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Pop Tarts-Quality or Not? / moist and damp cold / breakfast for you? / oatmeal chatter
i haven't eaten a pop tart since shaun cassidy was important
I bet to some of the ladies here, Shaun Cassidy has never stopped being important...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHSADy...
I never had them in my childhood, so the brief window in which poptarts entered my life had to do with an ex who existed on Pop Tarts, Sunny D, and cheddar. I didn't like the fruit flavors, only cinnamon and chocolate. I don't miss them at all.
Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "i haven't eaten a pop tart since shaun cassidy was important"For me, not since before he was important.
[wondering if i could roll with an outfit like shaun's:]
I've always like them frosted (not a fan of the NOT frosted kind) - my faves are blueberry, brown sugar cinnamon, and chocolate fudge... I like to toast them until they're burnt. :) I heard a rumor that they've come out with "wild grape!" flavor - I don't know what to think about the new flavors except that maybe they're kind of weird? I mean, who's the marketing demographic for that kind of weirdness?
The Wild Grape rumor is true, at least according to wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-Tart...
Heidi wrote: "I heard a rumor that they've come out with "wild grape!" flavor - I don't know what to think about the new flavors except that maybe they're kind of weird? I mean, who's the marketing demographic for that kind of weirdness? "People who think that the adjective "wild" says anything about flavor?
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i am holding out for a snozzberry pop tart
Would the snozzberries taste like snozzberries?
Clearly you have, Kevin, since you're the one holding out for it.
larry - we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams
Also, this man might be willing to weigh in on the subject. 
Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "larry - we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams"That we are.
Oooh. I'm with you there. Tarts are good, pop is bad, except for Thomas Kemper's Orange Cream soda. Also, Larry, when did you become a cactus? Are you hoping to make time with the ficus?
Deep inside, Sarah, I think I've always been a cactus. I've made no secret of my feelings for The Ficus, by the way.
I used to toast Pop Tarts, and then butter them. Everything's better with butter, right? I like the brown sugar cinnamon ones.
But I haven't had a Pop Tart in years.
True story:Geese will fight over the brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts. I've seen it happen.
I wish they wouldn't fight over them, though. :(
p.s. I really like that picture Larry posted in 21. It's soooo friggin cute!
Yeah I know, Bun. It's just... ya know?
I might fight a goose for a brown sugar cinnamon poptart.
Why not give each goose her/his own poptart? I mean ... so they won't have to fight.
I refer you to Geese Rules of Possession, #3: If I can take it from you, it's mine. This is why geese can never share poptarts.
Mmmm...I love the toasty edges. Frosted in just about any flavor. However, in my attempt to eliminate HFCS from my diet, I have had to eschew them. But, because God loves me, there is a lovely organic version at EarthFare I'm going to try. Frosted and everything!
I eat very few Poptarts and have never considered feeding them to the geese. Seems like it wouldn't be healthy for the geese.Can't stand any of them to be frosted. I love the cinnamon, chocolate, strawberry, and blueberry ones.
But I have chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. Poptarts, on the rare occasion I have them, are more like a second breakfast, or maybe a mid-afternoon snack!
The corn people have subverted our collective diets. ConAgraMonsanto, Inc.
This is true. I felt really guilty about all my food choices after reading The Omnivore's Dilemma. But I'm glad I read the book - it's very enlightening about the modern food supply.
And it has inspired me to start improving my eating habits. I'm still eating cookies for breakfast, but I'm fixing other parts of my day - and I'm looking for a better breakfast alternative.
I eat cookies for breakfast. I did it yesterday. I can't imagine they are worse in moderation than "muffins" (aka breakfast cake) or even a biscuit. Did it yesterday. Sugars are good in the morning. You've been fasting all night and your blood sugar levels are low. As long as you're not completely bombarding your body with molecules it can't process properly, it's okay to enjoy food.I've heard amazing things about that book. They have it on audio at the library. I think it would be a good knitting book.
The documentaries King Corn and Fresh: The Movie (and the more widely known Food Inc.) are all good introductions to the topic as well.
I have brown sugar cinnamon instant oatmeal for breakfast most days, and amazingly, there's no corn syrup in it. Just actual sugar and cinnamon. Hurray for the store brand! Woo!
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I've never heard of Haggen. Is that the name of the store?
I haven't had tea yet. I should do that...
I usually keep an emergy box of poptarts--brown sugar cinnamon. "Emergency" means like when it's been snowing for three days and I can't get to the grocery store!Like most Nebraskan I keep lots of canned good, tuna, crackers, peanut butter and so on more in the winter. If we do lose power, poptarts can be eaten plain, if you are hungry enough.
Tried the chocolate frosted--didn't taste like real chocolate!
Agreed on the not chocolatey enough chocolate Pop Tarts, Mary. :::considers said Pop Tarts with disdain...:::
WIll these do? 
Dogpatch chocolate "pop tarts"
There's also an Italian restaurant in DC that makes a Nutella calzone, which is kinda the same idea as a pop tart, right?
Favorite Flavors?
Toasted or Untoasted?
I like blueberry, brown sugar, and s'mores, although I can handle strawberry, too. I like both frosted and unfrosted. I want to toast one to see if they're good that way...like I said in another thread, it's been too long since I have.
And quality? Of course...