Hostess Ding Dongs

A Ding Dong is chocolate cake that is sold by Hostess Brands. It is round with a flat top and bottom, about three inches in diameter and a little more than an inch high, similar in shape to a hockey puck. A white creamy filling is injected into the center, and a thin coating of "chocolate" glaze covers the entire cake. The cake was originally wrapped in a square of thick aluminium foil, enabling it to be carried in lunches without melting the chocolate glaze.

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History and naming [link]

The Ding Dong is similar to other cream-filled cakes, such as Arcade Vachon's Jos. Louis introduced before 1934 and still in production.[1] Hostess began marketing its Ding Dong in 1967. The name was given to coincide with a television ad campaign featuring a ringing bell.[2]

Ring Ding / Ding Dong conflict [link]

Drake's Ring Dings

The company marketed the snacks on the East Coast as Big Wheels, to avoid confusion with the Ring Ding, a similar (and pre-existing) treat by Drake's Cakes. The names were consolidated in 1987, when a short-lived merger of Drake's with Hostess' parent company (then Continental Baking Company) briefly resolved the Ring Ding/Ding Dong conflict. When the merged company broke up, however, Hostess was forced to cease, once again, using the Ding Dongs name in areas where Ring Dings were available. The compromise sound-alike name King Dons lasted until Interstate Bakeries Corporation, which had recently merged with Hostess' parent company, bought Drake's in 1998. The Hostess product is now sold under the name Ding Dongs throughout the United States. However, the snack is still sold as the King Don in Canada.

Cartoon characters [link]

Hostess created the King Ding Dong cartoon character to advertise the Ding Dong: an anthropomorphized Ding Dong sporting a crown and sceptre. He was similar to other Hostess characters Twinkie the Kid and Fruit Pie the Magician. Where King Dons were marketed, the character, like the product, was known as King Don. In areas that used the Big Wheel name, the character was an Indian chief named "Chief Big Wheel."

See also [link]

  • Choco Pie, a popular Japanese cake of the same kind. It comprises of lightly liqueur scented sponge cakes with vanilla cream filling, topped with a chocolate coating.
  • Hostess (brand)
  • Twinkie

References [link]

  1. ^ Vachon company products page
  2. ^ Ding Dong page at the Hostess official site

External links [link]

Official website


https://wn.com/Ding_Dong

Ding Dong (disambiguation)

Ding Dong is a chocolate snack cake marketed under the Hostess brand name.

Ding Dong may also refer to:

  • Doorbell or the sound made by a doorbell
  • Television

  • Ding Dong School, an American children's television show
  • Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong, UK game show presented by Alan Carr and the voice of Leslie Phillips
  • Leslie Phillips (born 1924), one of whose catchphrases is "I say, ding dong"
  • Geography

  • Ding Dong, Texas, a town in Bell County in the United States
  • Ding Dong mines in Cornwall
  • Music

  • The Ding Dongs, the group name under which "Early in the Morning" was originally released
  • Albums

  • Ding Dong, a 1976 jazz album by Vic Dickenson
  • Ding Dong, a 2000 album by Lester Young
  • Ding Dong!, a 2013 album by Krista Siegfrids
  • Songs

  • "Ding Dong" (Dana International song), 2011
  • "Ding Dong, Ding Dong", a 1974 song by George Harrison
  • "Ding Dong Merrily on High", a 1924 Christmas carol
  • "Ding Dong Song", a 2004 song by Swedish singer Günther
  • "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead", a 1939 song from the film The Wizard of Oz
  • Ding Dong (Dana International song)

    "Ding Dong" is a pop song written and performed by Israeli singer Dana International. It won the Israeli Kdam Eurovision (Israeli National selection) on March 8, 2011, represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany. It will be released as a music single for the singer a few days after the national final performance.

    This was Dana International's second performance in the Kdam Eurovision, after her failed attempt in 1995. It was also her second time in the Eurovision Song Contest as a singer, after winning in 1998 with the song "Diva", and her second time as a song writer and composer, after the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest entry sung by Boaz Mauda, "Ke'ilu Kan" ("The Fire in Your Eyes").

    The song failed to go through to the final.

