Yodels are frosted, cream-filled cakes made by the Drake's company, which was bought by

McKee Foods McKee Foods Corporation is a privately held and family-owned American snack food and granola manufacturer headquartered in Collegedale, Tennessee. The corporation is the maker of Drake's Cakes, Fieldstone Bakery snacks and cereal, Little Debbie ...

after former owner

Old HB Old HB, Inc., known as Hostess Brands from 2009 to 2013 and established in 1930 as Interstate Bakeries Corporation, was a wholesale baker and distributor of bakery products in the United States. Before its 2012 closure and liquidation, it owned ...

went bankrupt. Yodels are distributed on the East Coast of the United States. They are similar to

Hostess Brands Hostess Brands is an American-based bakery company formed in 2013. It owns several bakeries in the United States that produce snack cakes under the Hostess and Dolly Madison brand names and its Canadian subsidiary, Voortman Cookies Limited, pr ...

Ho Hos Ho Hos are small, cylindrical, frosted, cream-filled chocolate snack cakes with a pinwheel design based on the Swiss roll. Made by Hostess Brands, they are similar to Yodels by Drake's and Swiss Cake Rolls by Little Debbie. Sold two or three ...

and

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's Swiss Cake Rolls.

Description

Each plastic package of Yodels contains two cakes, totaling 440 calories and three grams of saturated fat. Yodels are also sold in boxes containing five or eight individually wrapped pairs of cakes (a total of ten or 16). Formerly Yodels used a different formula, with thicker, denser cake and came packaged in foil. This was changed by the late 80s to the current recipe and packaging.

In popular culture

Comics

*Yodels are named as the preferred food source of the character Jeri in the comic strip '' PreTeena''.

Film

*The snacks were featured in the movie '' Click'' (2006), in which the main character (played by Adam Sandler) becomes extremely overweight after eating Yodels for 10 years.

Television

*They are often named as a favorite snack food by Fox News Channel vice president and anchor,

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. *In the sitcom ''

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'', Yodels are shared by the characters Ray Barone and

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in Ray's childhood bedroom, after Robert was gored by a bull in the line of duty. *They are a favourite of character

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on the show ''

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''. *In the episode "

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" of ''

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'', Homer Simpson is forced to choose between buying a Yodel or a winning lottery ticket. He ultimately chooses the Yodel. *In an episode of the reality show '' Jersey Shore'', the cast eats Yodels for dessert following an Italian dinner prepared by

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's mother Paula. *In an episode of ''

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'', they are referred to as a possible dessert for wedding guests if the family cannot reduce both the number of guests and the total cost of the wedding. *In an episode of ''

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'', Frasier makes reference to Roz being upset about a Twinkie coming out the Yodel chute of a vending machine. *In the episode "Fast Feud" of the hidden camera-practical joke reality show '' Impractical Jokers'', Joe Gatto tries to convince someone to house-sit for him while a

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named "Chen" eats an entire dinner plate full of Yodels in the background for the entire duration of the scene. Joe points at the monk and says, "It's a Yodel factory over there". Furthermore, Joe later says, "It's paramount that Chen doesn't run out of Yodels". The scene concludes with the monk asking Joe to get him more Yodels

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