How do you like your Pop Tarts?

[Omniscient]

After noshing on some delicious Brown Sugar and Cinnamon straight out of the package while reading in bed late last night I got to wondering if anyone actually toasts these things. And thus a SDMB poll was born.

If you have some bizarre casserole that you make with them which wasn't included as a poll option I do hope you'll share with the class.

[Shark Sandwich]

I toast 'em when I want a dessert-like item, cold and straight out of the box when I just want a quick snack on the go. BS&C, of course.

Also, my kids like 'em toasted in the morning with a little butter spread over the top of 'em.

[Rushgeekgirl]

I like them in the microwave better. They get softer. Brown sugar cinnamon is my favorite, but I cannot have these things in the house or I will eat every single one in a day's time.

[shiftless]

You forgot to include UNFROSTED. I was sure that was going to be the question when I clicked on this thread. It is almost impossible to find unfrosted brown sugar cinnamon Poptarts these days. My children cry each morning. "Why, daddy, why?" they ask me and I have no answer. And I would never let my children have a cold Poptart - they need a hot meal in the morning.

[Justin_Bailey]

Originally Posted by shiftless

You forgot to include UNFROSTED. I was sure that was going to be the question when I clicked on this thread. It is almost impossible to find unfrosted brown sugar cinnamon Poptarts these days. My children cry each morning. "Why, daddy, why?" they ask me and I have no answer. And I would never let my children have a cold Poptart - they need a hot meal in the morning.

Really? My local grocery store always has a giant shelf of unfrosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon and Strawberry.

Me, I prefer the Wild Berry, untoasted. But Chocolate Chip, FROZEN, is good too.

[levdrakon]

I just broke down and got some PTs for the first time in years. WHERE ARE THE RASPBERRY ONES??? I had to settle for frosted blueberry.

Microwave. Heats 'em up yet keeps 'em soft. In the toaster you risk the edges drying out. Cold just isn't right. It's just not.

[blondebear]

I went with cold most of the time...I usually take them on camping trips. Toasting them on a camp stove isn't impossible, but it's not really worth the extra effort.

[levdrakon]

You know who else liked his Pop Tarts cold? Yeah, you know who I'm talking about.

[Gagundathar]

You forgot the option that I prefer best: served to me in bed by a nubile wench slathered in lime marmalade.

[Skammer]

I like the blueberry frosted. I have toasted/microwaved them in my life, but those times a few and far between. I eat 'em right out of the box. Sometimes in the car on the way home from the grocery store.

I can't buy them often; I have no self-control.

[Ichini Sanshigo]

I use to eat them raw. I haven't had any in a long time (so much sugar!).

[Ludy]

I only get them when I go camping so I will heat them a bit on the fire. That IMHO is the only way to go.

[Teacake]

Originally Posted by Gagundathar

You forgot the option that I prefer best: served to me in bed by a nubile wench slathered in lime marmalade.

The wench or the pop tart? Or you?

[runner pat]

Originally Posted by Gagundathar

You forgot the option that I prefer best: served to me in bed by a nubile wench slathered in lime marmalade.

Originally Posted by Teacake

The wench or the pop tart? Or you?

After a while it's all three...if it's done right.

[Freudian Slit]

I have never eaten them cold. I know there are some that are meant to be eaten cold...but the kind where you can toast them...it never occurred to me that anyone would. Eeeew, cold pop tarts? Nasty!

[suranyi]

I never eat them cold. Yuck! But they're so good warm.

[mrklutz]

If someone has the grill going, use that instead of the toaster. Yum.

[pbbth]

Originally Posted by Skammer

I can't buy them often; I have no self-control.

I used to love working for a company that had the individual packs in a vending machine in the cafeteria. I got my pop-tart fix without eating 8 of them, which is normally what happens when I buy a box of pop-tarts. All these pop-tart threads are *this close* to making me put on pants and go to the store right now.

[TBG]

Usually straight from the box, but if I'm actually eating them as a breakfast instead of a late night indulgence, then I will toast them.

[Suburban Plankton]

Strawberry, non-frosted, straight out of the toaster.

Or 'raw' for trail food on backpacking trips.

[AClockworkMelon]

I'll eat any flavor but my favorites are fudge, smores and cherry.

I have never, ever toasted one in a toaster. I've always eaten them cold.

[Discipline]

I used to keep a box of pop-tarts in the dairy fridge when I worked in the back room as a shelf-stocker in a grocery store as a kid.

I ate them *cold*. (And they were awesome that way.)

[Khadaji]

I hardly ever have them, but if I do, it is likely cold, right out of the package.

[congodwarf]

Strawberry, unfrosted, toasted.



Sadly, this means I don't usually eat Pop Tarts.

[gwendee]

I prefer them toasted, but eat them straight from the package more often 'cause I am L-A-Z-Y, and also impatient.

[Carmady]

I eat cold ones while waiting for the ones in the toaster to finish.

[njtt]

I don't like the bottom parts of Pot Tarts; I like the Top parts of Pop Tarts.

More realistically, I like them better hot, but I almost always always eat them cold, because, you know, the only real reason for ever eating Pop Tarts at all is because they are quick.

[Infovore]

I like them warm okay, but haven't eaten them that way in years. I only eat the Chocolate Fudge ones, and always cold. Usually I only eat one at a time--I put the other one away and eat it later. It's hard, but I've got myself trained to do it.

[Acantha]

My kids like them cold, husband toasts them in the toaster oven.

Is it thread shitting to say I prefer mine in the trash? More for them, I guess.

[OpalCat]

Always hated them untoasted. They taste all doughy and gross. Toasted, they're ok, even if they've gotten back down to room temperature. I find I like them less in general as I've gotten older, though.

[TBG]

BTW, don't even bother with following the microwave instructions they've been putting on the packages for a few years. I tried it once, just to see what happened, and sorry, whoever came up with the "microwave on high for 3 seconds" instruction was a moron. After 3 seconds, there is absolutely no discernible difference between that poptart, and one straight from the package.

[OpalCat]

There are instructions for 3 seconds? I nuke ice cream for 8 to get it softened up, but that's the lowest number I ever punch into the microwave

[TBG]

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