Yodels are frosted, cream-filled cakes that are made by the Drake's

Drake's

Drake's is a baking company in Wayne, New Jersey, United States, owned by Hostess Brands, which makes snack cakes such as Ring Dings, Yodels, Devil Dogs, Yankee Doodles, Sunny Doodles, Funny Bones, and coffee cake. Their mascot is a smiling duck wearing a chef's hat and neckerchief holding a...

 company, which is owned by the Hostess Brands. Yodels are distributed on the east coast of the United States

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. They are similar to HoHos

HoHos

Ho Hos are semi-cylindrical, frosted, cream-filled cakes that are made by the Hostess company and are distributed in the United States. These cream filled chocolate cakes have a pinwheel design based on the Swiss Roll...

, which are made by Hostess.

Each plastic package of Yodels contains three 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.

The snacks were featured in the movie Click, in which the main character (played by Adam Sandler

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) becomes extremely fat after eating Yodels for ten years.

They are often referenced as a favorite snack food by Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

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 reporter Neil Cavuto

Neil Cavuto

Neil Patrick Cavuto is an American television anchor and commentator on the Fox Business Network and host of three television programs, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, both on the Fox News Channel and Cavuto on sister channel Fox Business Network.Cavuto also tapes a nightly...

.

They are also a favorite of character Doug Heffernan

Doug Heffernan

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 on the sitcom King of Queens.

Referenced as the preferred food source of the character Jeri in the comic strip PreTeena.
In the episode "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons

The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons

"The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" is the seventh episode of The Simpsons ninth season, that originally aired on November 16, 1997. It was written by Richard Appel and directed by Steven Dean Moore. The episode sees Apu Nahasapeemapetilon marry Manjula, and incorporates several aspects of Hindu...

" of The Simpsons

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, Homer Simpson is forced to choose between buying a Yodel or a winning lottery ticket. He ultimately chooses the Yodel.