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New Article: Hostess Choco-Bliss!

This one's been mentioned by one of you blog commentator types a few times, so I figured, what the Hell, let's put up a tribute to Hostess Choco-Bliss. Unlike Choco-Diles, these cakes are totally extinct and live on only through sweet memories and X-E's exclusive commercial download featuring "Benny," the boy who lost his friends to cake. The article is short and sweet. Choco-Bliss cakes were sweet. It was an intentional connection.

Posted by Matt on 03/01/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 92 comments

First post?

Chestnuts roasted by Scott @ 03/01/2004 9:33 PM

Yay! Also, I used to love these things. I vaguely remember peeling the top layer of frosting off and eating it separately. I miss the Bliss.

Chestnuts roasted by Scott @ 03/01/2004 9:34 PM

Third? Hey, I’m on the medal stand!

Chestnuts roasted by MonsterDog @ 03/01/2004 9:38 PM

I don’t remember these, or even the commercials. As I live in a small town in an area of New Jersey where people only converge in between May and October, we only got the basic junk food and the occasional major fad. This also may have only been avalible in specific parts of the country, like the Choco-diles.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 03/01/2004 9:38 PM

awesome

Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 03/01/2004 9:51 PM

does anyone know the year these things came out? I have no relection of these. The guy in the ad, Benny looks like that guy who plays Seth in the OC. I’d like to put in a request for those old Hostess cupcakes, I forget the name the one that the bear took a bite out of.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 03/01/2004 9:56 PM

I always ate these things by pulling the two cakes apart. Made me feel like I was eating four treats.

I think these they came out in 86 or 87. At least I remember getting sick from eating them around that time. And they were making them at least 10 years ago. I remember going to a gas station when I was 15 and thinking about that TV spot. This is one that has stuck with me for a very long time, and I don’t know why.

On a somewhat related note of website self-promotion, my website (http://rayzak.com/dre) has Sushi made from Hostess Cakes. Check it out!

Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak (my website has hostess sushi!) @ 03/01/2004 10:12 PM

"Anyone who ate this stuff ended up looking like they tried to give oral to a shitting bear’s ass" that brought me to tears it really did

Chestnuts roasted by scourge @ 03/01/2004 10:13 PM

This is me, kicking my ISP’s ass for not letting me send normal email.

Anyway, I have some information regarding your bag o’crap article, and since I can’t send it to you via email, I’ll just paste it here. Hope ya don’t mind.

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http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0856/junk/42.html

That bubble gum seems to be of Mexican origin; I say this because well, I live there, and I’ve
bought that particular brand of gum for the last sixteen years. Although,I don’t really remember
it ever having that sort of packaging [the design, at least] so it has tobe from before 1988. The
green one is "Yerbabuena", sort of like the wintergreen flavored gum thatyou guys have, and
the other one is simply tutti-frutti… kinda like sweet fruit gum. I
can’t explain it.

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0856/junk/38.html

I distinctly remember seeing this sometime in the mid 1980′s. I remember
getting one as a prize in an old cereal box, though I thought it was pretty shitty. All
you have to do is blow on one of the holes and make the ball go up. And that’s the entire point.

And uh, that’s it. I’ve seen some really weird candy down here, mostly
old, and well, if you
want some, I can send them. It’s no problem, plus you get to experience
the horror that is
having candy that tastes hotter than tabasco sauce.

Er, yeah. Later.
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So there. Bye.

Chestnuts roasted by Kitsune Sniper @ 03/01/2004 10:55 PM

You finnaly got it out huh?
People like us have been watching this article all day..

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 03/01/2004 11:00 PM

W000h..
someone missed the magic..
heeey mr. mrxstaplxz
play dat funky music…
hehe,
w0000h sorry dude..

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 03/01/2004 11:03 PM

Y’know Matt, I’m pretty sure custom neon signs are a lot less trouble to get than what you’re willing to do to get the one from this commercial.
Then again, maybe you don’t mind losin’ a leg for total authenticity. You ate Nad’s Cream, how am I supposed to predict your neon-sign-obtaining-preferences…?

Chestnuts roasted by Rewolf J @ 03/01/2004 11:11 PM

Holy Coincedence Batman! Why just tonight I sampled Hostess’s latest snack treat Devil’s Food Cake Twinkies. As you would expect they were just normal Devil’s Food Cake snacks except they were shaped like Twinkies.
Yes it seems Hostess’s legendary snack engineers just phoned this one in. Makes me long for the days of Choco Diles and Choco Bliss.

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 03/01/2004 11:32 PM

Hey, I was just watching Unscrewed With Martin Sargent, and guess who was on!?! Robert Berry, from Retrocrush. Yeah, him! On TV! And I was watching!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 03/01/2004 11:52 PM

I asked at my recently downsized Hostess Day Old Bakery about how to get ahold of Tiger Tails. The lady told me she hadn’t seen any in the Hostess stores in a long time, and that I’d probably have better luck at a 7-11 type place. No wonder Hostess Bakery stores are floundering, they’re letting their competitors get ahold of all the good stuff!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 03/02/2004 12:36 PM

I’ve been getting a couple Choco-Diles pretty much everytime I go to the store since they’re only $0.37 each… But last night, I made my way to my favorite isle to find that they were no longer there, and had been replaced with these Caremel Ho-Ho’s. There is no God.

Chestnuts roasted by Lauren @ 03/02/2004 12:41 PM

Matt, that commerical…what? This is as bad as the commericals for Jolt cola, where they explicitly tell you it contains twice the amount of caffine. The choco bliss ad reminds me disturbingly of opium dens and the korova milk bar from A Clockwork orange. And is it just me, or did "Benny" look like the evil clone of Fred "the wizard" Savage? I rest my case.

Chestnuts roasted by Jimkaider @ 03/02/2004 2:02 AM

I can kind of see the evil Fred Savage clone comparison. For some reason, Benny kind of scares me. Not sure why.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrea @ 03/02/2004 2:42 AM

choco-bliss sounds a lot like what I thought chocolicious were. are chocolicious still around, and were they the same thing as choco-bliss?

Chestnuts roasted by jag @ 03/02/2004 2:48 AM

I can’t believe that Hostess would kill off such an amazing sounding cake.

Chestnuts roasted by Ian @ 03/02/2004 2:54 AM

sadly i dont remember these…

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 03/02/2004 3:12 AM

I only tried these once, after talking my mom into buying them. I ate the whole box in a couple of days, and that was the last time she let me have any. I was a fat kid. I’m now a fat adult on a weight loss program. Mmmmm… chocolate.

Chestnuts roasted by Hope @ 03/02/2004 3:52 AM

Matt, for the sake of Joe "Gremlins" Dante please look into reviewing "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" on DVD. I have yet to see it, but it sounds like it might parallel his perfect "Gremlins 2" in amount of gags and jokes. If X-E could help in DVD sales for this box office failure then maybe we could all be that much closer to "Gremlins 3."

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 03/02/2004 4:48 AM

Word. X .. O … foo’. XO!

Chestnuts roasted by burp @ 03/02/2004 5:25 AM

Thats it! Those are the things I was talking about when you mentioned Chocodiles. These were always my snack cake of choise. I loved Choco-Bliss. So much chocolatey goodness that I could never understand why anyone would choose anything different! But this also saddens me because after the Chocodile article, I looked everywhere for these. Now they are sadly extinct. If anyone does happen to stumble upon them, let me know! I will certainly buy a case, and I don’t care what the expiration date is!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 03/02/2004 8:16 AM

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