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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

Hey Matt,
Where do you get all this archived footage of commericals and shows? Do you find it online, or is it your own personal collection? The level of obscurity of this stuff is amazing!?

Chestnuts roasted by Never Eat Shredded Wheat @ 03/02/2004 6:38 PM

Andrew, and anyone else, get the Media Player Classic:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358
It is free and works with most types of video and audio from various other players. It looks like the classic Windows Media Player. You still need to download the various player for it to work though:
Windows Media Player for .wmv, .asx and .asf files
QuickTime Player .mov and .mp4 files
Real Player for .rm and .ram files
DIVX codec for .avi files

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 03/02/2004 6:49 PM

I checked Hostess’s official website for a product listing but couldn’t find one. It’d be interesting to know what other skeletons are hiding in Hotess’s snack closet.

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 03/02/2004 7:38 PM

Meatwad –

Hostess Chocobliss
Hostess Oat Bran Muffins
Hostess O’s
Hostess Pudding Pies
Hostess Tiger Tails (Strawberry Twinkies)

That’s all according to this site:
http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/btwgb.asp

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 03/02/2004 8:35 PM

Thanks for the link it brings back so many memories. Strange about Tiger Tails I just saw a bunch of them at the grocery store a month ago. They don’t have any now but I never figured they were discontinued.

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 03/02/2004 9:31 PM

You know I don’t remember ever trying these, but that is probably because I am Canadian and we have some weird food laws about what is allowed up here and what isn’t. At least I get Twinkies.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 03/02/2004 9:42 PM

I LOVED these! We used to have to beg my mom to buy them cuz they were such garbage, and it’d stick to your fingers and youd end up with this chocolate cake stuff on the pads of your fingers in little ovals. I want a choco-bliss now. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Fangry @ 03/02/2004 10:01 PM

I remember getting these as well as TMNT Pudding pies at our local Hostess bakery as a child. But my favorite has always been devil food twinkees, have not found any since 1987

Chestnuts roasted by chris @ 03/03/2004 12:55 PM

Tiger Tails aren’t gone. I just bought some a few days ago.

Chestnuts roasted by Ian @ 03/03/2004 5:10 AM

Hey Matt and everyone,
I’ve been a lurker for a few months now and ever since I landed upon this site with a random search on Oscar Mayer Lunchables, I have never looked back! Excellent job on this site…I finally found someone else who appreciates all these 80′s and 90′s random products, sitcoms, commercials…etc…

Question though…After reading the Choco-Bliss article (those things were damn good), I started thinking about these cupcakes (I believe, made by Hostess) from like early 90′s that were colored chocolate cupcakes with a bite taken out of them. Something like Grizzly Chompers?? I cannot think of the name for the life of me right now and I have been forever searching on the internet during my work shift. Humor me and please tell me you know what I am talking about! :) This was when I still lived on Long Island, and I believe they sold them elsewhere too..I shall continue my search meanwhile….

Chestnuts roasted by Renee @ 03/03/2004 9:51 AM

benny looks very much like one of the Savage family. Ben Savage, or the other one whose name i can’t remember.

Chestnuts roasted by chico del nacho @ 03/03/2004 10:35 AM

I was having an attack of x there for a moment. Exo Squad, Exo Frames, Exo Skeletons, X-O Manowar, that sort of thing. And playing Toss Across with water balloons. Loser gets bombed back to Pangea. And shot with the water gun you could load up with ice.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/03/2004 11:23 AM

I never had these. I hadn’t heard ofthem until today but man, these did look good. Even though they proboly had more fat than a Hippo!

Chestnuts roasted by The Dragonrider @ 03/03/2004 2:03 PM

"I did not play a homo in Ben Hur!"

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash channeling Chuck Heston @ 03/03/2004 3:14 PM

I’d be surprised if that kid survived the commercial shoot, the way he jams that chocolaty monstrosity wholesale into his maw. I would image he immediately fell into a sugar-shock coma and never recovered.

Chestnuts roasted by Ummagumma @ 03/03/2004 3:15 PM

No joke: In middle school, I used to eat these every day for lunch. One day I gave one to a friend, and the next day he asked if I was gonna eat it… I said no and gave it to him. Next day, he asked again. I said I was gonna eat it, and he totally freaked out and started screaming and pounding on the table. These things shoulda had a warning label. Just one dose will hook ya!

Chestnuts roasted by Mike T @ 03/03/2004 5:26 PM

I can also find Tiger Tails easily.
What I REALLY want though is some Cambell’s Southwest-style Chicken Vegetable soup. I haven’t seen any in my town for years… I guess I could always try making money on Ebay by selling Tiger Tails for a little more than I paid.

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 03/03/2004 7:05 PM

Choco-Bliss was the king of junk foods, if only for a brief while. I still remember the time back in elementary school when my mom packed one in my lunch every day for a week.

I can’t remember for sure, but I seem to recall eating one of these some time in the not too distant past. Of course, it could’ve just been some generic snack cake that only resembled a Choco-Bliss.

I don’t believe I’ve ever eaten either a Choco-Dile or a Tiger Tail, however.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew Morse @ 03/03/2004 7:50 PM

I used to work with this girl who instead of saying "no" when asked to do something she would answer by saying "shan’t", but she pronounced it "shont". This has nothing to do with this article but it is something I wished to share.

Chestnuts roasted by shinymetallic @ 03/04/2004 5:02 PM

…the kind of throat-tickling whipped creme that sent chills all the way down to your testicles…a swollen baton of chocolate wonder…ended up looking like they tried to give oral to a shitting bear’s ass. You gotta love this site. Kudos Matt, you have once again outdone yourself in the quest to describe obscure 80′s shit in a unique and entertaining manner. Mmmmm Kudos

Chestnuts roasted by King A @ 03/04/2004 9:51 PM

Auctually Choco-Bliss is being sold in a Walmart near me…. out on Long Island. I had no idea they were virtually gone…

Chestnuts roasted by EBK @ 03/06/2004 2:42 PM

Walmart!

We have to go there?

Chestnuts roasted by Randomkill @ 03/07/2004 9:20 PM

XO = short for Excellent

These came out about 1987, they WERE available in NJ, and I’d sell my firstborn for just one Choco Bliss, once a month. Washed down w/YooHoo.

Chestnuts roasted by stricken_detective @ 03/16/2004 6:36 AM

They still have them, but under the name Suzy Qs.

Chestnuts roasted by Homepie @ 03/24/2004 8:19 PM

Like listening to the audio version of "ChocoBliss" isn’t the funniest thing I’ve ever heard in my life! Hahaha! Happy Easter!

Chestnuts roasted by Goonie4Life @ 04/11/2004 9:20 AM

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