LVSteven's ULTIMATE Pop Tart Review Thread
When you are trying to gain weight, training hard, resting properly and looking for muscle gains you have to EAT.
When you are like me, a total NERD, GEEK and technical fellow and you wear one of them bodybugg devices, you are confident in your daily caloric needs.
When like me, your BRM is between 3700-4100 kcal per day (non training vs training days) and you cannot safely eat any diary without your family wanting to their your gassy self out of the condo, you look for alternatives to fill your macros out.
A GALLON OF MILK A DAY? more like twelve hours of pure evil and a churning stomach.
Enter the Kellogg's Pop Tart
For those of you who do not live in the USA, Canada or the UK you may not be familiar with the Pop Tart.
Developed in the early 1960s, you have a low fat, super high sugar breakfast pastry aimed inexplicably at children.
Look at these macros.
THAT IS FOR ONE PASTRY.THEY COME TWO PER PACK...
Any parent using this as a breakfast staple for children should have their children taken away from them.
When you need them carbs..awesome is the Pop Tart
As soon as I started using my carbs I noticed that the gains I wanted followed.
So I've been including these into my daily eating, and inspired by a review that of different ice creams (you likely know the one if you've been here a while) I decided to review Pop Tarts.
FWIW...If it's worth anything at all
As far as I can tell there are 29 different varieties of traditional pop tarts on the market.
They (Kelloggs) have other products that they use the Pop Tart brand on, but this is just a thread to review the hand held pastry know has for nearly 50 years been known as the Pop Tart.
Hope you enjoy.
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04-11-2013, 11:25 AM #1
lvsteven Presents: The Pop Tart Review Thread - Every Flavor Reviewed
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Interesting idea for a thread. I just got a box of Red Velvet poptarts, they are excellent.
There is no spoon.
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It has a lot to do with how the govt in Canada regulates food products.
Many would argue that for the consumer it means increased safety but it just stymies the market.
I would imagine though that a lot of it is also due to the smaller market coupled with the bi-lingual laws.
Why would Kellogg want to spend too package and market 29 varieties when 8 will do?
Smart money says that if they just had to ship the same boxes over the border they could take more risks in the smaller market, but must print special boxes with the French etc...
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04-11-2013, 05:04 PM #16
review #1 - frosted raspberry
The corporate advertising
"A frosted golden crust with sprinkles on the outside and raspberry-flavored goodness on the inside. The sweet, fruity flavor will rock your socks off."
What you get...
I grew up in a northern climate, where berries would grow everywhere.
Summers were spent with fresh fruit.I can recall that we would often times drive into the southern Ontario countryside and pay per bushel for blueberries and raspberries.
We would pick them ourselves too.
It was fun
If you have similar memories about raspberries (as in fresh picked) then file that away after you won't remember it for a while, because these have a real taste that's not a real taste.
First of all, these aren't bad by any means. they have a short half life (aftertaste) that isn't overly offensive, but if I had to name the flavor based on a blind test I can't say I could.
The texture was nice. Actually this was quite a flaky pastry. I've yet to figure out how and what determines the flakiness of the party but all the pastries I this box were very fresh.
The frosting was a little sweet but not overwhelming, and tasted more like raspberry than the filling.
Most importantly, I am able to eat several of these in one sitting. Since some varieties seem to bloat the heck out of me, this is a plus.
OVERALL
TASTE - 5/10
-- mainly for the fact that this just doesn't taste a whole lot like raspberry. Its good, but just label it "genetic berry bull **** " if you can't nail the flavor.
Texture was great.
EATABILITY - 10/10
-- I can definitely cram several down at one time without wanting to go look at my new bloated baby bump stomach.
PRESENTATION - 8/10
-- I know it's just a pop tart but if you are using that much sugar anyhow, don't just throw them old school sugar gains on top...by creative with it. Plsu, that's some bright filling.
SCORE BASED ON TASTE*
5/10
This is edited. I will base the overall score on TASTE. It is food, after all.Last edited by lvsteven; 04-11-2013 at 07:45 PM.
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