Rickey Purdin’s discovery of Green Lantern GLO-Balls in the supermarket has been making the rounds of comics blogs this week, but he spotted another super-hero-themed snack at the same time: Flash Cakes.
OK, so the name doesn’t amuse the inner twelve-year-old. But it does call to mind those 1970s Hostess ads in which super-heroes, the Flash included, defeated villains with the power of Twinkies. Usually they were low-rent villains like the Bureauc-Rat, Destroyer, Medusa and Dr. Sorcery, but occasionally real villains like Mirror Master or the Penguin.
They’re also surprisingly close to convincing me to buy Hostess cupcakes for the first time in a decade, and I’m married to someone who can make considerably better cupcakes in her sleep. (Of course, she’d probably draw the Flash symbol on the top, rather than simply toss yellow sprinkles onto the red frosting.) Update: She did!
Oh, for the record:
Here’s a link to the Mirror Master Twinkie ad for those who haven’t seen it:
http://gorogues.tumblr.com/post/764038310/aw-man-defeated-by-goddamned-twinkies
I think the next products should be snacks based on Flash and GL villains. Larfleeze has great potential.
We need a green-creme Oreo variant to tie in with the Martian Manhunter.
8 individually wrapped SCARY cakes? What’s so scary about them?!
What’s so scary? Have you read the ingredients on those things? 😉
If the cakes aren’t going to give you superpowers, then why bother even eating them?
Those who still suffer from a bit of metabolism issues while using their speed could use a cheap snack like this to load up on.
Don’t underestimate the power of the Flash Cake.
Going on a hunt for these today.
Yes! Like that Baby Ruth commercial with The Blur!
Searched all over for them last night hoping I could pick some up. The result? Flash Cake Failure.
I saw these in an ad in a DC comic that came out this week. I stared at the page for a full minute thinking, “I don’t really want to eat them, but I have to buy these.” How do I preserve them, though?
I’d say eat the cakes, keep the box. If Zombieland taught us anything, it was not even Twinkies can last forever.
Where do you get those Hostess Cakes?
Dammit all! Now I have to go on at least a 3 county hunt for these things!:P That is unless I find them at the first hostess store I go to.
Hey guys; I forgot about Wonder Bread / Hostess outlets; there was one in my home town, and one near me now. I’m banking on them having the flash cakes. Here’s the store locator, pop in your zip and see if there’s one near you: http://www.bakeryoutlets.com/storelocator.asp
I had no idea Hostess had outlet stores.
How else would flash supply himself with
twinkies, cup cakes, and fruit pies?
Went to the Hostess outlet; no luck, but they said it may be in next week, so I’ll try again then.
Also, Hostess is having some sort of sweepstakes, be on a comic cover, comic subscriptions, and stuff, whatever. BUT you can play a Justice League game AS THE FLASH!!!
http://www.hostesscakes.com/justiceleague/
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Finally found the flash cakes! Check your local Target! (But also check the expiration dates)
Expiration dates? Awww, I thought those things were supposed to outlast a nuclear winter!
Yeah… I accidentally grabbed an October box and they were turning into fuzzy Green Lantern Glo-Balls.
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