I love poptarts and miss them immensely. I haven't eaten them in ~20 years (they've gelatin in them). Literally nobody wants to step up and make decent vegan Poptarts. Tesco used to sell a brand (then stopped) ALDI sold their own poptart for a while (which was vegan but they kinda sucked) they stopped.... I know they're "disgusting" and "artificial" but sometimes that's exactly what I want lol.
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Y'all, Poptarts were always garbage in a mylar pouch, only made popular by marketing.
The fact that the Toaster Strudel exists is evidence that pop tarts are a kludge of a bastardization of a good thing, so far removed from the real deal, as to be indistinguishable from it. They started enshittified, and only had one way to go from there.
I don't know about knock off brands but there were such better options for toaster pastries since the 90's. So much so one of my kids tried a pop tart at some point and thought there disgusting. Overly sweet on a cardboard cracker.
I think they have always been bad. All the brand bame stuff is usually bad. You just gotta look for the good stuff.
I can't believe they've never done double-frosted Pop Tarts. It's sitting RIGHT THERE. It's so obvious!
Pop tarts have always sucked.
Toaster Strudels is where its at.
At this point the only brand name stuff that's truly ahead is soda 😭
Nope. Store brands are better IMO and half the price.
Yeah maybe it's just Walmart specifically that shits the bed :P
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That's too bad. Recently I've been thinking of picking some up again. They taste good burnt (to me). Or I should say they used to, I guess...