I think yodels were some sort of popcorn flavored snack?</p>
<p>Tried to look up Drakes but there is a Wikipedia blackout. Really should do something about that…</p>
<p>Being a Southern gal, I learned about Drakes from the Seinfield episode about it. Seinfield also taught me about Chocolate Bobka (Babka?) and black & white cookies. There must be some wonderful bakeries in New York :).</p>
<p>Any MoonPie fans?</p>
<p>I don’t know what those are either.
I grew up in Seattle. We had Hostess fruit pies, twinkies & ding dongs, but by the time I was old enough to buy them myself, my tastebuds had changed.</p>
<p>You have never heard of a " RC cola and a moon pie"? There was even a song about this famous combination.</p>
<p>Sorry.
I did see that Drakes & Hostess are the same company so that explains a little.</p>
<p>I think RC cola & moon pies are a Southern thing, from googling.
I grew up in the Seattle suburbs & my mom wouldn’t buy Hawaiian punch let alone snack cakes.
Plus I see a lot of the aforementioned treats are “chocolate”
I don’t like chocolate- never have. Now, I will go for " artisanal" chocolate, especially if it is that time of the month, but when I was a kid I didn’t like it.
I liked vanilla ice cream & ginger beer not cola, & I liked things like corn nuts better than sweet.</p>
<p>I do wonder what the kids going to camp on the boata are going to bring Mooselips though, if Twinkies aren’t being made. 
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<p>DH (a boy from the Bronx) grew up with Drakes…the ding-dongs go in the freezer.</p>
<p>I was a Suzy-Q girl. Haven’t had one in years, though.</p>
<p>When I head south, I bring back a box of moon-pies for my co-workers. They disappear in moments. Cracker Barrel sells them, too.</p>
<p>Here is an amazing list of all this Hostess. Ho Hos , Orange cupcakes and some other orange deliciousness were my favorites.</p>
<p>[Hostess</a> Nutritional Information](<a href=“http://caloriecount.about.com/hostess-nutrition-m1443]Hostess”>Best and Worst Snack Chips: Calories and Nutrition)</p>
<p>oh my, deep fryed twinkies are on this list.</p>
<p>and this hostess site describing them all</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hostesscakes.com/[/url]”>http://www.hostesscakes.com/</a></p>
<p>Drakes and Hostess are the same company? So that means Ding Dongs and Ring Dings will BOTH be gone? Oh, the calamity of it all…</p>
<p>I like their little cinnamon coffee cakes too, but Costco has a good substitute, so all is not lost. </p>
<p>I would like to have a moment of silence for twinkies, ring dings and ding dongs though…</p>
<p>We had a school field trip to the Wonder Bread factory in Framingham when I was a kid and it was cool to see how they made the bread.</p>
<p>I was thinking of buying a small package of Twinkies so that my wife and kids could see what they were like - they’ve never had them to my knowledge. I used to like Drake’s Devil Cakes too. That was a long time ago - I haven’t had any of this stuff since I was a teenager.</p>
<p>I watched a piece on this on the national news the other day. The reporter was out and about in the city (don’t know which one) asking people their opinions of the Hostess bankruptcy. Most expressed dismay at the thought of Twinkies becoming extinct, but when offered one by the reporter, many said “nah, no thanks.”</p>
<p>Its a different generation, Baby Boomers are no longer kids, in fact they are in the grandparents category. Healthy food concerns came into play, fewer in the younger generation will eat twinkies, drakes and wonder breads. My W won’t eat any white breads, we only have multi-grains in our house.</p>
<p>^^^Baby boomer here, no grandkids yet; I switched over to whole grains over 20 years ago. When DH got colon cancer, his prescribed diet during treatment was easy to digest foods-white bread, white rice and potatoes, etc. I remember walking through the grocery store feeling really weird with loaves of white bread in my cart for the first time in decades. I was almost embarrassed to be seen with it, lol, it so went against my instincts.</p>
<p>I rarely ever eat anything with sugar or white flour in it. I never did care for Twinkies, but even if I had, I would also have declined the Twinkie offered by the reporter.</p>