Oh memories of guiding rafts in NC in the 80s. We'd send the afternoon trip off, then have a little pop tart break before firing up the bus to go pick them up.
Cinnamon frosted for me ... So Much Sugar.
Raspberry is superior to strawberry and it’s not even close. And of course they should be toasted. They’re the perfect size and shape for it. What other toasted item exposes just enough to get hold of when it’s done?
But the best Pop Tart isn’t even available anymore: the unfrosted peanut butter.
Frosted cherry (if you can still find them) lightly toasted. Or frosted brown sugar cinnamon. In a pinch, unfrosted strawberry, toasted. They have to be toasted people, lest they get gummy.
S’mores is the answer here; which is so good that I burned myself rushing to eat one on my way to work & had to tell my boss what happened. The burn was bad. I was so embarrassed.
My favortie is brown sugar pop tarts untoasetd. I spent a long time working third shift and had to do the foods before the caf opened. It was the best the vending machine had to offer and the toaster didn't work.
When I was pregnant I got a package of Trader Joe’s knockoff strawberry poptarts which were generally fine but one little packet must have been between squirts on the frosting machine and were naked and you are all lucky you weren’t there.
He played multiple sports, could not gain weight and did not like dessert - I spent his entire childhood asking him if he wanted peanut butter on whatever fruit or food he had in his hand.
There was this lovely apple cinnamon one with a light dusting of cinnamon on top that got discontinued ages ago, but the apple strudel is too sweet for me.
Pop tart are the confectionary equivalent of Mexican decorative tiles, just as savory twice as hard. I didn't know they came unfrosted though, that must taste like a wallet full of paint.
I'm flexible on filling but the frosting is nasty and so unfrosted is the way to go. I think I prefer toasted but if i've got Pop-Tarts I'm probably not toasting them.
Everything is better with butter. I have a butter preference for my pop tarts, too. It’s gotta be a French style or high cream/high fat butter. And it must be salted. It goes on everything.
Pop-Tarts' biggest crime is 'what they call pastry,' anyway. Untoasted it has all the charm of a lobotomized pecan sandy, toasted just means "you tried to improve it with heat and it's warm but still sucks."
American food was rare and exotic in '90's northern England. so I was excited to try food from the movies. They tasted like artificially sweetened disappointment. My friends mam described them as "a bag of wank". Not that I'm judging anyones PT enjoyment or anything.
Oreos! Every book and every movie seemed to suggest that they were the most delicious, ambrosial treat. Tasted like a bourbon cream with clinical depression.
I hate Oreos with a passion. Loved them as a kid, but I think they changed ingredients about 20 years ago, or my tastes changed, and I cannot abide them anymore.
There are good recipes for home-made ones. I like the bravetart recipe. I could conquer a continent with those cookies: all would worship me. If you have a baker in your world, worth checking out.
There was a great version decades ago called Hydrox so much better than Oreo. I see you can still buy "the name" in some places, but I bet they are nothing like the ones of old.
I don’t eat much standard commercial food anymore so it’s hard for me to judge this too broadly. But it’s amazing how much some minor cost-saving measures by large corporates have ruined so many mass-produced foods. Carr’s crackers, Breyer’s ice cream come to mind.
Carr's Ginger Lemon cookies were the bomb until they changed something about 10 years ago. Not the same at all, in fact, I don't even know if they still exist.
Oh blessed bob, Breyers. Their mint chocolate chip was my absolute favorite of all time. They changed the recipe and started "air churning" and I. Cannot. Eat. That. Shit. /sigh/
I wonder if they put more sugar in the dough of the unfrosted ones. I haven’t checked recently but for years the unfrosted had more calories than the frosted.
When I was a kid in the 80s/90s, there used to be these knock off poptarts where the unfrosted ones had a sprinkling of sugar crystals on top and those were honestly the best poptarts ever. I think about the strawberry ones way more than is reasonable
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Otherwise this is as correct as it can be, since the cherry unfrosted ones have all but disappeared.
Cinnamon frosted for me ... So Much Sugar.
But the best Pop Tart isn’t even available anymore: the unfrosted peanut butter.
But honestly, it’s been years since I’ve had one.
#BrownSugarCinnamonGang
The cold does something magical to the marshmallow.
Apple-filled ones used to have a kind of cinnamon drizzle — those were good. But pop tarts with that glop on top are yich.
Cut off the crust
Chocolate is good
But cinnamon's a must
You'll be surprised
You're doing the Breakfast Mistake
And while I DO like them toasted, who the hell has the willpower/patience to wait so, untoasted club it is.
Right ?
PopTarts are already plenty sweet from the filling without piling a bunch of sugar on top to drown out actual flavors.