BobLeland.com » Twinkies http://bobleland.com Entreprenuerial, Product Development and Pop-Culture Rumblings Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:41:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What Happened To Fruit Pie The Magician? http://bobleland.com/popculture/what-happened-to-fruit-pie-the-magician http://bobleland.com/popculture/what-happened-to-fruit-pie-the-magician#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:22:56 +0000 Bob http://bobleland.com/?p=60 So this is a sad moment for me. As a kid I adored Hostess cakes. My grandmother lived in Natick, MA and on the front side of the Natick Mall right before Speen Street there was a Hostess Factory and Store where we used to stop on every trip to her house. Driving to see grandma on Sundays was like a Pavlov experiment. The minute we entered Wayland I started salivating for Fruit Pies. It wasn’t that I didn’t like Twinkies, Cupcakes, Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s or Suzie Q’s but there was something about a Fruit Pie (Yes, it deserves to be capitalized) from Hostess that made all the bad things go away. Plus Fruit Pie the Magician was the coolest. FPTM was the Hostess Fruit Pies mascot and everyday hero to millions of kids across the country. The guy could make Fruit Pies instantly appear with a wave of his magic wand! I mean come on. Could there be anything more amazing to a 10 year old than a cartoon magician who made snack cakes appear out of thin air and tried to save the day with sugary goodness? I don’t think so.

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