day 06 → whatever tickles your fancy

[fightingthecage]

Obviously, I am doing this meme at my own pace. But I have an emergency and I need help. So! What tickles my fancy today is...HOSTESS CAKES!

See, when I was in L.A, I practically lived off these things. Raspberry Hostess cakes, to be exact. And my problem is that I can't seem to find any proof that they exist, or ever existed. AND I NEED SOME.

My mother is in New York at the moment and I want her to bring me some back but I don't know if they're sold on the East coast. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? They were about...six/eight inches long probably. Sponge cake with little globs of raspberry jam (or raspberry flavoured goop, anyway) dotted throughout and nice crunchy little cubes of sugar on top. They were available in every 7/11 I stopped at in California, gas stations, pharmacy's, wherever. £0.99, so very cheap and cheerful and probably filled with more preservatives and E numbers than you could fit on the ingredients tab. And now I can't seem to hear any talk of them, even among Hostess's discontinued lines.

Please, someone, tell me I didn't imagine them. I used to have them every day! It's driving me mental.

Comments

[wakeupnew]

Hostess cakes yes; raspberry ones, no, never heard of. Sorry!

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

*cries*

[moriendi.livejournal.com]

Did they look like this?

[moriendi.livejournal.com]

Or more like this?

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

*sad* Nope, not doughnuts either. Thanks for trying though.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

*starts in horror* Omg, pink! Uh no, that's not them. There was no creme filling in them - just plain sponge cake with the jam bits in and sugar on top.

[shadowofdoubt.livejournal.com]

I will try to go check a gas station this afternoon. XD And I am driving to L.A. again in two weeks, so I will keep an eye out. <3

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

You rock. :D I just want to know I didn't imagine them!

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Were they the lowfat raspberry Twinkies? I've had those, but no sugar crystals on top that I remember. They were angel food cake with raspberry jam inside.

There are also Raspberry Zingers, by Dolly Madison, but I don't think they're raspberry filled - I think the raspberry flavor is outside and the inside is cream.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

*googles them* Nope, not those either. And definitely not Zingers, they come up on every search I try to find them and...look really nasty. But then, I think Twinkies are pretty nasty too.