Hostess Brands
reviews and complaints

Packages not closed due to cake packing malfunction. There are supposed to be 3 cakes in a package the box we bought had 4 cakes crammed into 1 package, which led to smashed dry cakes and the packages being open at one end. We had to throw them away. Obviously a manufacturing mishap in the packaging process. Bar code #[protected] Best by Feb 16 2023 numbers under best by are J12 08 23000A3420925

Purchased yesterday, best by date of Feb 19 2023 lot #[protected] 4, not sure what nastyness these were made with but somthing was definelty WRONG, they were gross, and had to throw the entire bag away. What a waste of my $, granted only $2.50 but that was horrible! Hostess is DEFINETLY NOT the HOSTESS we all knew. Was a long term customer, but oh well : (Better alert WALMART they are selling your product that will make customers sick!

16 count of hostess twinkies I purchased at wall on12/31/22 after getting home and eating 2 I felt like something wasn't right and they had expired on 11/13/22 so took them back to Walmart in Manchester tn.37355 they told me I could get refund or exchange them so choice to exchange them I go back where their location in store to find out 4 more boxes had expired so I told Walmart associates they took them off shelve as I was about to exit the store there are individual.2 packs for sale and there was 2 whole boxes of them out of date...I love twinkies but I'm upset about all this !

12/27/22 I brought a box of classic glazed donettes they were not as they where’s to soft they were hard I was very disappointed as I try to eat them store sales them to me individual for box also check the date so they were not expired they won’t give me no refund due to not receiving a receipt when they ask did I need one I said no because I was not returning anything so I’m stuck to file a complaint about this disappointing moment today.

I purchased several Hostess items today December 26,2022 at the Walmart in my neighborhood. Lebanon Pike and Andrew Jackson Blvd.

I opened the box of Twinkies and found the first one with green mold. Upon further examination I found the expiration date to be October 17, 2022.

SKU [protected] 9.

Number on front near expiration date is

J [protected] 215 18:16 L21

I bought a box of Iced Vanilla Hostess Zingers from Walmart, Dickerson Road, Nashville, TN around the first part of December. That are very hard/dry. Even in the past when I had out of date Zingers they were not hard/dried out like these are. The packaging seemed to be fine and the cake looked okay. Below is the information from the box.

Best by Jan 03 2023, J1020 [protected]

Thanks,

Debora Jackson

Hostess Donettes don’t taste as good as they used to, but I have a worse problem. Some new ingredient in the recipe makes me physically ill. Both the chocolate and the white powder Donettes upset my stomach and give me painful stomach aches. At first I did not attribute this suffering to the product, but with repeat incidents, I have isolated that the cause is the Donettes. I won’t be buying them anymore but thought I should warn others in case they wonder why they feel sick after eating this product.

It's not enough that food prices have increased 25-50% or more the last 2 years then we get greedy companies and manufacturers not only raising their prices yet also reducing the size/qty of their products. I might understand one OR the other but consumers are getting gouged from all sides.

I do not buy sweets or pastries very often yet after seeing where this product has gone to where it is today to about 2/3 the size they used to be,

I will not purchase anymore from Hostess and I will recommend the same to friends and family. It's a shame how companies take advantage of a fake, blown out of proportion situation as well as the consumers that prop them up in the name of "capitalism". Sadly this is just one example of hundreds of others.

We purchased a box of Hostess Zingers from the Walmart store in Lebanon Tennessee on Cumberland Street this past Saturday. Wedtern we got home...like I always do...I start to tear open the boxes for easier access while Im making lunches in the morning. I picked up the box to open it and thought to myself man this feels really light so when I opened it there were only six zingers in there. There were no holes in the box or nothing. I will include pictures. Please feel free to contact me at [protected]@gmail.com. Thank you

Good evening, while looking for but not finding any raspberry zingers, I purchased a box of iced vanilla zingers instead. Upon opening the box to eat one, I noticed it was very dense and had not creme filling as indicated on the box. Thinking it was a fluke, as I have always loved zingers, I tried another and found it was also quite dense and lacking in creme filling as well. I tried 2 more, but both were the same as the first 2 cakes I tried. I fear they will all be the also and am very disappointed in the box I choose. I worry that they may have been from a bad batch and you may want to recall them, as they are not up to the great standards of the hostess family. The numbers on the side of my box are as follows; J [protected]:32.

