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Submitted by
kathy glaze
a
from chattanooga, tn, usa
Date Reviewed: November 20, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Price Paid: |
$1.00 | | Purchased At: | big lots | | Strengths: | strengths were the texture and appearance of the brown sugar cinnamon and frosted blueberry. Less appealing was the look of the frosted chocolate. Also flavor rated highly and simplicity of preparation. | | Weaknesses: | getting the wraper off | | Similar Products Used: | toastettes, quaker brand toaster pastries | | Bottom Line: | I performed a "taste test" as an activity for about 25 residents of an assisted living facility who have Alzheimer's disease. It was a "sensory" activity where they tasted frosted brown sugar cinnamon, frosted blueberry, and frosted chocolate pop-tarts. Most had never eaten a pop-tart before. They enjoyed the taste test immensely and ranked each flavor a 5/5. They decided butter spread on the brown sugar one would be good and coffee or milk would add to the flavors of the chocolate and blueberry.
We discussed the "flammablity" of pop-tarts left in the toaster and also the nutritional value. As they are of a median age of 80 - they didn't care about the nutritional hazards.
All said they would eat pop-tarts again.
You need more info on the origin of pop-tarts as they were created in 1965 and future boomers who will end up in community lving will need to reminiscence about them in 2040. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
mikeb
a Cross Country Rider
from Sodom in the North
Date Reviewed: March 7, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | pretty much anything ridable | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$2.00 | | Purchased At: | arguello supermarket, albertsons, safeway, drink liquor on 2nd avenue and balboa | | Strengths: | taste and consistency.
fills you up for a while
takes little effort to prepare (if at all) and eat
gives you that Pop Tart Charge | | Weaknesses: | too much sugar
probably have lots of Trans Fatty Acids
will make your teeth hurt if you eat too many of them, and if you eat to many pop tarts over the long term, your teeth will probably begin to fall right out of your head.
| | Similar Products Used: | safeway house brand--"up tarts, or "safe tarts" or "presto pups", something like that. | | Bike Setup: | very, very irrelevant in this review. this review has nothing to do with bicycles at all. | | Bottom Line: | you're hung over. you stayed up all night long. it's raining outside and you really don't feel like doing anything except lying on the couch and watching football.
but you're hungry!
and you're almost tapped!
and you're LAZY as the day is long!
what are you going to do?
i'll tell you what your're going to do--you are going to march right down to the corner store and buy a box of pop tarts for just under three dollars--or maybe you're lucky enough to live near a safeway store, where they sometimes sell them two for five dollars.
and then you're going to eat.
you're going to lay on that couch and eat a few half-burned pop tarts (because you ALWAYS burn a few of them),then you'll feel sick , but you will surely get up and have some more--possibly the whole box, maybe even two boxes. yes, we americans LOVE OUR SUGAR!
pop tarts have been my salvation at times. if you have wake up hungry and disoriented in a city you don't recognize, the local quickie mart will probably have pop tarts. eating pop tarts frequently probably will have a negative effect on your health, but who cares?!? i ride my bike almost every day and can probably metabolize the nasty residue of these sweet sticky pastries right out of my system in twenty minutes, at the least.
ok, i lied. this review has a little bit to do with bicycles.
the bottom line is that pop tarts are not my ideal energy food while i'm riding and i don't really know why they ended up in MTBR. but i love pop tarts and always will, especially the ones with chocolate on both the outside and the inside. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
david rome
a Cross Country Rider
from syd, aussie
Date Reviewed: March 6, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | manly dam | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$2.00 | | Purchased At: | ask my mom | | Strengths: | tastes so good, a quick and easy breakfast, on the run food. | | Weaknesses: | My mum gets on my back saying i need to have something more healthy | | Similar Products Used: | coca pops, frosties, etc..... | | Bike Setup: | i dont ride i just eat pop tarts | | Bottom Line: | Wake up eat pop tarts, get dressed, brush teeth and off to macdonalds. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Lou
a Weekend Warrior
from Mayberry, Indiana, USA
Date Reviewed: June 11, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$5.00 | | Purchased At: | The Supermarket | | Strengths: | Delicious frosting, with sprinkles on high end models. Filling is so good I would like to dip my balls in it. These things will keep you going long after the strudel eating competition bonks. | | Weaknesses: | Some would say they taste like cardboard; Don't believe the hype. | | Similar Products Used: | Whole milk, Big Macs, The Big and Tasty, Beer, Gravy. | | Bike Setup: | Full Suspension Mongoose (yellow, so you know it's fast) | | Bottom Line: | You can't go wrong with pop-tarts. I eat a box before every race to give me an advantage...I like to think of them as my secret weapon :) Also, I like to carry a Big Mac for in-race fuel; I'll stop a good mile into a race, tear into some McD's, and I am good to go! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Hoosierdaddy
a Cross Country Rider
from Lake Forest Ca.
Date Reviewed: May 7, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | My girlfriends dirt road! | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Purchased At: | Got a "special" deal during L A riots! | | Strengths: | Taste great, more filling. Way more flavors than any cardboard bar. | | Weaknesses: | I've gained like forty pounds since I've started eating them, but gives me more of a workout on those LONG uphills. | | Similar Products Used: | Vegemite and Violet Crumbles. It's an Aussie thing. Don't bother getting any of those cheap knock-off pop tarts, if it doesn't say pop tart don't waste your money... Go big! | | Bike Setup: | 02 Spec. FSR Enduro Expert with some of the bells and whistles. | | Bottom Line: | My buddies (O.K. buddy... I've only got one) laugh at my fat a$$ when I break out the pop tarts, but I get the last laugh. I always pass them (oh him) on the uphills.
