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I like the first one's apparent bento-kinship.

Oh and I was a cherry person, though we tried every flavor.

I was fine with this entire thread and wasn't going to comment until I got to the last sentence. Are you kidding me? EVERYONE deserves to have their voices heard, even if they are the only ones agreeing. This IS America, right? Land of Free Speech and other civil liberties???

Actually, according to my family, I was a pretty picky (and severely underweight) child. I don't remember this but apparently my mom would do McDonald's runs for me. But I remember eating snake, shark's fin, squid, tons of seafood that most kids won't eat, vegetables - I loved vegetables - and all sorts of stuff growing up. I guess I grew out of the McDonald's thing pretty quickly or something. And now, I eat just about everything (there are things I don't like, but I will try nearly anything at least a few times to make sure I'm giving it a fair shake).
My nephew loves his veggies because his parents eat them and don't make a fuss about him eating them or not. Sometimes I think that's what it is - and I'm terrified for the day I have children because my boyfriend hates vegetables and I'm sure his attitude will spill over and the children will pick up on it, and then... sigh.

Hahahahahahahaha... Adam, I thought the same thing "It's like that KFC thing... what was the name?" Why would KFC take an idea like that and give it such a dumb name, I don't know. But yea, I know people who swear by the KFC bowls and while logically, I know I wind up doing something similar sometimes anyway (take a bite of corn, mashed, chicken...) - I could never bring myself to order it. It's like "HERE, IN YOUR FACE, this is your gluttony ALL IN ONE BOWL! EAT IT!" and I couldn't give in to the screaming. But the people I know who eat it, LOVE it. A LOT. Makes me think there might also be crack in them.

I think two things to note about HFCS are

1) if it is in your food, that food is probably heavily processed and bears little resemblance ingredient-wise to the substance it is meant to represent in your diet (a great example of this is sliced bread or hamburger and hot dog buns, many of which are often made with HFCS and a host of other things that are harder pronounce.)

2) it can be lurking in places where most non-foodie people don't think to look for it. I have a diabetic relative who basically avoids sugars and is trying to eat a lot of salads. Some salad dressings have HFCS as the second ingredient (and I found one in her pantry where it was the FIRST ingredient.)

I used to refer to the filling as
'Apple Vaseline'

I tried the Perfect Oatmeal and I give it a 3 out of 5 stars. The taste wasn't special. I have had better instant oatmeal from prepackaged at the local grocery store. However, it needs a different container since you can't use it to reheat. In cold weather one block and it will be cold. It was lukewarm by the time I had walked 2 blocks in 70 degree weather.

gross!

I thought they were gross as a kid, definitely wouldn't want one now. Doubt the square ones are better.Thanks for making me remember the taste and yucky feeling in my stomach from the oh, so sweet fruit like filling, yuck, yuck, yuck....

sorry, imitation fruit flavor has always made me nauseous, go ahead and enjoy them if you like. You can have mine!

They've got the "real" Hostess pies at my local Winco. I haven't tried them in quite a while. I think I used to get cherry or chocolate. I'd certainly prefer more filling to more crust, and I imagine the crust part is cheaper to make, so they put in less filling for the two mini-square pies!