What's the difference between a Ding Dong and a Ring Ding?

[boston bean]

I have no idea, except that I learned Drakes produces Ring Dings and Hostess produces Ding Dongs.

[Ptah]

1. One RingyDingy

[seabeyond]

2. snort.... nt

[boston bean]

6. I love Lily Tomlin

Check this out... early Lily

[liberal N proud]

3. You can still get the Ring Ding?

Not familiar with the Drake brand so I assume they are a regional bakery.

[boston bean]

4. I am pretty sure I can still get ring dings. But

maybe I've just been buying ding dongs and not noticing it.

I'm going to check the supermarket and see if I can find the drakes ring dings.

[FSogol]

5. What about Little Debbie "Swiss Cake Rolls" vs Hostess "Ho Hos"?

[boston bean]

7. Who came first? Hostess or Little Debbie?

[FSogol]

9. Hostess 1930, Little Debbie 1934

No idea on when the individual products were created.

[Chan790]

8. That's an easy difference.

HoHos are rolled counter-clockwise.
Swiss Rolls are rolled clockwise.

[FSogol]

10. I'm on the east of the Continental Divide.

[Ikonoklast]

21. What does sexual orientation have to do with snack cakes?

[FSogol]

25. LOL.

!

[boston bean]

11. I think you have solved it!

or was it just the way the pictures were taken? hmmmmm...

Good on you though, it definitely could be the main difference!

[boston bean]

12. Now that you said this, I think I also know the difference between a ring ding and ding dong.

Ring dings were filled from the bottom, and Ding Dongs were filled from the side.

Or maybe vice versa.....

[OriginalGeek]

13. In some places they were King Dons

Drakes was a separate company from Hostess but for a while Hostess owned Drakes. When Drakes split off, Hostess was required to call their Ding Dongs King Dons in areas where both Ring Dings and Ding Dongs were available.

Currently I think King Dons are only called that in Canada.

[ArnoldLayne]

22. In West Virginia and Eastern Ohio they are still called King Dons.

[OriginalGeek]

24. Oh! Those poor Ding Dongless people!

We had them here for a bout 2 years but that was 15 or 20 years ago maybe...Nobody believes me but I swear they tasted worse than the real thing....and then I bought a box of Ding Dongs a couple months ago just becasue I hadn;t had them in years and damn things were in plastic wraps instead of tin foil! Ruined it.

[rug]

14. The icing.

[bluedave]

15. A ding dong

is a traditional conservative,a ring ding is a tea party member

[njlibguy_19656mm]

18. LOL

probably the best answer

[HopeHoops]

16. One appeared in porn movies. The other is a door bell.

[pintobean]

17. Ding Dongs cause ring dings

on ones thighs.

[Major Nikon]

19. Ding Dong

[Baitball Blogger]

20. Hostess going out of business is like celebrating the end to unhealthy eating.

[Orrex]

23. This thread is far less dirty than I hoped

I mean e pected.