Talk:Pop-Tarts

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Contents 1 Good article 2 "Billion" vs. "10^9" 3 Cookie vs Pastry 4 Post sold to Post? 5 Eating Pop-Tarts frozen 6 New Commercial 7 New Ad Campaign, 2006 with 'adult cartoon' imagery? 8 Unnoticed Joke 9 Failed GA 10 Wow 11 Snak Stix 12 Pictures 13 Alternate Practical Uses 14 Monty Python 15 Plural 16 Ridiculous Citation 17 Sold in UK? 18 disambiguation request 19 Milton 20 Vandalism 21 why is the article locked 22 More Vandalism? 23 Year invented 24 Don Hertzfeldt 25 Flavors 26 Requested move

[edit] Good article

Whoa. Now this is what I like to see in an article. :) - Furrykef 09:47, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I nominated it. --Gray Porpoise 23:11, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Billion" vs. "10^9"

The article on billion says that its meaning as 10^9 is now standard in all English speaking countries. I think that is also more readable, and comprehensible for readers not familiar with scientific notation. ike9898 00:49, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)

Let me guess what kind of person that would be. Probably a kindergartener, but I remember seeing from a user talk page of a vandal that Wikipedia is not kindergarten. Are there plenty of teenagers who are not familiar with scientific notation?? Georgia guy 15:12, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish here. I don't think Wikipedia is supposed to be an exercise in elitism. More readers of this article will understand the meaning of billion than 10⁹. If you think billion will confuse some people, why not just link the word to billion? SCEhardt 00:44, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Changed back to billion, no link. ike9898 01:20, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cookie vs Pastry

What's up with the flurry of edits lately insisting that Pop-Tarts are cookies and not pastries? Is there a theory or argument behind all this, or is it just vandalism? Multiple users seemed to have the same idea, which was odd. --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 01:30, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Yep. It's a pastry. 12hernn 04:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Post sold to Post?

" Post announced their new product in 1963 to the press, giving them the name "Country Squares." They then sent it to America, and sold it to Post" There's gotta be a mistake in there. —This unsigned comment is by 24.26.168.164 (talk • contribs) .

I've removed the part that doesn't make sense. -SCEhardT 04:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eating Pop-Tarts frozen

I added a sentence to the first paragraph about eating the pastries frozen rather than heated or straight out of the box. I wanted to include a section later in the article about which varieties were part of this marketing campaign, which included special packaging for these varieties (the foil pouches were printed with images that changed color in cold temperatures), and to include a date rather than saying "more recently"; only I haven't found accurate information yet. (I've even searched for it on several Kellogg's sites.) I think this campaign was active in 2005, but I don't know if it had been going on earlier, or is still active; and the varieties seemed to be ones with creamy fillings, especially those flavored like frozen dairy treats like Frosted Hot Fudge Sundae or Strawberry Milkshake. If anybody has the relevant facts, I would appreciate the addition. B7T 21:00, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

They still produce the freezer Pop Tarts, But they don't make new ones.- 12hernn

Earlier this year, they launched an add campaign for Frozen Mint Chocolate Chip (Ice Cream) Poptarts. So, yeah, the campaign is still going on. And they did make new ones. By the way, part of the campaign was handing out frozen individually wrapped Mint Chocolate Chip poptarts for free at the end of all the American Idols Live! 2006 Concerts, and also advertised the flavor at the concerts before and after the show and during the intermission.

[edit] New Commercial

Double Berry is the newest flavor. It is strawberry and blueberry twisted. The poptarts Cherry, Strawberry, Wildberry, Blueberry and Doubleberry are stranded on an island.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.163.101.12 (talk • contribs)

Kelloggs no longer sell Pop-Tarts in Australia.

There is an online petition where you can sign anonymously to get Pop-Tarts back on our market!

http://www.gopetition.com.au/petitions/pop-tarts-australia.html

If you are an Australian craving some Pop-Tarts, give this recipe a go!!!

POP-TARTS

Ingredients 4 cups Flour 1 Egg 1 3/4 cups Vegetable Shortening 1 teaspoon Vinegar 2 tablespoon Sugar 1/2 cup Cold Water 1 teaspoon Baking Powder 16 tablespoon Jam -- any flavor divided 1 teaspoon Salt

Directions In a large bowl, cut flour and shortening together with pastry blender or two butter knives, until completely blended (mixture will resemble crumbs). Add sugar, baking powder, salt, egg, vinegar and cold water. Mix with hands until mixture forms a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Divide dough into fourths, refrigerating the portions you are not working with yet.

Take first 1/4 of dough and roll out onto a floured surface. Cut into rectangles using a sharp knife. It is helpful to make a template the size you wish your poptarts to be, from cardboard or heavy plastic, so they will be a uniform size. Spread on tbsp. jam on one half of the rectangles, leaving a half inch or so on the edges without jam. Cover with the other half of the rectangles. Crimp edges with a fork. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 12 - 15 minutes or until the pie dough is evenly browned and cooked through. Cool completely and place into zip baggies for storage until you are ready to eat them. Repeat with remaining dough and jam until it is all completed.

Variation: Glaze pop tarts with a simple glaze made from powdered sugar, milk and vanilla extract. Be sure to let glaze dry hard before placing pop tarts into storage baggies.

Pop-Tarts may be stored up to one week as you would store bread, or frozen for up to 3 months before use.

Maybe they'd be more popular in Australia if there was a Vegemite version! - Denimadept (talk) 18:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

For that matter, why not meat Pop-Tarts of various kinds? - Denimadept (talk) 23:03, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Ad Campaign, 2006 with 'adult cartoon' imagery?