I have the coolest solar powered toaster (only 210 grams) a bit bulky. You definitly don't want to land on the thing when you come off your bike!
One more thing... My Camelbak is a 100 ouncer, so I bought 2 50 ounce resevoirs, one for water and one for milk. You gotta have milk with pop tarts! 2% milk is only 720 grams, versus 840 for whole milk. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out! DUH!
I started riding again to "lose" my "beer belly" and gained a "pop tarts belly". Oh well! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
K P
a Weekend Warrior
from Boston
Date Reviewed: March 7, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | NONE | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Mom's cabinet | | Strengths: | convenient - just unwrap and devour | | Weaknesses: | other than they make you fat, there are none | | Similar Products Used: | stuff.. | | Bike Setup: | Do you really care? | | Bottom Line: | Pop Tarts have always and will always ROCK! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
tim finnegan
a Cross Country Rider
from brockton, ma
Date Reviewed: February 22, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | holyoke range | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | my mom's kitchen | | Strengths: | delicious.
they come in a space age shiny pack.
you can fling them at fancy lads eating cardboard strips. | | Weaknesses: | they didn't have as many flavors when i was a wee lad. | | Similar Products Used: | twinkies, oatmeal cream pies, cheesesteak bars, powerfudge | | Bike Setup: | one of those electric scooters for the obese | | Bottom Line: | if you don't eat like a fat pig most of the time, there's no need to stuff those pricey energy bars down your cake hole. pop tarts have provided me with vital energy for pulling all-nighters, hangover recovery, and childhood games of bombardment. too bad cheez-whiz isn't on here. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andrew Kalter
a Racer
from Norwalk, CT
Date Reviewed: January 24, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Great Divide | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | 2.00 | | Strengths: | Cheap, doesn't freeze or melt, tastes good crushed. | | Weaknesses: | Low tech. | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Supercaliber OCLV with Quadra 21R (Antique) | | Bottom Line: | Ate quite a few on my Great Divide MTB. trip from Canada to Mexico. Good high calorie, easy to eat, non meltable snack. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Darrin Marshall
a Downhiller
from NFLD
Date Reviewed: November 30, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Southside Hills | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$1.00 | | Purchased At: | Dominion | | Strengths: | Good when im hungry ripin down a the sickest lines around | | Weaknesses: | More Flava | | Similar Products Used: | Toaster Struddles | | Bike Setup: | DH....RM6 | | Bottom Line: | The bottom line is if your reading this your a nerd..
good food tho.. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Barrie James Meehan
a
from East Dereham
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Pop Tarts | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$3.00 | | Purchased At: | Quick-e-mart | | Strengths: | its good | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bottom Line: | can I have details sent to me about how good they are for you. seeing as I have to write more than 50 words I better say that, these poptart are the bomb.
Nick says they are good as well and I am going to make an advertising scheme for my business assignment, thats why I need details as soon as possible or I am in trouble. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Lincoln
a Cross-Country Rider
from Forest Falls, CA
Date Reviewed: October 20, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Elden Lookout | | Duration Product Used: |
tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: |
Highly resistant to sand. Truth in advertising, this one's the real Nukeproof. | | Weaknesses: |
Saliva dependent | | Similar Products Used: |
Vienna sausage, sardines, Dinty-Moore stew. That's about it. | | Bike Setup: |
Jeremy's old LTS-2, a wac front end, and my improved gravity coeffecient. | | Bottom Line: | The new Moby album's pretty tight, too... and a few words more about anything in particular and this review will have filled out quite nicely......not yet, though.
Oh, the stupider people think you are, the more suprised they're going to be when you kill them. Peace out. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Cranky Old Guy
a Cross-Country Rider
from Alexandria, VA
Date Reviewed: October 19, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
Cheap, tasty, sugar frosting, and oh-so-many flavors! | | Weaknesses: |
Rot your teeth, can make you fat. | | Similar Products Used: |
Cap'n Crunch, Count Chocula, Lucky Charms, Quisp | | Bike Setup: |
Eat'em cold right out of the box. | | Bottom Line: | Ever wonder why little kids have so much energy and exhibit remarkably agressive and insane behavior around the house? Pop Tarts. Yep, Pop Tarts. Cram a few of these little buggers into your pie-hole and you too can be a candidate for Ritalin...or have the stamina to play SuperMario for 24 hours nonstop. On the bike, Pop Tarts rule...enough sugar and carbos to get you cranked up for any ride. Don't taste like extruded cardboard like most energy bars, and you can cram them into a jersey pocket. Drives my roadie friends wild when I laugh at their pathetically tasteless (and expensive) energy gels and chow down on a delicious Brown Sugar & Cinnamon 'Tart in mid-ride. Nutritious? *&@! no! Full of energy? Just ask any bug-eyed six year old, he or she will tell you... | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
rick chittick
a Racer
from littleton, co
Date Reviewed: October 14, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
i can't say. it's a secrud. | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
lots of flavors. lots of carbs. cheaper than any other nutrition bar out there. | | Weaknesses: |
what weakness. this is pop tarts we're talking about. | | Similar Products Used: |
guess. | | Bike Setup: |
my toaster is kind of generic. i wanna get me one of those cool retro chrome ones. | | Bottom Line: | 37 grams of carbs in a single pastry. what's up with that? why bother spending a buck fifty each for power bars/clif bars/what have you. even bicycling magazine gave them kudos in their october 99 issue. they are the bomb, dude. | | Overall Rating: |
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