Thank you for your time,

Toni Myers

I bought a bag of glazed mini donuts on my way home from Dash Thru carryout in Portsmouth, Ohio. I usually purchase them DAILY from another carryout that's close to my home. I got home later then I usually do which is why I wasn't able to get them from my usual store. And because my wife and I literally eat them every when we get home from work, I had to go to another store to get them. I'm disgusted. I've never had a complaint or a single bad thought about any Hostess product for as long as I've been eating them. But this is much different. The donut I jus took a bite from almost ruined the product for me entirely. The only thing saving me from this, is the fact that I buy them so often from my regular store that they are always fresh and on point with my chocolate milk to say the least. The ones I purchased tonight are horrific. They taste permeated with chemicals and cleaning supplies. Which makes me wonder how long they have been on the shelf at the location mentioned above. And of course I didn't think to look at the best buy date until after I ruined my whole appetite and night with the first bite. The date is 09/20... This is Dec 2022. I'm absolutely appalled. I hope this is resolved and taken seriously. I'm also taking the bag back to the store on my way to work in the morning.

I bought a box of hostess dingdongs 10 individually wrapped and only received 8 in the box. I purchased it from azteca supermarket in Detroit mi . The address is 2411 central Avenue Detroit mi 48209. I bought this 12/15/22. I know mistakes happen but would like to be compensated

I bought a variety pack at sam's and the ding dongs have a very strong, bad chemical smell and taste. As soon as I put that in my mouth the smell hurt my nose. I bit into it and vomitted. Please look in to this issue. The bar code on the box is [protected].

I recently bought a 10 count box of ding dongs and I, my wife and son tasted and we agree each tasted overly Minty. They are near inedible with this unwanted addition. The batch number is J [protected](also in the picture below). The transaction date was 12-12-22 at a local Walmart and I do still have the receipt. If you require any other information please do not hesitate to ask as the store would not accept them to return since the box had been opened.

These snowballs are normally really soft and good these were very stale tasting and disappointing. I bought at a local Walmart in Houghton lake Michigan says best by January 15 of 2023 they were not good. The package says j11012100305 only had them for about 4 days before I tried them not sure if packaging was damaged before purchasing very disappointing I love these.

Your ding dong bouncers would have been great, except 2 out of 5 packs only had 2 bouncers instead of 3 and a third pack had an open end, so they were VERY dried out and inedible. I bought 2 boxes at Thanksgiving for the grandkids to enjoy. Thank you. I have always bought Hostess products, and was very disappointed when this happened, let alone that my grandkids didn't get their promised treats. I hope that you can fix the problem and restore my faith in your company. If this happened to me, I am sure it has happened to others also.

Purchased at WalMart in Ravenna, Ohio end of Nov 2022. Unfortunately do not have lot number because we threw away the box. Several of them tasted fine. However most of them taste extremely disgusting, like soap or chemicals! The taste and smell is so bad i almost vomited and could not get the taste out of my mouth. They taste and smell rancid. I would say atleast half the box.

The product tastes like chemicals, had my wife taste them, she spit it out. Disgusting taste and smell. Hope I do not get sick. Why is my complaint too short to publish, what more do you need, I have eaten ding dongs for 40 years, they taste like chemicals and the chocolate doesn't even cover the ding dong.

Purchased [protected] at Kroger, holt Michigan.

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I bought zingers at the store got home and my grand daughter opened them took one and started eating so I reached in got one for my other grand daughter and noticed they were moldy. The sale by date said December 6th ,2022. It was days before the sale by date. My grand daughter was feeling ill and I feel you should supply better products. Bought at Tom's pride Starbuck mn December 2 .

The Best By date is good (Dec 7, 2022), but it tasted moldy and the inside texture looked as though it was.

The packaging was glued crooked on one side.

It was purchased from our local Dollar General when the grocery store was out of stock(about 3 weeks ago). I took a bite several days later. The next day I broke one open to see if the one the previous day was just a fluke, but this one was the same. Printing on that wrapper was J [protected] 271X 03:28 1