I don't recall if there was already a thread where you can say pretty much anything that just popped into your mind, but don't feel like creating a separate thread just for that. So feel free to use this thread as a trash can for your random thoughts that you want to say out loud for some odd reason, not really caring if others read it.

I'll start. I read about the new Pop-Tart movie by Jerry Seinfeld ("Unfrosted"?), and it made me interested in Pop-Tarts, the term I recall hearing but never knew what it was, and especially how popular they apparently were or still are in US. Seinfeld even said that when he ate his first Pop-Tart as a kid, he thought it was so tasty that it made all other kinds of food redundant. Funny.

So I read about them, lots of different flavors, and to me it was also a surprise they are a sweet snack. I was under the wrong impression it is a salty snack, possibly because in the movie "The Love Guru" (an underrated movie IMHO, I laughed a lot in the movie), Justin Timberlake offered Pop-Tarts with ketchup, calling it a Canadian pizza. Ok now I get it, it was a joke, Canadians allegedly eat sweet Pop-Tarts with ketchup and call it a Canadian pizza. Ha ha, Canadians and their ice hockey.

Due to Seinfeld, I now got an urge to try Pop-Tarts for the first time in my life, is it really as good as he claims or is he full of shit. To my surprise (googling it) it apparently is nowadays available also here in Finland. Not sure how long it has been. By the Wikipedia article, I thought it is available only in US, Canada and UK.

So, yeah, I guess I will go buy my first (and possibly last) Pop-Tart packet tomorrow. Maybe the blueberry one or the one which is supposed to taste like vanilla ice cream, maybe both, if available. Wish me luck. Should I get any drinks with it, e.g. some cheap lager beer? They are now selling 0.99€ Coop lager in the local supermarket, that is very cheap by Finnish standards. Come to think of it, I want to also know how such cheap beer tastes.

It is a bit like I can at least say I've tasted Twinkies, the sweet creamy pastry you see in movies like Die Hard and Zombieland. When I was a kid, my big brother brought one to me when he came back from his exchange student year in US (Anaheim). It was my first and last Twinkies, at least I know now how it tastes. It was a bit smashed and broken from the long trip, but it still tasted ok, flew all the way across the Atlantic, only to end up in my mouth. Yes it was sweet and creamy.

Since they are overly sweet, I had unsweetened black tea when I ate them to cut down on the sweetness.

The thing is that US-based snack cakes tend to be be overly sweet because they use some combination of Corn Syrup and High Fructose Corn Syrup, both of which are sweeter than table sugar. (This isn't a debate or statement of which is worse, just about the level of sweetness.) Fortunately for me, I live in a part of the US where it's super easy to find the Mexican version of US snack cakes and soda. Even Costco sells the Mexican versions and sometimes not the US versions.

I don't think you're missing anything if you never eat a Pop-Tart.

That's such a sweet random talk. :P
Thanks for sharing.

Good call, as I've kinda lost my sweet tooth as I've been getting older, not really craving for sweets and candy anymore as I did as a kid. Not even chocolate, which is odd. Sure they taste kinda nice etc., but quite often I nowadays feel something is "too sweet" when younger I'd eat it delightfully. E.g. I can't stand eating birthday cakes at all anymore, yuck.

I take it as a positive because now I use less money on unhealthy snacks and candys. Still, since I now realized what kind of social phenomenon Pop-Tarts apparently is, I want to try it at least once. Maybe my kids will love it too.

Salty snacks, and kinda sour desserts (like curd) still work for me though. I try to avoid snacks altogether though, this is merely an experiment and a learning experience of a social phenomenon..

Maybe I'll try it with my morning coffee, which I drink without sugar anyway (+ a bit of milk).

I think corn syrup is commonly used here too in all sweetened sodas, juices etc... unless you specifically buy the unsweetened/non-sugar version which has aspartame etc. instead. Anyway I have heard corn syrup will shoot the blood sugar levels through the roof, and if you drink corn syrup drinks etc. often, you end up quite fast with liver cirrhosis, similarly like heavy (alcohol) drinkers do. In addition to other health problems like obesity etc. Hence I let even my kids drink juices and sodas only on weekends and so, otherwise milk or water with food. Better for teeth too.

Too bad I've kinda lost my craving for sweets when getting older, so it is possible Pop-Tart will be a rather meh experience to me, maybe even "too sweet, yuck!". But have to try anyway since they are even making a movie of it now, cultural phenomenon.

BTW are they more of a "kid thing" in the US, ie. it is mainly kids who might eat them for breakfast, lunch, dinner and/or supper? Or do grown-ups eat them just as well?

Or have they even lost their popularity already, and people think "oh yeah, I used to eat those in the 1960s, back when Kennedy was shot at the Woodstock festival which was arranged on the surface of the Moon... Are they still really selling them somewhere? Finland?!? Wow, so that is where they all ended up..."?

I ate pop tarts when I was late for work and had to bought my breakfast from a vending machine. They might also make good survival food for preppers.

I also noticed that I have less taste for sugar as I get older, but I still crave chocolate, especially milk and white chocolate. So I check the labels, but no matter what I buy, they end up too sweet. Once my finances improve, I'm planning to try making some chocolate at home with cocoa butter and powdered milk.

Yeah that was interesting too, as I read the label, it seems they've added all kinds of nutrients to Pop-Tart as well, making it almost a "healthy" snack on paper? Heck it seemed to have even folic acid that is in e.g. broccoli, and which the doctors always remind pregnant women (or even those who are trying to get pregnant) should get loads of so that their kids don't become retarded, important for brains or some shit. (I eat raw broccoli almost every day, but I haven't noticed myself becoming smarter, almost the opposite; I guess I could have eaten Pop-Tarts all this time instead?).

So much talk about Pop-Tarts, and I still don't have one in my mouth like I promised. The whole process itself (using a toaster on Pop-Tarts) also piqued my interest, why does a sweet snack need that? (I read some people eat them raw/cold as well, without a toaster.)

I discovered Pop-tarts last year, during a trip to the US. I was in a supermarket, looking for some affordable breakfast, and saw the Brown Sugar Cinammon ones. I bought them, tried them and liked them. There are better things to breakfast, though, including Quaker's Cruesly. Incidentally, I go to France to buy these cereals, as in Spain the boxes are smaller and much more expensive than in the neighbouring country.

As a side note, Unfrosted is an awful movie. I guess Jerry Seinfeld is not the same we used to know in the 90s (although probably his former success was mostly merit of Larry David...)

Pop-Tarts are a classic American snack with lots of flavors to try. Starting with blueberry or vanilla ice cream sounds good. Pairing them with cheap beer might be an interesting experiment.

Pop tarts and cheap beer, an unconventional breakfast for the "win" :D

Haha. If the movie was just a ploy by the pop tarts makers to get more fresh blood interested in them, I guess they succeeded lol.

And while I'm not sure about pop tarts yet, you definitely got me interested in the movie.

Thanks. All I wanted to say is cheesy dibbles.

Actually not a bad film - quite weird in some places too (not what was expected - especially from Sienfeld).