Questions about Pop-Tarts

Unfrosted strawberry, toasted until the edges turn brown and crispy, then slathered with butter. :yum:

Toasted until practically burned. I like the toasted crust.

Frosted. Strawberry and cherry were my favorites.

Sometimes I broke it in half.

Untoasted.

Unfrosted brown sugar cinnamon

Nope. Just take a bite and keep eating.

Hubby never had gastric bypass surgery, but he has developed sensitivity to HFCS and can no longer eat American pop-tarts. UK poptarts contain glucose syrup and that doesn’t disturb his gut.

Somewhere around 30 years for me. Never saw the attraction. I can see making something vaguely similar from scratch, but there’d be more filling at it would be freshly made.

63 years old - don’t believe I’ve ever eaten one.

Haven’t eaten one in years, and doubt I would like them now, but as a kid I would take a 1 or 2 straight from the box, no toasting, along with me when I went for walks in the enormous suburban cemetery behind our house (which sort of doubled as a park/recreation area). So they have a certain nostalgia value to me.

Blueberry or strawberry flavor - nibbled the edges off first in order to enjoy the fruitier center last. Didn’t care one way or the other about frosting.

One thing I’ve always been curious about is why there don’t seem to be banana flavored Pop Tarts.

Is this you?

To see the attraction, I think you have to be either a kid, or an adult who was once a kid and considered them a treat.

The point of Pop-Tarts is that it’s the closest you can get to a fresh-baked, warm-from-the-oven pastry with an absolute minimum of effort.

Unfortunately (?) I was a foodie from my youngest days I remember. As a kid I have fond memories of friends’ moms serving homemade Jewish cookies with apricot filling. Telling me to “have another, you’re too skinny”. They were delicious. A pop tart couldn’t hold a candle……

Hamentaschen (sp)?

Yeah, I’d had good pastry before I was ever exposed to a Pop-Tart, so they held no appeal for me as a child. And not now either.

Where the Hell did Grape Poptarts go?
Not to be found, locally.

According to the link that @LSLGuy posted, there are now Banana Bread Pop-Tarts and Strawberry Banana Pop-Tarts Bites. Pretty close.

Today I visited my local groc store to fulfill the Pop-Tarts nostalgia jonesing triggered by this thread.

Of the 23 kinds of Pop-Tarts, only one will fill my square: original unfrosted blueberry. Hah silly person, there’s no way a groc store would carry that boring flavor. They had about a dozen, maybe 15 flavors. Plus a couple flavors of the Bites. But not that one. Nor a shelf tag for it.

Some e-research suggests Wal*Mart carries them, but nobody else does, not even mighty Amazon. Whether they’d be in stock at any of my local stores is another question. I could e-commerce them for a $7 charge on a $5 item. Probably cheaper than driving, but always feels stupid.

Sigh. Great gustatory experiences are never easy.

Yikes. Banana-nut I could understand, but banana bread? What next - pie-crust flavored Pop Tarts?

Followed by selling Pop-Tart crust prefab pie crusts.

Like you can now buy disposable foil pie pans pre-filled with a crumbled graham cracker crust base. But this’ll be crumbled up Pop-Tart crust.

Uggh!

You havethat many flavors available in your local grocery store??

I’m dazzled. :star_struck:

Not quite.

I posted Pop-Tart’s website upthread (post 33) and counted that they make 23 different flavors. Plus they duplicated 3 of those flavors as “bites”: mini pop-tarts. 26 kinds in total.

My store had about 12-15 kinds between full-size & bites. Which as you suggest was scary many. Just not the only one I wanted.

May we invent some flavors of Pop-Tarts? I might like to try adzuki bean Pop-Tarts. How about peanut butter Pop-Tarts?

Use your imagination, the sky’s the limit! As additional new flavors, I propose:

Sugar (hey, at least it’s honest)
Blue Slurpee
Penuche
Caramel
Lemon meringue
Bubblegum
Rocky road (actually I thought that might have existed at one point)

The first savory Pop-Tarts:
Bean taco
Chicken pot pie
Bacon

For the adult market:
Tequila sunrise
Mimosa
Merlot

I could keep this up for quite some time …

Apparently this product existed at some point but was discontinued (along with a chocolate peanut butter version) due to low sales.

There’s also lemon creme pie - not quite lemon meringue, but close. There was apparently a banana creme pie too:

Salted caramel pretzel