Food of the Seventies, Ring Dings
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Chocolate covered, small round chocolate cakes with cream in the middle. Wrapped in gold foil with a blue Ring Ding logo. About 10 came in a box, and they were a favorite in my metal Barbie lunch box.
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Does anyone remember there being a Peanut Butter Ring Ding. Not a Funny Bone, a Ring Ding that had peanut butter inside.
Yes. They were called Ring Ding Jr. I believe and they were awesome!!!
What happened to the milk chocolate ring dings with the vanilla cake inside. That is the one that I am pining for.
Does anyone remember back in the 60's the Original Ring Ding before it became a junior. It was sold as a single in cellophane but it was 3 times the size of Junior cost about 15 cents if I remember correctly. Had chocolate coating over a suzieq type horizontal vanilla cake with creme circled in the cake? No there's some comfort food lol
In the 70's when I went to high school, I would buy a Ring Ding every day at lunch for 10 cents....and those were HUGE compared to the ones they have today.
Does anyone remember the song that the little boy sang as he pined for a Ring Ding?
YES, I remember the bigger sized rings dings from when I was a kid but none of my friends believed me that they used to be bigger than the current smaller sized ones. Thank God for this site so I may now prove them WRONG !!!
I grew up on Ring Dings in the Bronx. There is nothing better than a Ring Ding. I would love to find a place in Tampa that sells them. I bought four boxes last week when I was in South Florida.
The original Ring Ding that came in the individual cellophane package was about 3 inches in diameter and the cake was much more moist. There was a white cardboard underneath it that you could hold onto while you ate it and not get the chocolate on your hands. I really miss those!
getting back to the original question... does anyone remember the ring ding with peanut butter on the inside? ..not a funny bone, but a peanut butter ring ding.. maybe it was just for a limited time?... i remember them coming in a gold foil but cannot find any proof of this online.. can anyone help ?
I hear you.. I remember going up to my neighbors when I was younger and she bought them just for us.. She use to tell us not to bring the other kids in the neighborhood otherwise she'd have to give out the regular ones. I've been looking everywhere for them and My kids think I'm nuts.
I remember back in the late 60's and early 70's there were both Yodels and Ring Dings covered in WHITE CHOCOLATE and inside had CHOCOLATE CREAM!! Man those were the best. My best friend and I would get a box of each and go to the College Football game in town and eat the entire 2 boxes..then get home and be sick!! But it was the best!
I was just discussing Ring Ding Jrs with my friend and they are no longer called Jrs. I lost A bet. I lived near a Drakes Outlet and I would get on a regular day 4 boxes of 12 for 1.00!! On a day or 2 old day 10 boxes!! Lucky for me they relocated. I got sick too. I was happy I didn't get worms... Just being gross !!WHAT MEMORIES!!
This may be of interest to Ring Ding and Yodel lovers.
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I loved Ring Dings and still do. Weren't they wrapped individually in pseudo tin foil. When I walk past them now in the supermarket I look at the boxes longingly. Need to keep the weight down. Oh the pain..I could scarf down a box in 15 minutes easy.
i remember the song...... ring ding, ring ding, wish i had a ring ding........... it sure brings back old times
Wow! It's nice to see others who feel the same way about Ring Dings. They were my favorite back in the 60s. I would buy for for $.10 and just savor it. If I only had a nickel, I would get a Devil Dog. These are now sold in the vending machine here in NYC for $1.25 for a small package of two. The Ring Dings still taste good to me, but the Devil Dogs are not what I remembered.
Shemp, what's a Ring Ding? It's a chocolate cake. Yeah? With lots of creamy stuff. Yeah? And chocolate frosting all the way around it. Even on the bottom? Yeah, on the bottom too. Sure do wish we had some now. Hey Shemp, you know what? I've got some money. Come on, let's get some. Yeah. Oh, boy there they are. (They eat them) Ring Ding Ring Ding, wish I had another Ring Ding.
Jack - "chocolate cake on the top and the bottom and the middle is delicious creea-m! Ring Dings are better than anything Ring Dings are better than anything!" That the tune you're looking for? And yeah, they were the size of a hockey puck. Not the cheap little pretender sold today.
I just want you all to know that I really did extensive research. Followed the Dead right up until the Fish period, followed technology from Cobol on AS400 to linux, lived in Boulder, Eugene, Austin, had a mustang, a civic, then a merc. For the record RING DINGS ARE BETTER THAN ANYTHING. RING DINGS ARE BETTER THAN ANYTHING. Anything. Do you hear me?
When I was a little kid around 1970, I distinctly recall a white ring ding with chocolate zig zag stripes. Am I imagining this?
I am here in the south pining away for a ring ding or anything drakes for that matter! I stock up when I go home. Little Debbie's are NOT the same-neither are Ding Dongs-taste like wax!
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