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I was profoundly unnerved by those Hostess Chocodiles ads when I was little. Possibly because one of the school bullies went around singing the jingle all the time.
Childhood is strange.
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quote:Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad: Ring Dings, of course, look just like Ding Dongs. At one time, Hostess could not sell Ding Dongs by that name in states where Drake's Ring Dings were sold. They were variously called Big Wheels and King Dons. Eventually, they came to be called Ding Dongs everywhere.
King Dongs is so less euphemistic than Ding Dongs.
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That is my point. Although I think the reason for renaming Ding Dongs in those states with Drake Ring Dings was more about copyright/trademark/tradename
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There wasn't anything in the part of Rocky's post that you quoted that suggested it was anything other than tradename issues, so I wasn't sure where you were going with that.
I'm surprised the Big Wheel people didn't go after them, though.
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Besides the name shared with a plastic tricycle, the Big Wheel cake also had a mascot, Chief Big Wheel, who was just a bit (read painfully) culturally insensitive.
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quote:Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: I don't recall Hostess Chocodiles.
A Twinkie with crappy fake chocolate coating. They didn't last that long.
quote:Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad: Besides the name shared with a plastic tricycle, the Big Wheel cake also had a mascot, Chief Big Wheel, who was just a bit (read painfully) culturally insensitive.
No shortage of those, but I remember the particular ads you're talking about.
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Zingers also had commercials where Snoopy was the Zinger Zapper. Dolly Madison also sold chocolate pies with Frieda (she of the naturally curly hair) depicted on the label.
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Frieda, of course, is not to be confused with the little red-haired girl that Charlie Brown fancies.
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