JB's Warehouse & Curio Emporium

Before setting off on my recent roadtrip, I had a request to bring back Tastykakes , a Philadelphia-based snack food brand with a cult following. I brought back Snowballs, ( which I reported on a few years ago and required several stops before I found a box that would remain fresh by the time I returned to TO) and today's featured product, Chocolate Kandy Kakes. Package Notes : Clean-looking blue and yellow background, with child-like font. What's It Like : Think miniature chocolate cupcake, not much larger than a thick cookie (Amy compared their appearance to Snackwells Devil's Food cookies). One of the main selling points of Tastykakes is their short shelf life, so my fingers were crossed this box had not gone stale early. It hadn't - the cakes were fresh and chocolaty. The layer of white goo tasted less artificial than cheaper cupcakes. Bonus points for looking almost exactly as depicted on the box. Would You Buy It Again? : Definitely. Friends I shared them...

Puchased at an Acme in Clifton, NJ I rarely buy snack cakes, but made an exception on the roadtrip. I'd read raves about Philadelphia-based Tastykakes over the years, so why not give them a shot? But what to pick - Butterscotch Krimpets? Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes? The winners, chosen through the highly scientific eeny-meeny-miny moe, were Snowballs and Jelly Krimpets. Krimp on this! Mmmm...snowy Package Notes: Nothing oddball, just a smart blue scheme. The Snowballs were wrapped individually, while the Jelly Krimpets were in two-packs. What's It Like?: The Snowballs were very fresh, with moist cake and non-sickly vanilla filling lying under a mound of coconut-studded "marshmallow". Didn't have an overwhelming chemical taste like some bargain-basement cakes. My mom would have liked these, even if they weren't pink like the kind she used to get. The Jelly Krimpets did not live up to the brand name. A blah, bordering on stale, sponge cake with a...