Filled with Delicious Facts about Pop Tarts

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Scientists still haven’t determined how the filling in a Pop Tart, that has been in a toaster that is at no more than three-hundred and fifty degrees, can be four times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

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Pop Tarts were invented in 1964 as a weapon to destroy the Vietcong army but only concord grape proved effective.

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Pop Tarts were originally going to bear the product name Fruit Scones but they abandoned that idea when they found out Starbucks had already invented scones thirty years later.

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The entire United States ran out of Pop Tarts for two weeks in 1964. For months after this, they were thrown into crowds from behind guards and flaming garbage cans, one box per customer… until a box of Concord Grape Pop-Tarts killed some Vietcong who happened to be in the crowd.

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Pop Tarts were originally intended to be eaten sideways. Because that’s how good girls do it.

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Pop-Tarts owe their existence to the dog food “Gaines Burgers”. The same technology that was used to keep the Pop-Tart fillings soft after months of storage, also kept the damp kibble in Gaines Burgers damp… until they could be fed to some starving cur on camera.

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Pop-Tarts World was a temporary Pop-Tarts store in New York City. The venture folded because no one was interested in eating temporary Pop-Tarts.

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A strawberry Pop-Tart, burning in a toaster, can produce flames about eighteen inches high. This was responsible for a few lawsuits but also inspired Kellogg’s line of fruit-flavored torches.

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“Pop-Tart” is a pun… a play on the term “Pop Art”. This is hilarious to the dozen or so of us who remember what Pop Art was.

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In 2003, the Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) and the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association in testimony to the FDA’S Obesity Working Group mentioned Pop-Tarts by name as a danger to the health of Americans. Kellogg’s responded by pointing out that fresh fruit and vegetables were useless against the Vietcong.

25 thoughts on “Filled with Delicious Facts about Pop Tarts”

  1. You know C I’ve never eaten Pop Tarts, and after reading this, I’m certain I never will … unless Vin Diesel and MacGyver absolutely insist on it.

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      2. I know of her existence, Deb, but I’ve never listened to her sing. Same thing happened with Shakira until I heard her sing the theme from Zootopia. She made a pretty hot gazelle…

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      3. I’m doing another alphabet. Musical artists with a single name. It’s coming along a lot better than I expected

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      2. The only way to make bologna is to fry it until a little caramelized on both sides. Otherwise, it is revolting. My dad would take us on trips and, instead of stopping for lunch, he’d buy a loaf of bread, mustard and bologna. [shudder]

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      1. Oh there are plenty of Canadians who likely love Pop Tarts 🙂 I’m an anomaly, I think.

        Poutine, however, is a WHOLE different matter! I am a purist: HAS to be in made in Québec; has to be made with real, FRESH cheese curds; has to be made with homemade fries… and nothing – NOTHING – else but real (not canned) gravy. I rarely have Poutine because I was blessed to eat the real thing, way back in the day when no one outside Québec had ever heard of it… Most “Poutines” are inadequate wannabes…😉

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