Where are you chocolate pudding pie?

The other day Michael came home saying that 7 Eleven had some really good mini fruit and pudding pies...you know, the ones like Hostess makes, except 7 Eleven had their own brand and they put lots of sugar on the outside of the crust. That night happened to be date night, so I mentioned going to 7 Eleven to get one. We went to the one in Springville by our house and do you think they had a chocolate pudding pie? No. Not one. They of course had gross cherry, and lemon, and peach...but no chocolate. (I won't even touch a pastry if it has some sort of fruit concoction in the middle. It has to be chocolate.) The next week we were grocery shopping at Fresh Market and I decided to take a look at their chocolate pudding pie inventory. Nothing again, except for the Little Cutie brand, but it only takes one bite to finish their pies, so it didn't tempt me (but I came away with a few to quench my hunger for the real deal until I could find where they have been taking cover.) Last night we went to Wal-Mart to buy a printer, and again, I thought we should check to see if they had any of the illusive chocolate pudding pies. Goose Egg. Today at lunch, I brought my knock-off chocolate pudding pie, but regardless of the cute size and smiley packaging...it didn't do anything for me. I felt cheated.
Wherever you are regular-sized chocolate pudding pie, I will find you. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, but sometime. The hope of finding you brings with it the promise of a sweet reunion.