Pure bliss

An anonymous reader wanted to know what happened to Hostess' Choco-Bliss, another short-lived Hostess snack.

At first I thought I didn't remember these, but when I saw a photo, things started clicking. They were chocolate cake, with a kind of whipped chocolate filling and chocolate frosting. They kind of looked like Zingers.

Matt at X-E has more than just one photo, of course, he has a whole Choco-Bliss TV commercial, and man, is it '80s. It's so '80s it has padded shoulders and a Cosby sweater on.

But sadly, he also has bad news for Choco-Bliss fans.

Says Matt: "With the reactions seen here, it's incredible that Hostess' Choco-Bliss didn't last longer. Course, now that I've said it's gone, I'm sure someone who lives near an obscure Hostess bakery in Tahiti will e-mail in telling me how absolutely wrong I am. For what it's worth, I've done my research, and unless there's a couple of midwestern towns that have Choco-Bliss but no phones or Internet connections, these cakes are history. You can still mimic the feeling of eating a Choco-Bliss by lumping chocolate cake icing on top of chocolate cake covered in chocolate. Chips optional. "