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# Paula Poundstone: Ring Dings
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2025/01/paula-poundstone-ring-dings/
- Published: 2025-01-23T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-05T19:49:18.000Z
- Description: Veteran comedian Paula Poundstone loves Ring Dings, her favorite little chocolate snack cakes only sold in a handful of East Coast states. She once told a very skeptical Michael Pollan, on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, that they are her reason for living.
- Author: Rachel Belle
- Tags: Your Last Meal, #podcast, #delete-this-tag, #dovetail_6494a97d-ecac-4682-9f2a-395f6c36aaba

Veteran comedian[ Paula Poundstone](https://paulapoundstone.com/?ref=cascadepbs.org) loves Ring Dings, her favorite little chocolate snack cakes only sold in a handful of East Coast states. She once told a very skeptical Michael Pollan, on NPR's *Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!*, that they are her reason for living. 

So host Rachel Belle interviews the pastry chef/owner of [The Ring Ding Bar](https://www.ringdingbar.com/home?ref=cascadepbs.org) in New York City, a bakery that’s recreated the confection with “real ingredients” in 25 flavors. 

Paula talks about how she lived on a Greyhound bus in the 80s, when she didn’t have enough money for motels, why you should read the recipe on the marshmallow fluff jar *very* carefully*,* and why Dick Van Dyke will most likely never have dinner at Paula’s house again. 

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