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Ding Dong
Ding Dongs (Ding Dong) are Hostess chocolate snack cakes introduced in 1967 by Continental Baking, named for a bell-ringing TV campaign; round cream-filled, chocolate-coated cakes once foil wrapped, with Big Wheels as their Northeast regional name.
Doritos
Doritos is a PepsiCo Frito-Lay brand of triangular seasoned tortilla chips, born at Disneyland's Casa de Fritos in the early 1960s and launched nationally in 1966; it held 44.7% of the US tortilla chip market in 2022.
Dr. Oetker
Dr. Oetker is a German family-owned food company founded by pharmacist Dr. August Oetker in Bielefeld in 1891. Known for Backin baking powder (1893) and Germany's first frozen pizza (1970), it operates in over 40 countries with €4.3 billion food revenue.
Eggo
Eggo (L'Eggo My Eggo) is an American frozen waffle brand founded in 1936 by Frank Dorsa in San Jose, acquired by Kellogg in the 1970s, now Kellanova; famous for Eleven's Stranger Things obsession and a 14% sales boost.
Famous Amos
Famous Amos is an American bite-size chocolate chip cookie brand founded in 1975 by talent agent Wally Amos on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. He lost control in 1985; the brand passed through Keebler and Kellogg and is now owned by Ferrero.
Ferrara Candy Company
Ferrara Candy Company, formerly Ferrara Pan, is a Chicago-based sugar confectioner founded in 1908, now a Ferrero affiliate after the 2017 CTH Invest acquisition, with brands including NERDS, Trolli, Brach's, and Jelly Belly and FY2025 net sales of $2.2 billion.
Ferrero Rocher
Ferrero Rocher is a spherical hazelnut-chocolate confection by Italy's Ferrero Group: a whole hazelnut in a wafer sphere coated in chocolate and hazelnuts, created in 1982.
Fisherman's Friend
Fisherman's Friend is a strong menthol, eucalyptus, and liquorice throat lozenge created in 1865 by Fleetwood pharmacist James Lofthouse, made by family firm Lofthouse of Fleetwood, and sold in over 100 countries.
Frito-Lay
Frito-Lay, PepsiCo's convenient foods unit formed from the 1961 Frito Company and H.W. Lay merger and the 1965 Pepsi-Cola merger, makes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Tostitos, and Fritos; headquartered in Plano, TX, with roughly 60% of US salty snacks.
Fritos
Fritos is an American brand of corn chips created in 1932 by Charles Elmer Doolin in San Antonio, Texas, and produced since 1961 by Frito-Lay.
General Foods
General Foods Corporation, American packaged-food company formed 1929 from the Postum Company; maker of Maxwell House, Jell-O, Kool-Aid, Birds Eye, and Post cereals; acquired by Philip Morris in 1985 and merged into Kraft General Foods in 1989, distinct from unrelated firms using the same name.
Gerber Products Company
Gerber Products Company, founded 1927 in Fremont, Michigan and owned by Nestlé since 2007, is the leading U.S. baby food maker, known for the Gerber Baby image, WIC-approved products, heavy-metal testing controversies, and a 2026 arrowroot biscuit recall.
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, founded 1852 in San Francisco by Domenico (Domingo) Ghirardelli, is America's longest continuously operating chocolate maker, known for the Broma process, Ghirardelli Square, SQUARES chocolates, and Lindt & Sprüngli ownership since 1998.
Girl Scout Cookies
Girl Scout Cookies are seasonal cookies sold annually by Girl Scouts in the United States through the Girl Scout Cookie Program, begun in 1917, commercially baked since 1936 by ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers, with about 200 million boxes sold yearly.
Gobstopper
Gobstopper, also called jawbreaker in the US, is a hard spherical candy of many layered sugar coats meant to be sucked slowly. The Everlasting Gobstopper, from Roald Dahl's 1964 book, became a real Wonka candy in 1976, now made by Ferrara.
