So, Hostess. A little over a year ago they went bankrupt, then they were bought over, then Twinkies and other like products returned to the shelves. I like Twinkies. I like pies. I like Chocodiles, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, Sno Balls, Zingers, Donuts, Donettes, etc. Some of those I don't think they've brought back yet but I digress. A couple weeks ago at Albertsons I reached for one of the Hostess pies when I noticed something really frickin' creepy: all of the packages had little pinholes pricked all around them like a kid with zits all over his face. Every. Single. One. I took one of the packages to customer service with the theory that someone had deliberately poked holes the pie packages with a needle or something. They were then promptly removed from the shelves.
Fast forward to today. I again reach for one of the pies only to find that the packages are littered with pinholes. Every. Single. One. And the holes are all in the same spots, so this wasn't deliberate. No, this is on Hostess. So I purchased one to take home, take pictures of, and write directly to Hostess. Here, my friends, is the specimen:
The specimen
Look closely
If this pie were a camera it would be a pinhole
Seriously, what the hell is this? I counted TWENTY of these tiny little holes around the package. Now, unless some butthole is coming into Albertsons and meticulously poking the same pattern of holes in every single Hostess fruit pie, then clearly something is going wrong during the manufacturing process.
I'll update you on my correspondence.