I used to love the Hostess apple ones, when I was a kid. I have not had one in years. I wonder if the shape has more to do with serving size and making it easier to determine that. Maybe 1 pie was two servings. I don't know...just thinking aloud.
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I make mine following the recipe on the back of the cornmeal box. I have honestly never added anything to it. After reading these suggestions I may have to.
I like cornbread with spaghetti casserole, among other things.
@BergenCountyWarren: Table Talk still exists. I see them at my local Market Basket all the time. In all their mini pie tin glory. The last ones I purchased were stale though. :(
My dad called them "chemical pies". Take a look at the ingredient list... :(
@delilah I was scrolling to the bottom to say just that! I stay Uptown, and my boyfriend has a serious thing for the Hubig's chocolate. They're okay occasionally, but they generally make me cringe. I love the fruit ones though, especially apple and lemon. Silly Hostess, pies are from Hubig's!
That cutaway photo is horrifying. The "pie" is all pastry and hardly any filling. I can't even comment on the "two-pie" travesty.
The Hostess pies of old weren't made of flaky pastry, it was a hard shell with glaze. And the filling was generous and very good - chocolate and blackberry were my favorites. I seem to remember a pineapple pie too. As many of these things I ate as a child, it's a wonder I remained skinny as a twig.
Looks like Hostess and Drake's have merged. Drake's had been owned by Borden's for many years but that's the world of corporate mergers. Worse than the players being traded in MLB!
The Hostess product I really miss is Hostess O's donuts. Unlike regular jelly donuts, Hostess O's were shaped like regular donuts, and the jelly went all the way around, inside the ring. And they had a very nice raspberry jelly, too. I haven't seen them since I left California in 1992. Are they still around anywhere?
The best individual fruit pies were made by Table Talk in Massachusetts but they went out of business in the 1980s. They were round and in little pie tins and were like regular pies, only individually sized.
Dear Serious Eats,
I have always been a Drake's Devil Dog Devotee. The chocolate part is good and so is the marshmallow. Uhm, uhm, uhm. I don't like Hostess fruit pies and I don't care for their cupcakes, either. So there!
I ate a ton of Hostess Pie's as a teenager. I loved them. My son still hasn't eaten one. He tasted his first Twinkie and first Devil Dog a few months back. He liked them but didn't ask me to buy them again.
Nothing wrong with it, once in awhile. Everything in moderation.
I've eaten 65 things on that Omnivore's list. The only thing I won't eat are insects and head cheese. Give me that eel baby!
you haven't lived till you've had the cherry. My hubby is a big fan of the apple pie, but the cherry really are the way to go!
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