# How do you like your Pop Tarts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 9, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519 "2010-06-09T08:57:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/21 "2010-06-09T22:52:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Discipline](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Discipline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Discipline)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/22 "2010-06-09T23:10:34Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/23 "2010-06-10T00:38:35Z")
I hardly ever have them, but if I do, it is likely cold, right out of the package. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/24 "2010-06-10T00:59:58Z")
Strawberry, unfrosted, toasted. Sadly, this means I don’t usually eat Pop Tarts. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/25 "2010-06-10T01:17:34Z")
I prefer them toasted, but eat them straight from the package more often 'cause I am L-A-Z-Y, and also impatient. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/26 "2010-06-10T01:25:22Z")
I eat cold ones while waiting for the ones in the toaster to finish. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/27 "2010-06-10T01:36:33Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/28 "2010-06-10T03:16:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Acantha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@Acantha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acantha)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/29 "2010-06-10T04:46:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/30 "2010-06-10T07:13:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/31 "2010-06-12T20:16:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/32 "2010-06-13T02:47:17Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-pop-tarts/542519/33 "2010-06-15T00:24:52Z")
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