that reminds me of the one time I tried the bricks of disappointment known as Tiger Tails
Yeah, the raspberry are the ones that I thought “paid off” the promise of Zingers’ commercials during the Peanuts specials once I actually got ahold of Zingers in my 20s. I’m not super excited about them or a Twinkie (and Hostess apparent;y makes both now), but if I’m high in a convenience store and want a sugar bomb, I’m likely to grab some raspberry Zingers covered in coconut.
My mom cuts them before baking. Otherwise, yes. Heaven on a plate. Pie crust has to be made with original Crisco though.
Regarding Pop Tarts, I always thought the ones that include chocolate to be one of the worst flavors. I was super disappointed with the cinnamon roll ones - I enjoy anything with cinnamon sugar (see above), and I couldn’t believe have wrong they tasted.
Maypo has always been oatmeal. Introduced in 1951, it was the first flavored oatmeal. (It was originally only maple-flavored, but other flavors were introduced over the years.)
See this ancient commercial (first aired in 1956), where it’s described as “maple-flavored oatmeal”.
Fun fact… Supposedly the phrase “I want my MTV” was inspired by “I want my Maypo”.
No, but they can [gross warning] have worms in them. 40 years ago or so, I bought a box from a convenience store only to observe the grossness. Fortunately, my tradition has always been to break the pop-tarts in half before consuming so I was alerted to the grossness.
Cinnamon rolls. I think our “homemade” ones used the dough in the cardboard tube. I remember having a vivid dream in which the indians were trying to burn down our house by pelting the inside of the garage with red-hot cinnamon rolls.
As to that dough in the tube, my mom used to make a disgusting delight with it. She would roll a large marshmallow in butter and cinnamon, wrap it in a triangle of dough, then roll that in butter and cinnamon and bake. They were very, very sticky. I think she called them “ghost rolls”.
What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple?
Finding half a worm.
I see recipes for variants of ghost rolls on Facebook all the time.
Okay, then what I’m remembering is clearly something different and I’ve conflated it with Mayo in my mind. Was there a maple-flavored farina cereal, perhaps? The cereal I remember liking was definitely not oatmeal.
We call them empty tomb rolls and make them for Easter. There is a little story for each part of the recipe to go along with the Easter story.
Throughout the 70s and into the early 80s there was a maple cereal called Buc Wheats.
That was maple-flavored as well. Not farina but buckwheat.
For farina cereal, there’s always Cream of Wheat which I grew up eating (and loved). It eventually had a maple flavor version, but I think it’s relatively recent.
If I may continue the hijack, there was a thing called Cocoa-Wheats. It was sorta like Cream of Wheat but with cocoa flavor. I’d deliberately dump it into the boiling water in one gob to cook it, as opposed to slowly stirring it in as per the directions. The result was glorious semi-crunchy chunks of barely cooked stuff with the rest of the creamy stuff. Topped off with copious quantities of sugar, cinnamon and some cream it was a glorious breakfast.
its still around i buy a box almost every year
sometimes it was better cold tho and if you don’t stir it up it can get cement like
I liked Zingers when I was small, but the last time I had one, as a fully-grown adult, it was not good. I will stick with Butterscotch Krimpets (which I think have now been rebranded as just Krimpets).
I have never heard of them before. I Googled them and they look amazing. I love butterscotch.
Apparently they’re still called “Butterscotch Krimpets”, that’s how Amazon sells them:
The reason I have never seen these things is that Tastykake products only exist in the eastern part of the US. The next time I go out that way, I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
I remember Buc-Wheats. I’m surprised they haven’t made a comeback with the rise in people who, by choice or circumstance, follow a gluten-free diet, because buckwheat is not really a wheat product and is also GF.
Toast-Ems are too sweet for me.
Indeed. Wiki:
I believe a nice GF flour tortilla I buy used buckwheat. It’s the closest thing I’ve seen to wheat. I wonder why it isn’t used more often.
I believe it gets used a fair bit in things like soba noodles.