    References

    Dong

    Dong or DONG may refer to:

    Places

  • Dong Lake, or East Lake
  • Dong (administrative division) (동 or 洞), a neighborhood division in Korea
  • Dong, Arunachal Pradesh, the easternmost village in India
  • People

  • Dong people (侗族), a Kam–Sui people of southern China, and recognized ethnic minority group in China
  • Dǒng (surname), Chinese surname 董
  • Dōng (surname), Chinese surname 東
  • Dang (surname) or Dong, Chinese surname 黨, 滕
  • Queen Dong (1623–1681), princess consort of Koxinga and mother of Zheng Jing.
  • Empress Dong (Ran Min's wife), wife of Ran Min, emperor of Chinese state Ran Wei
  • Empress Dowager Dong (died 189), empress dowager during Han Dynasty
  • Donkey Kong, a character from Donkey Kong.
  • Other uses

  • Dong (film) (东), a documentary film by Jia Zhangke
  • Dong language
  • A slang term for the human penis
  • Vietnamese dong (₫), the currency unit of Vietnam
  • DONG Energy, a Danish energy company
    • Danish Cup or DONG Cup, a trophy sponsored by the oil company from 2000 to 2004
  • Danish Cup or DONG Cup, a trophy sponsored by the oil company from 2000 to 2004
  • Dong (administrative division)

    A dong or neighborhood is a submunicipal level administrative unit of a city and of those cities which are not divided into wards throughout Korea. The unit is often translated as neighborhood and has been used in both administrative divisions of North Korea and South Korea.

    In South Korea

    A dong is the smallest level of urban government to have its own office and staff in South Korea. In some cases, a single legal-status neighborhood is divided into several administrative neighborhoods. In such cases, each administrative dong has its own office and staff. Administrative dongs are usually distinguished from one another by number (as in the case of Myeongjang 1-dong and Myeongjang 2-dong).

    The primary division of a dong is the tong (통/), but divisions at this level and below are seldom used in daily life. Some populous dong are subdivided into ga (가/), which are not a separate level of government, but only exist for use in addresses. Many major thoroughfares in Seoul, Suwon, and other cities are also subdivided into ga.

    Dong (film)

    Dong (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: dōng; literally: "East") is a 2006 documentary film by Chinese director, Jia Zhangke. It is the companion piece to Jia's Still Life, which was released concurrently although Dong was reputedly conceived of first. The film, which runs a relatively short 66 minutes, follows the artist and actor Liu Xiaodong as he invites Jia to film him while he paints a group of laborers near the Three Gorges Dam (also the subject of Still Life) and later a group of women in Bangkok. The film was produced and distributed by Jia's own production company, Xstream Pictures, based out of Hong Kong and Beijing.

    Dong was screened at the 2006 Venice International Film Festival as part of its "Horizons" Program, and as part of the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival's "Real-to-Reel" Program.

    Dong was filmed in HD digital video.

    Relationship with Still Life

    Filmed at the same time as Jia's fiction film, Still Life, Dong also shares the same setting (the Three Gorges area of central China) and in certain instances, the same shots. Han Sanming, one of the leads in Still Life, also appears (in character) within Dong as do other characters from that film.

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Ka Ding Dong

    by: The Diamonds

    Ka-Ding-Dong
    The Diamonds
    Written by Ronnie Jordan and J. McDermott
    -Peaked at # 35 in 1956
    -Competing versions charted by The G-Clefs (#24) and The Hilltoppers (# 38)
    TRANSCRIBER"S NOTE: represents number of drumstick strikes on a metal
    triangle
    Oh, well I met a little girl about a week ago
    And I felt that I oughta let her know
    Since then my heart has broke the string
    It goes ding-dong, ding-dong, da-ding-dong, ding-dong-ding
    My heart goes ding-dong-ding when I'm near you
    It goes ding-dong-ding 'cause I want you
    It goes ding-dong-ding 'cause I need you
    It goes ding-dong ding-dong
    Well, you know I love you, love you. little girl
    And if you'll only kiss me it will give me the world
    All around my heart where the feeling is
    Because ding-dong, ding-dong, da-ding-dong, ding-dong-ding
    My heart goes ding-dong-ding 'cause I want you
    It goes ding-dong-ding 'cause I need you
    It goes ding-dong-ding 'cause I want you
    It goes ding-dong ding-dong
    {instrumental break}
    Now, don't be afraid of me, little girl
    'cause I love you more than the whole wide world
    You know I wouldn't harm a pretty, beautiful thing
    Because-a-ding-dong, ding-dong, da-ding-dong, ding-dong-ding
    My heart goes ding-dong-ding when I'm near you
    It goes ding-dong-ding 'cause I want you
    It goes ding-dong-ding 'cause I need you
    It goes ding-dong (SPOKEN: "Try it again") ding-dong
    (SPOKEN: "one more time")ding-dong, ding-dong, da-ding-dong, ding-dong-ding
    (SPOKEN: Hey!)




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