[Idearat]

Brenda is from the south and down here they are known as Big Wheels.

Well, 25 years ago maybe. So unless they were stale or had been frozen all that time. ( my favorite way to eat Ding Dongs ) then they weren't Big Wheels either.

The show did some product placement and tie-ins with Reeses and Kit-Kat, so I wouldn't be surprised if they made a deal for the snack cakes as well. I'd be impressed if they were clever enough to not say the name so that anyone seeing them would assume they were the local brand.

Me, I'm sticking with the west coast name, without which this t-shirt I have wouldn't be nearly as funny:

 

[tiams]

I haven't seen them in years and years around here. So it always seemed weird to me that Brenda would have them. Do they still make them on the west coast? I thought Big Wheels, Ho-Hos, Wonder Bread and Twinkies were now extinct since Hostess died.

 

[wedgecon]

You can still get them, but I have not seen foil wrapped one's in years.

 

[Sadara]

I loved the purse full of ring dings.
They wrapped up Gabriel's departure very well. I hope They soften up Captain Rader's character a bit. Mary Mcdonnel is a terrific actress, but her character just makes my skin crawl.

She makes my skin crawl too. I like how the dynamics are changing though. We'll see how that goes moving forward. They do need to smooth out Raydor's extremely rough edges, she's a pill, a huge bitter pill!

 

[Gary McCoy]

Giving her a male teenaged foster kid was the first step in softening the character, I think. Now she has to save somebody's behind from political police department BS, in the way that Brenda Leigh used to fail to do until Rader helped her.

 

[Sadara]

Giving her a male teenaged foster kid was the first step in softening the character, I think. Now she has to save somebody's behind from political police department BS, in the way that Brenda Leigh used to fail to do until Rader helped her.

I think Rusty will be teaching the much older Raydor some big life lessons. At least I hope he does!

 

[Blurayfan]

I haven't seen them in years and years around here. So it always seemed weird to me that Brenda would have them. Do they still make them on the west coast? I thought Big Wheels, Ho-Hos, Wonder Bread and Twinkies were now extinct since Hostess died.

Hostess isn't dead my Jewel has Twinkies, Zingers, CupCakes, and Ho-Ho's in stock.

They also have a website Hostess Cakes

 

[tiams]

Hostess isn't dead my Jewel has Twinkies, Zingers, CupCakes, and Ho-Ho's in stock.

They also have a website Hostess Cakes

Hostess has filed for bankruptcy, so you better buy up those Twinkies. And don't worry, they won't go bad.

 

[Idearat]

You can still get them, but I have not seen foil wrapped one's in years.

It's been a couple months since I got some, but they were foil wrapped. If you get the 2-pack from next to the store checkout they don't have foil (they're not individually wrapped) but the the larger box does still have them in foil as they should be. I've never seen them wrapped in anything else.

Ho-Hos are different. They used to be in foil but went to mylar at some point a few years ago. They used to be a so-so substitute for a Ding Dongs with the foil, but I drew the line with the mylar.

 

[MNoelH]

It's been a couple months since I got some, but they were foil wrapped. If you get the 2-pack from next to the store checkout they don't have foil (they're not individually wrapped) but the the larger box does still have them in foil as they should be. I've never seen them wrapped in anything else.

Ho-Hos are different. They used to be in foil but went to mylar at some point a few years ago. They used to be a so-so substitute for a Ding Dongs with the foil, but I drew the line with the mylar.

Interesting. It's been a while (at least a year) since I bought any Ding Dongs. I bought the box (maybe two dozen in total) and they were each wrapped individually in a shiny white sealed bag. Sealed kind of like a potato chip bag.

You can kind of see the wrapper behind the ding dong in this image:

 

[MNoelH]

I didn't care for them as much as I did in my youth. They may still be in the cabinet somewhere. I might take a pic to show you how they come packaged here.

 

[Idearat]

Interesting. It's been a while (at least a year) since I bought any Ding Dongs. I bought the box (maybe two dozen in total) and they were each wrapped individually in a shiny white sealed bag. Sealed kind of like a potato chip bag.

