![]() ![]() and Ruth McKee decided to name a product after one of their grandchildren, four-year-old Debbie. Little Debbie products are available in most discount, grocery, and convenience stores, both in boxes and as individually wrapped items. They come in dozens of varieties, including the top-selling Swiss Cake Rolls, Nutty Bars, Fudge Rounds, Cloud Cakes, Cosmic Brownies, Zebra Cakes, and Oatmeal Creme Pies. Little Debbie products are primarily cookie and cake-based dessert snacks. Īs of 2013, McKee ships more than 900 million cartons of Little Debbie products each year. The bankruptcy court approved the purchase on April 9, 2013. It was announced on January 28, 2013, that McKee Foods would pay $27.5 million for Hostess Brands' Drake's brand, which includes Ring Dings, Yodels, and Devil Dogs products. McKee, took over, but retired from day-to-day operations in September 2012 and retains the position of company chairman. In 1991, McKee Baking Company became McKee Foods Corporation.Įllsworth McKee, the son of company-founder O.D. McKee Baking Company moved to Collegedale in 1957. They decided to buy back the bakery, which was renamed McKee Baking Company from King's Bakery in 1962, and run it themselves. They moved back to Chattanooga in the early 1950s when Cecil King, Ruth's brother, was in poor health and needed help. After some time, they sold the Charlotte plant. The McKees moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, into a new bakery designed by O.D. decided to sell his business and start over. His father-in-law, however, did not share his ideas. The bakery did well for a few years, but O.D. Wanting to expand, he bought a small bakery, Jack's Cookie Company. Oather started out selling cakes from his 1928 Whippet in the Chattanooga area. The company was founded during the Great Depression by Oather "O.D." McKee and Ruth McKee. The company also formerly operated Heartland Brands. The corporation is the maker of Drake's Cakes, Fieldstone Bakery snacks and cereal, Little Debbie snacks, and Sunbelt Bakery granola and cereal. McKee Foods Corporation is a privately held and family-owned American snack food and granola manufacturer headquartered in Collegedale, Tennessee. Contains 2% or Less of: Cocoa, Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Soy Flour, Sweet Dairy Whey, Polysorbate 60, Buttermilk, Calcium and Sodium Caseinate, Nonfat Milk, Salt, Cornstarch, Leavenings (Baking Soda, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate), Mono and Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin, Modified Corn Starch, Glucose, Datem, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Potassium Sorbate and Sorbic Acid (to Retain Freshness). Sugar, Corn Syrup, Water, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Palm and Soybean Oil Shortening. We should pause at this point to peer into the very depths of all snack cakes, to reveal their common genome. The fact that all three of these elements are individually terrible - aerated lard, dry cake, and a brittle, near-tasteless, micron thing coating - don't matter in the slightest. You get it all: creamy filling, chocolate cake, AND a chocolate crust. In any case, these are pretty much the kings of the snack cake world, for my part. ![]() I can't tell them apart, and I don't know which came first, which is why I am breaking my off-brand rule. Also, the two cakes are exactly the same. ![]() They are, not unexpectedly, frequently confused with Ring Dings, whose name is similar. There is a lot of confusion surrounding Ding Dongs. ![]()
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