# Pop tarts, breathe free tonight... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 1999, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461 "1999-11-23T07:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/21 "1999-11-23T19:12:00Z")
What a coincedence that this thread should be here! I went through a spell where I picked the strawberry or blueberry NON-Frosted kind. . . don’t know where my head was at there. I like the Wildberry ones okay, but you know what kind I \* refuse\* to try? The Watermelon ones! Watermelon pastry? _I DON’T THINK SO!_ - Leslie (who just finished a loverly Frosted Blueberry Pop-Tart with a proper cup of tea) * * * Leslie Irish Evans [http://leslie.scrappy.net](http://leslie.scrappy.net) ---
**Author:** ![beefymeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@beefymeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beefymeg)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/22 "1999-11-23T19:36:00Z")
You kids are MISSING OUT on the far-superior “Toaster Pastries” - the ones that are actual pastries and have do-it-yourself REAL frosting packets and need to be kept frozen. Pop Tarts are simply a poor, dry, measly alternative. They come in fruit, fruit-with-cream-cheese (SUPER YUM!) and also egg-bacon-cheese varieties. So good. * * * Sucks to your assmar. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/23 "1999-11-23T19:42:00Z")
Yeah but there is something to that dryness, and the way they crumble all around when you bite into one and not leave a sticky residue that makes them so apealing. That and the way those little colorful sprinkles pile up to turn ones keyboard into a rainbow delite. A frozen pastry just cannot do that I say! * * * “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things.” --Edgar Degas ---
**Author:** ![Inky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@Inky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/24 "1999-11-23T21:28:00Z")
Ah! Crackwhore has a point. The letter “J” on my keyboard doesn’t work properly because of an errant pop tart sprinkle. ---
**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/25 "1999-11-23T21:39:00Z")
Frosted Strawberry Pop Tarts with a cold glass of Cow Juice is my preference. I have the ‘Family’ 12 pack for both Cherry and Strawberry. Perfect breakfast and midmorning snack for the financially strapped college student. I can never have enough! * * * “I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”-- Calvin and Hobbes (\_\_) `\/-------\ `| |-----| | …c.c…c.c… ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/26 "1999-11-23T22:00:00Z")
I love those new multi-pack ones they have now, where you get the variety of different Pop-Tarts. Of course, in my family, the cherry and the blueberry are gone the first day. ## BTW, I must be the only one who does not like the cinnamon Pop-Tarts, or the chocolate for that matter. My favorite is cherry or strawberry. Shadowfox “We are what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/27 "1999-11-23T22:01:00Z")
> [@](#): > > No. Pop Tarts do NOT require milk. In fact, milk would totally ruin the experience, > similar to the way that lapping up dog diarrhea would ruin the experience. You know, Opal, for someone who throws a fit whenever anyone questions your vegetarianism, you certainly do care a lot about how I eat my Pop Tarts, and that’s only because you think milk is icky! ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/28 "1999-11-23T23:06:00Z")
I love strawberry frosted Pop-Tarts. They make me happy. They bring me joy. Pop-Tarts are sunshine on my cloudy day. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/29 "1999-11-24T00:06:00Z")
My favorite flavor? The elusive frosted grape Pop Tart. A rare breed but worth the hunt. ---
**Author:** ![keystream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a3d4f5/32.png) [@keystream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keystream)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/30 "1999-11-24T04:24:00Z")
I may disagree with Opal on other food issues, but as far as Pop-Tarts go, she is the queen. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/31 "1999-11-24T04:32:00Z")
Inky, I’ve got to ask… When you titled this thread, were you listening to Rod Stewart’s “Young Turks”? Every time I see this title, all I can hear is “young hearts, be free tonight…” Are you hearing it now? Or are the voices only in _my_ head? Back to your regularly scheduled Pop-Tarts. ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/32 "1999-11-24T10:02:00Z")
GASP Mike I thought it was a fevered dream! A virtual hallucination but HO! Another has witnessed the elusive Grape Pop Tart!! Ihad them once at a friends house and have never ever found them again!!! Oh thank god there is another out there that has tasted of the grapery goodness and talked!!! ## I knew deep in my subconscious that they existed!!! I knew it I knew it I knew it!!! I know that I have put you through hell, and I know that I have been one rough pecker. But from here on, you are all in my cool book.- Seth Gecko From Dusk Till Dawn ---
**Author:** ![Inky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@Inky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/33 "1999-11-24T12:14:00Z")
Well, Cristi gets the prize for spotting the song I named the title of this thread after. Now I can take evil pleasure in knowing that every time Rod Stewert’s “Yound Terks” plays, she will hear distorted lyrics. Kind of like when they used the Beach Boys’ “good vibrations” for that Sunkist orange soda commercial, or “anticipation” for Huntz Ketchup. Inky ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/34 "1999-11-24T12:37:00Z")
Frosted variety: Chocolate Non-frosted variety: Blueberrry Either should definately be accompanied by a glass/carton of very cold milk. When my former job used to keep me on the road a lot, I discovered that when motel bound and without toasters, a Pop Tart two pack will warm up nicely when balanced atop the lampshade directly above the bulb for about half a minute. * * * The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. –Einstein ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/35 "1999-11-24T12:43:00Z")
Cant do pop tarts, they are sooo dry. But give me an ooey gooey cinny bun and a glass of milk and I’m in total heaven/ * * * I am me… accept it or not. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/36 "1999-11-25T06:48:00Z")
Drain, I was just making the point that pop tarts don’t REQUIRE milk. YOu know, the way that human life requires oxygen and so on. While you may prefer it that way, it isn’t a requirement. I’m living proof! * * * – O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/37 "1999-11-25T06:49:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Of course, in my family, the cherry and the blueberry are gone the first day. Your family EATS the cherry ones? Someone get these people into therapy!! * * * – O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461/38 "1999-11-24T19:35:00Z")
I used to love Pop-Tarts. They were great a few years ago. I wouldn’t eat anything else for breakfast. Then they changed the box, and the Pop-Tarts within. They killed my Pop-Tarts! The new ones make me sick to my stomach, they’re so sweet. I miss the good ol’ days. [sigh] * * * _ **SanibelMan** _ - [My Homepage](http://members.macconnect.com/~jonkleinow/) I could be doing something, but… _why?_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-tarts-breathe-free-tonight/11461.md?page=1)