"Pop Tarts?"

[grinningghost]

Our foreign exchange student from Austria said that when my DD offered her one for breakfast.

She'd never heard of them!

I thought Pop Tarts were a breakfast staple for all teenagers everywhere. Who knew?

 

[jbdreamer]

People think I am crazy, but I toast my Pop Tarts (cinnamon), then spread on some butter. MMMmmm.

Yea, you would think Pop Tarts would be more widely known.

 

[grinningghost]

People think I am crazy, but I toast my Pop Tarts (cinnamon), then spread on some butter. MMMmmm.

Yea, you would think Pop Tarts would be more widely known.

I love Pop Tarts too. I really thought Kellogg's was an international brand these days - you'd think Pop Tarts would have made it to Europe by now.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

They have strudel over there.

 

[bimshire]

Read the label.

Nothing nutritious about them.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

Nothing nutritious about them.

Get Out!!!!


no seriously, I guess my mistake was ever letting my 12 year old have the first one. Because now, it is pretty much a Pop Tart and a Glass of Milk for breakfast --- or no breakfast at all.


He's skinny as heck. No huge harm if he is getting plenty of protein and veggies at other meals IMHO.

 

[mainewmn]

They are so bad for you but I love them. I don’t fix them for myself tough I only steal pieces of my kids plates and this way I avoid the calories, fat, and sugar.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

The s'mores ones are the best.

 

[hiwaygal]

Did you know that today is National Share a POP TART with someone you love day!?!?!

http://halife.com/daily/triviamon.html

 

[stinkerbelle]

i can just picture the poor kid...
head tilted to the side... "Pop....Tart?"

I do the same thing when DH wants me to iron a shirt

head tilt..."I....ron?"

 

[YetanotherMouseFan]

We had a German exchange student about 10 years ago, and the only thing she would eat for breakfast was some kind of German cereal, dry with milk on the side. The cereal was some mixture of what looked like hay, nuts, dried fruit, chocolate, and unidentified fossilized protein. Grossed my kids out! She had her mother send it to her by the case. She also wouldn't eat warm food after 6 pm for the first 3 months she was here...some kind of health thing, according to her. But, she was a good kid, and we learned to love her.

 

[disneysteve]

Read the label.

Nothing nutritious about them.

Actually, Pop-Tarts are kind of like breakfast cereal in that they are fortified with nutrients. I was speaking to one of our hospital dietitians once and made a joke about serving the patients Pop-Tarts. She actually said she wished she could get them on the menu but they are too expensive.

 

[Free4Life11]

I don't eat poptarts because they're so high in simple carbs; however, I read that it's better to eat something, even a pop tart or donut, than to eat nothing at all.

Now if they made high-fiber pop tarts I would eat them.

 

[Kitty 34]

People think I am crazy, but I toast my Pop Tarts (cinnamon), then spread on some butter. MMMmmm.

Yea, you would think Pop Tarts would be more widely known.

That's ok because my French student we had several years ago had never had brownies!! We sent him home with lots of boxes!!

 

[snappy]

My girls love to eat the strawberry milkshake ones when they are frozen.
You need something quick when the bus picks you up for high school at 6:15 am. Works for us.

 

[Sleepy]

I thought Pop Tarts were a breakfast staple for all teenagers everywhere. Who knew?

I don't know about the rest of Europe, but around here, they are still sort of in 1960......mostly "made from scratch/cook like your grandma" food items with few "ready to eat" options.

 

[mommaU4]

This isn't about pop tarts as much as it is about people from other countries trying new things...
DH and I helped play tour guide once for a group of young people from China at Disneyland. We ate at Pizza Planet and afterwards one of the guys came up to us and thanked us so much for taking them to eat there because he had never tried pizza before and he loved it. It was so cute and kinda hard to think that he had never had what is one of my fav foods! The funny thing is though that if he ever goes out for pizza again he'll be slightly confused because the pizza we got that day was a BBQ chicken pizza! Nothing like what a real pizza would taste like.

 

[supercarrie]

I miss Pop Tarts...the frosted strawberry ones specifically. You can get them occasionally here (or so I have heard) but I haven't found them yet!

 

[Sleepy]

Nothing like what a real pizza would taste like.

Actually, since pizza was invented in Naples, Italy, YOUR version of "real" pizza is not real pizza. In no way does it taste similar.....even down to the cheese.....lol

 

[Sparx]

its not the poptarts that scare me, its the pancakes!! My stepdad would STARVE without pancakes.