Food of the Seventies, Devil Dogs
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Small, rectangular chocolate sandwich cake with curved edges and whipped cream inside. They might still be sold today.
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They are still made today...by Drakes in New Jersey I believe. They still make, Ring Dings, Funny Bones, Yankee Doodles, Yodels and some others. My favorites. I used to have a site where they could be odered online. Google/search Drakes Cakes...Devil Dogs have ALWAYS been my favorites...especially with a cold glass of milk!
I loved devil dogs as a kid and I still love devil dogs as a 56 yr. old psychologist (only I don't eat them as often as I did as a kid. They are still sold by Drakes/Hostess Bakeries which have merged recently within the past few years. So professionally speaking I urge you to go ahead and indulge yourself by eating devil dogs. It will keep you young at heart!
hey,DR STEVE,doesnt your love for devil dogs say something about your childhood?-how was your relationship with your mother?-did your father hug you? and most importantly, are you taking new patients? HAHA! i remember a funny commercial about devildogs whree the boy is singing about his love for them to the embarrasment of his date-i remember every word of it and the tune as well-but your cant hear me on the screen.
Devil dogs are delicious, and i'm crazy about em because.....i love that chocolaty taste and the creamy filling.....i love devil dogs, more than...Marcia!
WHAT ARE THEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They were really big in the Northeast, which was where I had to go to get them, because they didn't sell them in Florida in the '70s. They seemed to be a staple in all of my relatives' houses in Mass.
i love devil dogs! my hubby is from Boston, and his grandmother ships us boxes of devil dogs a couple times a year, because they are not available on the west coast!
"Sometimes you just feel like a Devil Dog" I like them frozen. Stick a box in the freezer! Try it!!
Anyone remember the commercial where the couple are on a date in a quiet movie theater and the guy screams "I love devil dogs more than Marsha!"? YEAH ME TOO!
Devil dogs are delicious. I'm crazy about 'em because they're great. I love that choc-laty cake and the chewy filling. I love devil dogs more than...Marsha!
"Here is my sister, Andrea, before she eats a devil dog; she's a devil. Here is my sister Andrea, after she eats a devil dog; she's an angel... Get it??? Heh heh." Remb
Does anybody know where I might find a video of the commercial Paul mentioned?
Wow...others remember the lyrics...except I remember slightly different words: "Devil Dogs are delicious and I'm crazy about them because...I love that chocolaty cake and the creamy filling...I love Devil Dogs more than Marcia!" I hope someone uploads the commercial somewhere.
I have a box of devil dogs! AAAAHHHH! The angels sing! They were made 11/28/12. My favorite childhood treat...besides...snoballs.
I grew up in New York and was used to the Hostess and Drakes products. When I went to college in Alabama, I was LOST!!! Little Debbie and Tasty Cake, (spell) were no subsitute. Loved, loved, loved Funny Bones, and then when they made the Sunny Doodles, (i think that's the name), it was the vanillia, yellow cake version of the Yankee Doodle? - chocolate cake version, cupcake with cream in the middle. No frosting on these. I liked the Drakes fruit pies, they tasted good, but I think mainly because it came as 2 small square pies in the package.
Can someone help me? In the 70's prob early 80's there was a cake called "Sunny Dogs" the golden/vanilla version of Devil Dogs. I cannot find them on the internet -can someone tell me who manuf the Sunny Dogs?
Yep, I grew up in NYC, so we had Drakes cakes, too. Of course our favorite was Devil Dogs. I like them better than Hostess Suzy Q's b/c the cake was denser. My older brother and I used to like them right out of the fridge, nice and cold. I remember sometimes, when there was one more in the box, it was a race to see who would get home from school first, (he was older and in high school at this time)to eat the last one!
Donna Crawford...you and I are apparently the only two human beings in existence who know about Sunny Dogs. I actually argued with a lady from costumer service at Drakes Hostess because she said there was never such a thing called Sunny Dogs. My family thinks I'm nuts but you and I know the truth! :)
Omg,Jennifer I forgot about this comment. I am glad someone besides myself remembers the golden cake Sunny Dogs. They were much better then a Twinkie. I also called customer service and tried researching and got no where.
Need some help remembering commercial in the 60s don't recall if it was on the radio or TV it was 60 seconds of someone speaking about playing baseball in the schoolyard going home for lunch having a tuna sandwich and a devil dog and later onfinding a piece of devil dog tucked between his cheek and gum and it was like a second rate experience anyone remember please help. Could it have been a Yankee Doodle?
Thomas: YouTube has a 1965 TV ad for Drake's Funny Bone snack cakes, featuring a pair of five-year-old kids. Slogan was: Everybody Wants a Funny Bone. This aired on WINS-TV in New York. Sorry, no vintage Devil Dog ads. The earliest one YouTube has is early 80s, featuring a black couple, back when Drake's was owned by Borden (now by the resurrected Hostess company).
Rob, there was no WINS TV in New York City. Was that upstate somewhere? There was a WINS radio (1010 AM). I prefer ring dings myself. I moved to the DC area in '87 and on a trip to New York I amused my goddaughter by grabbing her, rushing into a Waldbaums, and buying just four boxes of Ring Dings. Right now, I have a box of Devil Dogs in my pantry though. :)
I loved these, especially frozen.
My dad used to pull pranks on a friend of his and managed to convince him that TS Eliot was hard up on money, and wrote the lyrics to the Devil Dog jingle.
TODAY is NATIONAL DEVIL DOG DAY!
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