After I read about the return of Chocodiles on Dinosaur Dracula, I became determined to find them. Now I live in Canada, and they most definitely do not sell Chocodiles in Canada, so everytime I went on a quest for the Chocodiles I had to drive an hour to Bellingham, WA.

I made 3 trips and checked many, many grocery stores trying to find the elusive Chocodile. I’m not kidding in saying I checked 9 different stores in one trip without success.

Finally, Friday August 22nd (my first search with my awesome new wife for a good luck charm) I found the so elusive Chocodile:

Now I can’t claim I was ever lucky enough to find Chocodiles in the days of old pre-bankruptcy Hostess, even at the Hostess-owned stores. So this is my first experience with these chocolate covered treats.

Unwrapped Chocodile

These are “fun size”, which usually means tiny, but in this case is only slightly smaller than a standard size Twinkie. It is a little odd that you get 9 to a box for this “fun size” treat and the plain old regular size Twinkies come 10 to a box at the same price.

Half-eaten Chocodile

After eating them, I can understand why they have been so highly sought-after. They are definitely better than a regular Twinkie. Unfortunately they also suffer from the reformulated recipes of the “new” post-bankruptcy Hostess. All Hostess products taste much much sweeter now, at least more so than I remember from the old Hostess products.

Hostess Summer of Fun

Hostess released a number of special edition Twinkies for their “Summer of Fun”. It’s interesting that the store I eventually found the Chocodiles at had the banana cream Twinkies back in July when I started looking, but did not have any of the other varieties until just recently.

When I picked up the Chocodiles they also had the banana, strawberry, and chocolate cream-filled Twinkies. I couldn’t resist picking up a package of the Strawberry filled, but I passed on the banana and chocolate filled.