Lola by Todd Clark for September 23, 2022

I really don’t miss those things.

She is on to something there they have always shorted us on the frosting.

How about pop-tarts that don’t break in the toaster?

Don’t we all

Franz bread Co has made their fruit pie turnovers a third smaller and the ingredients is like eating flavored tar.

Amen, sister! Nobody wants those unfrosted ends.

the unfrosted corners are for the dog

I asked my wife to get some pop tarts when she went grocery shopping. She got the unfrosted ones. I didn’t eat them, but my grandson did.

Pray hard, Lola ! We need a miracle.

Pop tarts are the cause of a loss of faith

Jeez, just eat the sugar out of the bowl if you’re that strung out.

What does it accomplish if it misses your own behaviors? Sending money to someone like World Central Kitchen for example has a better chance of positive outcome. Just saying warm fuzzy thoughts without action are shallow.

We pay a premium for name brand items. You think they would take the effort to provide quality product. So many times there is very little frosting. Then there are those that are only half-covered with the right amount frosting. Every box at least has one or two that are crumbled or broken. Recently I had one were the bottom third of it was and mangled and mashed and the filling was all over the place — how could that ever happen? Perhaps they think they are too big to fail and can cut corners? Manufacturers always work hard to finds ways to give us less for more money!

She should be grateful for what she has! Why, I can remember when Pop-Tarts didn’t even come with frosting!! (That was also back in the days when we walked five miles in the snow, uphill — both ways, of course — to buy them.)

Full disclosure: I really do remember, going back to when I was a little boy, that the original Pop-Tarts were not frosted. That came a little later. I just googled it and learned that they were first marketed in 1964; frosting was added in 1967.

When Pop Tarts were originally introduced there were several flavours, strawberry, blueberry and cherry, IIRC and NO frosting. Now the Pop Tarts are just a vehicle for the frosting. No thanks. But in the late 80s I did like to read about Cherry Poptart even after Kellogg’s forced the writer to drop the Poptart from the title.