Hostess Ding Dong Ice Cream Sandwiches(?)

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Remember the movie Gigli? That train wreck of a movie starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez with a whopping 6% Rotten Tomatoes rating? Yeah, you remember it. In my university's freshman writing class, each person chose a 'cultural text' and spent the semester analyzing their cultural text. Inexplicably, one of my very good friends chose Gigli as his cultural text. Why? I don't know, maybe for the sake of irony, maybe it was pure masochism. Whatever the reasons, we watched that stupid, awful, terrible movie at least 7 times that semester. It was so bad every time, but it was also SO FUN.



Hostess Ding Dong ice cream sandwiches may just be the frozen dessert equivalent of the best good-bad movie. They're objectively terrible, but I also want to eat them all.  Officially these are vanilla frozen dairy dessert sandwiches with chocolatey coating. Frozen dairy dessert, not ice cream and chocolatey coating, not chocolate coating.


These were awful. The ice cream/frozen dairy dessert was tasteless, no point to even describe it any further. The chocolate cake was extremely dry and crumbly, and the chocolatey coating was basically Hershey's syrup in the form of a hardened shell. Somehow it was incredibly brittle but still managed to melt all over my hands.

And yet, and yet ... I wouldn't have it any other way. I mean, it totally captured the essence of a Ding Dong; kind of crumbly, not very good, and somehow incredibly addicting.

I'm giving these 🍦.5/4 cones, but also 4/4 cones, ya know?

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