Grocery Store Tidbit Probably Only Interesting To Me

[LuFins Dad]

Twinkies are cheaper than Little Debbie…

When I was a kid, a major socioeconomic determining factor was whether your parents bought a box of Twinkie's for snack cakes (Roughly $4 for a box of 16 individually wrapped cakes) or Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls ($1 for a box of 8 double packed, total of 16 cakes).

Now they are both extremely expensive, but the Twinkie is cheaper…

[jodi]

I loved peeling the chocolate like substance off those cake rolls.

[Jolly]

Little Debbie at my house. The only time we got Twinkies or Ding-Dongs was if Mom had been by the day-old bread store.

[jon-nyc]

My mother wouldn’t buy them. Not sure if that was about health or $. Probably the latter.

[Mik]

Mine either. But Janet will buy LDs from time to time. I won’t touch them.

But I did just have a couple Pecan Sandies wit Cranberries. Yum.

[Copper]

We used to get Drake’s Cakes, they might have been regional.

https://www.drakescake.com/

[Axtremus]

Ate, and more or less liked, those Little Debbie chocolate cakes in my late teens.
But haven’t have one for a long time and haven’t think of it until reading this thread. :man-shrugging:

[George K]

Never had one, and I'm too old to start experimenting.

ETA: Why are they called "Swiss?"

[89th]

@Copper said in Grocery Store Tidbit Probably Only Interesting To Me:

We used to get Drake’s Cakes, they might have been regional.

https://www.drakescake.com/

Drake's coffee cakes are terrific. Somewhat regional...