Godiva Chocolatier
Godiva Chocolatier: Belgian premium chocolate brand (Belgium 1926), founded by Pierre Draps in Brussels, named after Lady Godiva; royal warrant 1968; owned by Turkey's Yıldız Holding via pladis, not Campbell Soup or Hershey.
Goldfish (cracker)
Goldfish crackers: fish-shaped baked cheese snack created as Goldfischli by Swiss baker Oscar J. Kambly in 1958, introduced to the US by Pepperidge Farm in 1962, now a Campbell brand icon.
Goya Foods
Goya Foods, Inc., American food company founded 1936 by Prudencio and Carolina Unanue in Lower Manhattan; largest Hispanic-owned food company in the US, HQ Secaucus, New Jersey, 2,500+ Latin cuisine products, family-run, 90th anniversary 2026.
Graham cracker
Graham cracker: thin, crisp American cookie made from graham flour, invented 1829 by Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham as a bland anti-vice health food; now sweetened with honey and cinnamon and used in s'mores and pie crusts.
Haldiram's (हल्दीराम)
Haldiram's (हल्दीराम), founded 1937 in Bikaner by Ganga Bhishan Agarwal, is India's largest snack and convenience food company, known for Bikaneri bhujia, namkeen, and sweets, with Delhi, Nagpur, and Kolkata family divisions and recent Temasek and Alpha Wave investment.
Hamburger Helper
Hamburger Helper (now Helper) is an American boxed meal kit of pasta, rice, or potatoes plus sauce mix, launched nationally in 1971 by General Mills under Betty Crocker and sold to Eagle Foods in 2022 for about $610 million.
Haribo
Haribo (HARIBO, from HAns RIegel BOnn) is a German family-owned confectionery company founded in Bonn in 1920 by Hans Riegel, inventor of the gummy bear (Dancing Bear, later Goldbears), now a global gummy market leader.
Heinz 57
Heinz 57 is both the "57 Varieties" slogan coined by H.J. Heinz in the 1890s after seeing a shoe ad, despite the company selling over 60 products, and Heinz 57 Sauce, a 1911 tomato-based steak sauce.
Heinz Tomato Ketchup
Heinz Tomato Ketchup (Heinz Ketchup, Heinz catsup), the flagship condiment of H. J. Heinz/Kraft Heinz since 1876 Pittsburgh: corn-syrup-sweetened US recipe, sugar-based European recipe, 57 Varieties, ~650 million bottles a year.
Hellmann's and Best Foods
Hellmann's and Best Foods are two brand names for the same mayonnaise product line, split at the Rocky Mountains in the United States (Hellmann's east, Best Foods west). Founded from Richard Hellmann's Manhattan delicatessen in 1905 and Best Foods' San Francisco plant, both brands share the blue-ribbon logo and are owned by Unilever.
Hershey's Kisses
Hershey's Kisses are bite-sized teardrop milk chocolates first made in 1907 in Derry, Pennsylvania, hand-wrapped until 1921, trademarked in 2000, and produced at over 80 million pieces per day.
Hi-Chew (ハイチュウ)
Hi-Chew (ハイチュウ, HI-CHEW) is Morinaga Seika's soft gelatin-based fruit chew, launched 1975 from 1913 Milk Caramel technology, sold in 30+ countries, 233 Japanese flavors, US production since 2013.
Hostess Brands
Hostess Brands, American maker of Twinkies, CupCakes, Ding Dongs, and Ho Hos; twice bankrupt (2004, 2012), revived by Apollo and Metropoulos in 2013, listed as TWNK in 2016, acquired by J.M. Smucker for $5.6 billion in November 2023.
Hot Pockets
Hot Pockets is an American frozen microwaveable stuffed-sandwich brand created by Paul and David Merage's Chef America, launched in 1983 and sold to Nestlé in 2002 for $2.6 billion.
Hydrox
Hydrox is the original creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookie, launched in 1908 by Sunshine Biscuits, four years before Oreo. Discontinued by Keebler in 1999, it was revived by Leaf Brands in 2015 with a kosher, vegan-certified formula.