Hostess Brands
reviews and complaints

I bought 3 bags on Hostess Donettes from West Bend, Wisconsin Walmart. All 3 bags had like small hard chunks of unmixed batter on 1 out of 2 donettes. Not sure if there was a bad batch? If that’s going to happen, I will stop buying your products. I also purchased a bag of the same donettes from the Menards in the same city with the same result…

I bought a box of Hostess vanilla iced Zingers & when I took a bite I was so dry & nasty even the cream filling was like a dry powder & crumbly. I grew up on Hostess fruit pies and Twinkies, & never had a complaint until now & I'm 53 yrs old. All I'm asking for is a coupon or two for reimbursement. All I have is the receipt, these were purchased on08/08/2022. Thank you

Myalee Rodriguez

PO Box 419

Douglas WY. 82633

Just bought a box of Ding Dongs and less than half actually had cream filling, the rest were just little cakes. So disappointing. Used to be one of my favorite treats growing up. This stupid thing keeps saying that my complaint is too short and probably won’t be resolved every time I post it so I’m just going to keep typing for a second. I don’t want anything. I will probably never buy ding dongs again. I guess I just want you to do better.

I brought a box of these cakes I opened one I purchased them August 22nd the inside of the white cream was mild dude my grandbaby loves these where you scan the box here is the number is [protected] I purchased them from Walmart in Riviera Beach Florida lake Park store on Congress 33404 my name is Dorothy Radford my address is 1555 Dr Martin Luther King Jr boulevard apartment m103

I purchased Hostess Frosted Donuts at Walmart in Jackson, OH, 30 minutes ago (8/1/22 at 12:15 PM). I was eating salt and vinegar potato chips with them so when I ate the first donut, I thought maybe it was the interaction of flavors. But the second one tasted the same. I asked a coworker to smell them and she said that it smelled like a "chemical." The taste is still lingering in my mouth 30 minutes later. My tongue is now tingling and slightly burning.

Best by date is Aug 14, 2022.

Incident happened in Pueblo Colorado m&m food store on 29th Street, I bought a bag of chocolate donuts for my children. As my son was eating his donut he said it was gross his dad walked over grabbed a donut out of the bag ate it and it was so disgusting he started spitting it out everywhere. So I walked over and asked what was wrong and he handed me a donut which smelled of chemicals so bad it was disgusting it smelled like propane or gas or some very harsh chemical . And the donuts that my son ate made him sick I had to contact his doctor and we had to flush out his system. I took the donuts back to the store made the owner aware immediately after the incident happened, I called the health department and hostess in hopes no one else bought donuts that smelled and tasted as bad as ours and gave them to their children. Or ate them themselves.

This is the second box we have purchased that the zingers wrappers are open and it appears there may be a machine malfunction. Some zingers were tried to be sealed in the ends, others have partial zingers, some are smooshed within the package, etc. They are inedible

We purchased them at Kroger in Burton MI in July 2022. The first box had several Zingers that wrappers were unsealed and/or smooshed. (Not all of them - it was not a shipping issue. )

I have attached pictures of second box - none were edible. I have not opened the third and last box we have purchased

Hello,

I wanted to let you know that I was at Walmart today and I bought a package of your hostess donuts the 10.75 ounces chocolate frosted mini donuts. I was totally intending to enjoy them with a cup of coffee. I opened up the package, took a donut popped up my mouth. It tasted like glue and plastic. It was horrible! I spit it out. I dug deeper to the bottom of the bag and tried another one. I took a little tiny bite the bite was OK. The following bite was terrible.

I just wanted to let you know about your product.

The SKU number on it is [protected].

My name is:

Denise Freeman

390 Big Cedar Lane

Coupeville, WA. 98239

I just wanted to let you know so you can check on some of your other bags maybe packaged around that time and date is (July 24, 2022) expiration date on the bag and then there’s a number underneath that that is J05202400014014…

Again for your customer sake I would definitely check your dates in those bags.

Thank you for your time in consideration .

Have a nice day,

Denise Freeman

Whidbey Island, Washington

One of the Twinkies from the box I bought tastes like freaking chemicals! My son first bit into it and nearly threw up, so I tried it to see if he was crazy, he was not, I almost puked. I am just concerned that maybe we consumed poison. One other twinkie was consumed before the poisonous one and tasted fine. Please advise if there has been a recall on these Twinkies. Can we eat the remainder of the Twinkies? I have saved the Twinkie if you want to send it to the lab to run a test on it.

Seriously there was a very foul smell and taste to the Twinkie

These mini muffins I bought were stale and dry. The box was unopened and pouches were unopened till I opened them. I can find no best if used by date on box. code on box [protected] 4. I bought these muffins at Dollar General address Dollar General, 801 e. 2nd st., DeWitt, Arkansas, 72042. I did not get a receipt But will demand one from now on.