It looks like Kellogg's has created a new ad campaign. It's somewhat odd, in that the animation style in the TV commercial looks a lot like something created by David Firth. In fact the stick figure who now appears in the center of the 'O' character in the Pop-Tarts logo looks like Firth's Salad Fingers character. The pop tart in the "Freeze 'em and Eat 'em" campaign resembles Towelie from South Park.

[edit] Unnoticed Joke

I removed Yogurt Blasts™ Peter North (Limited Edition) from the list of Pop Tart Varieties. If you are at all familiar with Peter North (porn star), you would know right away this is a joke someone slipped in.--Kingadrock 09:27, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

aHA! this made me lol so much!--Deglr6328 11:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Failed GA

Before renominating this article, a few things must be changed:

• Inline citations must be added
• The bulletted lists must be removed or converted into paragraph form (Or broken off into a new article--Esprit15d 13:08, 28 September 2006 (UTC))
• How are they produced?

Some P. Erson 21:07, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Also the lead section is too long.--Esprit15d 13:08, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wow

They were invented in China at the height of the horrors of the great leap forward?! Amazing! Who knew Mao was capable of such feats!--Deglr6328 11:04, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Snak Stix

Odd. No mention of the Pop Tarts Snak Stix spinoff from 1994? (It's like the GoTarts we have today, but comes in fours instead of a single one and can easily be broken individually) There's also no mention of Pop Tarts Crunch from 1995. Leileilol 22:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

i forgot about the snak stix-lol i liked them. should deff include in the article somewhere

[edit] Pictures

Honestly, do we need TWO pictures of Pop-Tarts? One is enough, and the box. —ScouterSig 16:30, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alternate Practical Uses

This page shows some 'serious' research into alternate uses for the strawberry pop tart. Because I'm lazy, anyone else feel like adding something about it into the article? --3Lance 12:39, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Monty Python

"At first, there were only four flavors of Pop-Tarts: strawberry, blueberry, cherry, apple currant[citation needed], and cinnamon."

Right. Komet 23:36, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plural

I find the assertion, that Pop Tarts should not be ever said in the singular, is ridiculus. I know of no one who would say that they "are going to have a PopTarts"!

Agreed. A Pop-Tart is a Pop-Tart.

I also agree; this should be moved to Pop-Tart. Retodon8 15:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I disagree: the brand-name is plural. (The fact that they are packaged in pairs is slightly applicable, too). —ScouterSig 15:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ridiculous Citation

Somebody asked for a citation on the fact that you don't have to refrigerate Pop-Tarts. I cited it. =D Panzer V Panther (talk) 05:58, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sold in UK?

The article states these are sold in the UK... but I've never seen them on a shelf in my life. Has this been checked out? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.69.194.158 (talk • contribs). In the UK you can buy them in asda, but in other shops they are not easy to find.
The main UK supermarkets do sell them but they usually occupy the bottom shelf and are at the end of the aisle. Something that would suggest that they are not particularly popular ad are not being promoted. LewisR 20:55, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I've added some more {{fact}} tags and removed some unsourced info:

The process of making Pop-Tarts begins when pastry dough is rolled through a conveyor belt to form two sheets of crust. The flavored filling is squirted onto the bottom sheet, which is covered by the top sheet. The crust is then cut into rectangles and rolled through a 300 ft (91 m) long oven. Meanwhile, frosting is mixed in tanks and pumped onto the rectangles when they emerge from the oven. The final step is to weigh and drop sprinkles onto the frosting.

-SCEhardT 15:52, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I didn't know they were still sold here. I haven't seen them since the mid-Nineties. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.174.89 (talk) 16:33, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] disambiguation request

I believe that this listing needs to be modified into "Pop-Tarts (pastry)" due to the new term of "pop tart (female vocalist)", e.g. Britney Spears, Christina Aguliera, Pink, et al. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 170.128.175.210 (talk) 11:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Milton

I performed in a commercial for poptarts with milton the toaster. Although I cant recall the year the premise was that I was going to act as a pirate in a school play and pop-tarts were providing encouragement. I saw my commercial air on TV in LA, but never saw annother poptarts commerical with milton after that, except as an part of a 2-D animated montage to music. I never huged milton in that commercial and, although I dont know for sure, my impression was that it had nothing to to with any controversy, merely that advertising styles had changed and cereal companys were moving away from cartoon spokesmen to more stylized commercials. 76.212.144.189 07:27, 5 November 2007 (UTC) Sandy

[edit] Vandalism

Could someone edit to fix the following: "and s'mores(aint shook)." Please remove "(aint shook)" which makes no sense in this context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.92.124.14 (talk) 17:29, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. -SCEhardT 18:47, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] why is the article locked

o 142.162.183.13 (talk) 20:56, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Chronic vandalism. -SCEhardT 23:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More Vandalism?

I could be wrong... but I don't think Post was working on a way to package "dog food" when they came up with Country Squares. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atmdrgn (talk • contribs) 21:17, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Check out http://www.wholepop.com/973580985/features/toasters/poptarts.htm (search for "dog food"). Note that I haven't looked into the reliability of that source, but it isn't typical WP vandalism. -SCEhardT 23:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Year invented

Can some one place the year when pop tarts were invented? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.88.131.113 (talk) 05:27, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Part of the article was missing. It has been replaced now -SCEhardT 05:36, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Don Hertzfeldt

I actually came to this article to see if Don did the new Poptarts commercials...I am horrified to see that he did not. Yikes looks like a lawsuiiiit! 71.68.15.63 (talk) 17:25, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Flavors

An anonymous user added "chocolate vanilla creme", which I found strange so I looked it up. Dang, Kellogg's can get strange!! list of pop-tarts products - Denimadept (talk) 21:21, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move