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In the wake of the great Choco-Dile hunt, I've made a hobby of gathering up information on hard-to-find/discontinued Hostess treats, because such info comes in handy at social gatherings and client luncheons. From Choco-Bliss devil cakes to spotted "Tiger Tail" Twinkies, the world of Hostess is one filled with as many forgotten treats and mascot characters as snacks still on the shelves. Here's another, and I challenge you to find one more obscure."Grizzly Chomps" arrived in the early 90's, which was an interesting era for kid-related marketing endeavors. Companies and their chosen ad agencies weren't quite over the gaudy cheese of 80's kid marketing, but with the rise of the Ninja Turtles and a major upswing in the surfer/skater/blader/cooldude department, everything became forcibly "hip" to the highest degree. From asinine lingo to every graphic needing to look like a lazy Trapper Keeper design, nothing was safe from these terrible new ideas about what kids were made of -- not even Hostess snack cakes.
What I'm getting at is, Grizzly Chomps was a brand of sprinkled cupcakes fronted by a bear, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, who dances and snowboards. I CAN RELATE TO THIS!
The cupcakes were fat free, and while that was a plus for parents buying lunchbox-fillers for their kids, it also meant that Grizzly Chomps didn't taste as amazing as most other cupcake brands. Hostess needed some big time gimmicks if they wanted children to get past that. A television commercial starring the bear version of Rude Dog helped, but the strategy went even deeper. The cupcakes were each "personally tested" by ol' Grizzly himself, meaning that each cupcake came with a big bite already taken out of it. This technically meant that we got less cake per cup, but that's still a pretty cool gimmick.
Between that and the addition of enough calorie-free rainbow sprinkles to turn any mouth into Vegas, Grizzly Chomps almost had enough gusto to stay with us for the long haul. Almost. Click here to download the Grizzly Chomps commercial.
Posted by Matt on 08/19/2006. E-mail me!
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