You can kind of see the wrapper behind the ding dong in this image:

Hmm.. Maybe your box was of individual ones made for resale, like you might find at Smart & Final or Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hostess-Ding-Dongs-box-24ct/dp/B0027AOIOU

The last time I had some was April and they were still foil wrapped. There do seem to be people who are unable to find them ( or they just keep buying the wrong boxes ) http://darwinsfinest.blogspot.com/2008/09/give-me-foil-wrapped-ding-dongs-or-give.html

I'll be bummed if they stop with the foil. As long as the Girl Scouts don't stop putting the Thin Mints in the convenient tubes I'll still be Ok.

 

[Boston Fan]

I am not much into the spoiler police thing, but I was surprised to find so many references to stuff that happens in the pilot of Major Crimes (which I have not had a chance to watch yet) in a thread about the series finale of The Closer.

Any chance that chatter could be taken to its own thread, or at least spoiler tagged here?

 

[DeDondeEs]

I thought that the closer ended well. And I liked it how they transitioned to the new lead actress with a new show instead of keeping the same name of the show. I wish more shows would do stuff like this.

 

[MNoelH]

Hmm.. Maybe your box was of individual ones made for resale, like you might find at Smart & Final or Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hostess-Ding-Dongs-box-24ct/dp/B0027AOIOU

The last time I had some was April and they were still foil wrapped. There do seem to be people who are unable to find them ( or they just keep buying the wrong boxes ) http://darwinsfinest.blogspot.com/2008/09/give-me-foil-wrapped-ding-dongs-or-give.html

I'll be bummed if they stop with the foil. As long as the Girl Scouts don't stop putting the Thin Mints in the convenient tubes I'll still be Ok.

Nope. It's not a resale box. It's a normal box with individually wrapped Ding Dongs. The individual wrappers are plain white with no writing on them. The Ding Dongs don't taste as good and I don't know why... maybe it's the extra air they're packed in. It seems that they blow some air in before sealing so if it melts, it can't really stick to the wrapper (if that makes any sense).

 

[Idearat]

Nope. It's not a resale box. It's a normal box with individually wrapped Ding Dongs. The individual wrappers are plain white with no writing on them. The Ding Dongs don't taste as good and I don't know why... maybe it's the extra air they're packed in. It seems that they blow some air in before sealing so if it melts, it can't really stick to the wrapper (if that makes any sense).

I was starting to worry that they canceled The Closer since Brenda's goodie drawer wouldn't look right with a bunch of amorphous white blobs instead of silver bundles of goodness.

Went to the store today, and at least here in northern CA they are still packed in foil. I now have 11 in the freezer just in case.

 

[Mikeyis4dcats]

we have Ho-Hos in Kansas. Always been in white wrappers.

 

[Idearat]

we have Ho-Hos in Kansas. Always been in white wrappers.

Ho Hos here used to be in foil like Ding Dongs, but went to mylar a long time ago. They might be in white now, I haven't had them in decades.

 

[GoHalos]

The wiki page on Ding Dongs talk about the Ring Ding / Ding Dong conflict and why they were called Big Wheels on the east coast.

I've always lived on the west coast, and have always known them as Ding Dongs. I haven't had one in years, but they were always foil wrapped. Although, the way that they say, "The cake was originally wrapped in a square of thick aluminium foil", sounds like they might not be any more?

 

[Idearat]

The wiki page on Ding Dongs talk about the Ring Ding / Ding Dong conflict and why they were called Big Wheels on the east coast.

I've always lived on the west coast, and have always known them as Ding Dongs. I haven't had one in years, but they were always foil wrapped. Although, the way that they say, "The cake was originally wrapped in a square of thick aluminium foil", sounds like they might not be any more?

I don't know if it's regional or dependent on which particular bakery makes them, but the ones I bought on Friday came in foil like I've always seen them. The comment on Wikipedia about "used to be wrapped in foil" must have been written by someone who can only get them in the plastic pouches now.