I purchased a box of donnetts to go from Giant store #2317 in Maryland on 7/20/2022. It was suppose to contain 8 packs of 3 donuts each. When I opened the box it contained 2 packs of 3 donuts and 3 honey buns. There were 6 packs of donuts missing and should have not been any honey buns. This is the first time that this has happpened to me. Upon reading the box it says to submit any complaints here, so I am attempting to resolve it here. See pictures attached.

My wife purchased a box of HoHos from PriceChopper at 4820 N Oak, KC, Mo on Saturday the 16th of July. Opened them this morning and there were only 8 in a box marked 10.

Bought a 10 box of Hostess DingDongs on July 12, 2022, at Aldi's and there were only 9 in the box , the barcode on the box is [protected]

Very disturbing when you buy something for 10 people and then when you get ready to hand them out you don't have enough

The serial number is

J061924.000170 03:14

Very disappointed

Purchased on 07/10/22 at walmart in chehalis Washington. Looks like someone or something took bites out of 2 of my brand new package of donuts.

I have included a picture of the package in my original complaint. And if that's not good enough...there are other companies out there that make snack foods just as good. It wont take much to avoid hostess anything!

Bought a box of raspberry zingers today from Kroger and half of the zingers are already open. They weren't sealed properly. Yeah so 5 out of a box of ten are already open.

So yesterday July7th 2022

I went to my local grocery store looking for something (wasn't really sure what).

I found Double Chocolate Flavored donettes.

I was like yes that will do my craving just fine.

I get home literally a few minutes later.

I open them and they were a big mess.

All stuck together.

I realize it could be a packing issue.

This is an FYI

The last box of cakes we got we were unable to eat. The whole bow was bad, the chocolate cake was so tough and spongy, it was difficult to bite and chew, and there was hardly ANY cream at all or it had been soaked up by the cake. We ended up throwing away the whole box. I added a picture of the info on the box but I’m not sure you can read it.

I eat these often for a quick breakfast or a snack and normally love them but this bag I purchased from my local Walmart store in Cynthiana KY was awful. They were dry, waxy, and had a bad taste. They are also smaller and thinner. If this is a permanent change with all of these little donuts I will switch brands. Although the exp. date say August 8, 2022, they were extremely dry inside and the texture felt a little like styrofoam. The chocolate felt waxy and left a film on my lips and inside my mouth. They tasted old and just horrible. Normally, one little donut is about 3 bites for me. I could have eaten these whole in one bite. I'm very disappointed. I have gastroparesis and these were one of the few solid foods I could eat during a flare. Now that's one less option for me to choose. I really hope this bag was just from a bad batch and not a new recipe. If they continue to be dry and nasty, I'm sure fewer people will be buying the product. I know this is one customer you're about to lose if the product continues to taste and appear like the ones in this package.

On June 11, 2022, I purchased two Hostess Snoballs. Eight the first half with no incident. While eating the second half, I put down on some thing extremely hard and sharp. I immediately spit it out to find a square, jagged, sharp black object. I notified hostess immediately even though it was a Sunday night and did not hear back from them right away which I found surprising. After getting an emergency evaluation, I suffered two broken molars, with one of the molars being extremely damaged and a damaged root into the nerve. The pain is undescribable. I was told by hostess to get estimates and they will take care of the emergency situation right away… This did not happen. My treatment requires oral surgery times two including full sedation, and seven trips to the dentist for crown work and other procedures to make it possible to keep both teeth. Over the weekend, I began to develop an abscess which appears to be spreading to my jaw and to my neck. The insurance adjuster for a Hostess has proven to be not only extremely unprofessional but unaware of how close Hostess Brands is getting to a lawyer stepping in and filing a major lawsuit. Since my injury, I have found 17 victims who have discovered foreign materials being found in cupcakes, donuts, zingers, Twinkies… Etc. in the last 6 months. There is a definite pattern of negligence which is widespread within this company… A class action “may be” forming… Hostess, you might want to get a new insurance company because this one has failed you.

It’s June 23rd and I just opened the box of strawberry cheesecakes hostess and 2 of the plastic packagings on 2 separate cakes look like the ends were burnt shut. But the plastic is open and deformed. The plastic is actually in the cake. Looks like it was sealed wrong. I got it at the Dollar General in Spring Grove PA. Just yesterday June 22nd. Expiration date on the box is July 10th 2022. Just wanted to let you know this just incase someone wouldn’t of seen and ate some plastic. Probably wouldn’t go to well with the strawberry!