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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

Man… American food culture :P

Whenever I watch an 80′s commerical it seems like they were all trying too hard, and the result would be that wonderful cheesyness we’ve all come to… love?

great article Matt! XO

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 03/02/2004 8:49 AM

i never saw these things when i was a kid,where the hell was i?and x o is lost on me also

Chestnuts roasted by meef @ 03/02/2004 8:54 AM

Matt once again your knowledge of the obscure saves the day. I’ve been racking my brain for the last two weeks trying to remember what the hell these things were called. I applaud you sir for your tireless efforts. Good Show.
And as a side know, I was able to score some Chocodiles recently and they are just as good as I remember.

Chestnuts roasted by Brias @ 03/02/2004 10:21 AM

Want Choco-Diles?

909-686-5932
Wonder/Hostess Bakery #7034
2215 Third St
Riverside, CA 92501

They got em…

Chestnuts roasted by Jon @ 03/02/2004 10:48 AM

I was more of a kudos and funny bones man myself, but i love these articles! keep them coming.

Chestnuts roasted by mikey @ 03/02/2004 11:05 AM

I was a junor when these monstrosities were out, and I had a couple back then. mmmmmmmmmmm…..Choco….Blissssss…. And, like Matt pointed out, they stayed with you for quite some time. And as a diabetic now, I’d gladly risk my health for a few more. It’s a challenge to indulge my chocolate jones when most sugar free brands can be used as emergency laxitive. blorgh.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/02/2004 11:56 AM

Exo = Outside

So it was basically an 80′s slang term equivalent for "far out"

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 03/02/2004 12:15 PM

Ok, so Hostess deserves the genital warts for getting rid of choco-bliss, but I have one thing to say, and I’ve been saying it since Matt first tacked a message board to this site all those years ago,

*cough*

WHERE’S MY FUCKING PUDDIN PIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (please note the valid use of exclamations to portay anger)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t care if they ass rape the the pope with every fruit pie left in the world, I want ma puddin’ pies, you bastards.

Chestnuts roasted by Toxikfoxx @ 03/02/2004 12:33 PM

Hostess Tiger Tails = Gone

Hostess Choco-Bliss = Gone

Hostess Pudding PIes = Gone

BUT! There is a petition…

http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/hostesspuddingpies/

Chestnuts roasted by Randomkill @ 03/02/2004 12:57 PM

More on the extinct junk food topic. I mourned the day when the Ferrara Pan Company quit making their “Mr. Melon” candy. It was pretty much a fat watermelon flavored Jelly Belly, but so much better. My fondest childhood memory is hanging out at the city pool in 1986, Nu Shooz’s “I Can’t Wait” playing off in the distance and a box of Mr. Melon in my hand.

I even went so far to write the company about the now defunct candy. They gave me some lame excuse that the candy was discontinued in the early ‘90s and the company has no immediate plans to bring it back. The company makes some sort of watermelon flavored lemonhead, but it sucks. Damnit.

Chestnuts roasted by Fletch F. Fletch @ 03/02/2004 1:12 PM

Me no remember this either.

Benny is pretty freakin’ scary. Yow!

Chestnuts roasted by Goonie4Life @ 03/02/2004 1:32 PM

"Chocolate on top of Chocolate, behind chocolate, under chocolate wrapped in chocolate…"
"Triple Chocolatey Outta Control!"
"Yeah!"

XO? Who the hell ever said XO? I think Hostess was trying to coin a new term, and obviously failed miserably.

Chestnuts roasted by Never Eat Shredded Wheat @ 03/02/2004 1:33 PM

Ox! Ox I say! But not Xuxa.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/02/2004 2:04 PM

Never Eat Shredded Wheat – Chris explained above that it was "Exo", not "XO".

Chestnuts roasted by Julie @ 03/02/2004 2:04 PM

XO? I presumed it meant ‘Excellent’

Also…..Benny looks so familiar, I’m sure I’ve seen his older face in a film somewhere. hmm…

Chestnuts roasted by Rondette @ 03/02/2004 2:19 PM

Is Chris’ theory of "Exo", as opposed to "XO", substantiated by anyone else? As a kid who had his finger on the pulse of much bad 80′s slang, I have never heard it before.

Chestnuts roasted by Never Eat Shredded Wheat @ 03/02/2004 3:00 PM

Actually they sale tiger tails at the gas station next door to my work. One of the guys I work with bought one the other day, but he wouldn’t share. That was just mean.

Chestnuts roasted by redslurpee @ 03/02/2004 4:42 PM

I go to school in Riverside, CA! And yes, our snack shop sells Choco-Diles. I had no idea they were so rare elsewhere.

But that’s a crying shame that they don’t make this Choco-Bliss anymore. Or that my Internet video player doesn’t work for that video.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 03/02/2004 5:56 PM

I think for the sake of argument, we should stick with XO; it’s easier to type, and will confuse the hell out of everyone else (if it doesn’t already).

Chestnuts roasted by evenbetter @ 03/02/2004 6:03 PM

eks-sew, eks-sew, eks-sew.
Three in a row, tic-tac-toe.
a-a-a-a-awe-some!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/02/2004 6:11 PM

lol.
looks like your evil twin is back kingklash. Lucky you.

Chestnuts roasted by Never Eat Shredded Wheat @ 03/02/2004 6:27 PM

Yeah, I deleted the second KK comment since it wasn’t made by him.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/02/2004 6:30 PM

but at the very least it was kinda funny. :p

Chestnuts roasted by Never Eat Shredded Wheat @ 03/02/2004 6:32 PM

I don’t know if Kingklash would prefer people to think he refers to himself as a "h-h-homo," but if that’s the case, more power to him. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/02/2004 6:33 PM

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