Phil, the Twinkie is a sponge cake/cream fill snack cake made by Dallas company Hostess. They has been THE snack my whole like....quesntisential grand ma's house snack...a Twinke and a Coke. Hostess filed bankrupsy this spring and the world hurt cause the Twinkie was gone...

The Ding Dong is a hockey puck shaped chocolate cake/chochlate covered/cream filled cake. They both were and ARE the snack cake of millions and millions and millions of people. I am 49 and I have loved em my whole life. My sack lunch to school as a boy, always had a Twinke or a Ding Dong