When I was a teenager,\u00a0The Queen of Sheba (a.k.a\u00a0my mom)\u00a0introduced our family to Ding Dongs. For some reason we never had Twinkies in the house, but\u00a0Ding\u00a0Dongs were consumed by the barrel-full. One day I opened the Ding Dong cupboard and discovered the name on the package had changed\u00a0overnight to King Don. WTF? Why take a perfectly wonderfully cupcakey name like Ding Dong and mutilate it like that?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thanks to Wikipedia, I now know that I didn’t<\/em> make up Ding Dongs<\/a>. They do so<\/em> exist! Under that name! However, apparently the Ding Dong name is only in use in the U.S. now. Yep, up here in the Great White North, we still have to call them King Dons. But at one time, YES, indeedy, at one time, the Canadian packaging did<\/em> say Ding Dong.\u00a0Now when my two teenagers tell me that “ding dong” isn’t a name for a cakey treat, but rather slang for male naughty bits, I feel quite vindicated that they’re wrong and I’m right.<\/p>\n Guess what else I discovered? Ding Dong recipes<\/a>. Who’da thunk it?<\/p>\n Here’s one called Ding Dong Mousse<\/strong>, by April Vandecamp:<\/p>\n Cool, huh? Click here<\/a> for instructions how to assemble. And let me know how it turns out. Because I’m not making Ding Dong recipes for my<\/em> kids. Not when they insist on calling them King Dons.<\/p>\n Have any Ding Dong recipes you want to share? Twinkie recipes? Uses for a Twinkie? Naughty uses for a Twinkie? Just please\u2014no, no!\u2014no naughty uses for my Ding Dongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ding Dong lives! I’m ecstatic to discover this. For years, I wondered, “Whatever happened to the Ding Dong?” Dare I confess that for decades I worried I made the name up? My kids love a chocolate-covered, chocolatey-cakey, white-cream-filled concoction called a King Don (okay, so do I). Every time I buy a package, they… Continue reading Ding A Dong, Dong, Dong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-and-that","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ding](\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/dingdongmousse.jpg\")
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