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Coming Soon: Pretzel Pop-Tarts & Froot Loop Pop-Tarts

Pretzel Pop-Tarts Brown Sugar Cinnamon & Chocolate

Photo via Candy Hunting

I’m sure you’re all familiar with the phrase “jumping the shark” by this point. You know, major turning points in the absurdity of any given property over time. The final season of Scrubs. The 3D television. The Renaissance. Many such cases.

And it seems even breakfast products in the best couple years have been iteratively cranking the the dubious complexity dial on their flavoring up to 100(g of sugar or degrees of abstraction). For cereal, this was less of a shark jumping than a sour patching, as this year’s gut-warpingly weird Sour Patch Kids Cereal eroded a hole in the proverbial stomach lining of possibility, allowing and normalizing the entrance of other cereal mutations—for better or worse.

Pop-Tarts, on the other hand, seemed to go off the deep end—right into the uncanny crumb catcher—earlier, with Maple Bacon Pop-Tarts heralding many other largely gimmicky Tarts.

Thankfully, Pop-Tarts’ latest conceptual sneak peeks are far more domesticated in their wildness than their second latest—I was worried we’d too-quickly evolve from Scanning our Tarts to Embedding Our Holo-Tarts With Genetic Seasoning (for the last Valentine’s Day before the Pastry Singularity.

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Review: Cookies & Crème Pop-Tarts Cereal

Kellogg's Cookies & Creme Pop-Tarts Cereal Review Box

Look, I know, deep down, that I am but a flake fragment stuck between two cogs within the grand corporate cereal machine, but can’t a crumb dream of being a marbit?

By this I mean: I seriously doubt anything I’ve written on this website has ever influenced a cerealsmith’s grand designs—though if Blueberry Muffin Toasters hits shelves, I will claim peripheral clout by right of Justinian association. But in my imagination, I like to pretend that something like Cookies & Crème Pop-Tarts Cereal was made with a picture of me on an easel, connected with string to a bran map of all my favorite flavor descriptors.

Yes, that sounds narcissistic, but my birthday is next week, so give me a break.
And yes, I know, unsubtly mentioning my upcoming birthday isn’t much better.

C’mon though, a merger of Oreo O’s and Pop-Tarts? Sure, they could’ve picked any of my more-obscure, all-time favorite Pop-Tarts (Milk Chocolate Graham, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, or Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal Delight), but the only cereals more quintessentially dan g. would be a PB&J Waffle Crisp or Gingerbread Golden Grahams!

Ahem, Post and General Mills? Next week, remember? You’re not invited to my all-night laser tag lock-in without presents.

Okay, enough about me: let’s write about these little sandwich cookie pillows entirely in the second and third persons. Continue reading

Review: Red, White & Blueberry Pop-Tarts

Kellogg's Frosted Red, White & Blueberry Pop-Tarts Review Box

Listen, when the slogan tells you to “save big money at Menards,” there’s an invisible asterisk attached that reads “if you’re willing to wait two full months per 60¢ saved.”

For those confused by most of that (rather than just some of it): Menards is a midwestern hardware store comparable to Home Depot or Lowe’s—if you add a twang of ope-fulness. When news of Red, White & Blueberry Pop-Tarts broke in mid-May, I immediately started looking for a place to buy them. You know, so I could get them in time for Independence Day.

Both wonderfully and strangely, the only place I could find them was on Menards’ website—what’s more patriotic than discount lumber, I guess?—and with a 60¢ mail-in rebate to make the box cost me under $1.50. Sounds like an American Dream come true, right?

Well, 48 automated Menards customer service emails later, I learned that not only were the Pop-Tarts on a seemingly infinite backorder, but I’m also probably the only person to buy them from the site. The page where I bought them has been deleted, and they finally arrived conspicuously in a package better secured than Fort Knox’s solid-gold diary.

So while the actual Fourth of July is weeks behind us, perhaps we can rechristen this occasion: Happy Menardian Solstice, everyone! Who wants fireworks? Continue reading

News: Spidey Berry Pop-Tarts Are Swinging Into Stores!


Spider-Man Far From Home Spidey Berry Pop-Tarts

♪ Spidey Berry, Spidey Berry, likely made by some dude named Gary. 
Filled with goo, and maybe fruit; this blogger’s in, hot pursuit.
Look out, here comes the Spidey Berry! ♪

Just like Marvel’s sequel-happy universe, the Spider-Man Pop-Tart canon just keeps expanding. First we saw the 2002, Tobey Maguire-era Spidey-Berry Pop-Tarts, which featured a Wildberry filling perfect for a post-Pizza Time dessert. Then for 2012’s Amazing Spider-Man movie, we got YUM-AZING Vanilla. Now as Spider-Man: Far From Home is hitting theaters, Kellogg’s is rebooting Spidey-Berry into a hyphen-less version that trades the Wildberry for a comparatively less interesting Raspberry filling.

(Is Raspberry anyone’s favorite Pop-Tart? If so, you may have been bitten by a radioactively malevolent Raspberry Pi AI.)

What is more interesting is the printed icing, which can apparently be scanned through you phone to unlock an “online adventure,” hopefully one worthy of Mysterio’s own illusions. My excitement over this features stems entirely from the box’s prompt to “SCAN YOUR TART,” a three-word phrase that, on its own, has definitely never been written before, but which also references a single Pop-Tart as a Tart, something I’d never expect from a big, trademark-consistency-protecting company like Kellogg’s.

So while there’s nothing flavorfully new about Spidey Berry Pop-Tarts, already available online and in stores, the fact that breakfast is now a digital commodity means that we’re one step closer to summoning holographic monsters by sliding a Pop-Tart into a Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Disk.

Spooned & Spotted: Cookies & Crème Pop-Tarts Cereal

Cookies & Creme Krave Cereal Box

Do you hear that? Those foreboding rumbling of a tectonic plate sandwiched between two others, heralding the beginning of something…cataclysmic?

It’s an anomaly in Earth’s chocolate cookie crust, and we haven’t felt one of this magnitude since the great Oreo Cheesequake that turned countless communities upside down—while leaving them dizzyingly unable to fall.

Yes, we seem to be reaching critically crème-y mass, with newly spotted Cookies & Crème Pop-Tarts Cereal being the third cereal of its Oreo-flavored kind to arrive this past month. While I thought the Oreo craze peaked two years ago with the olfactory onslaught of perhaps unnecessarily zany cookie flavors, from Mississippi Mud Pie to the Swedish Fish who for some reason swim in it.

But now that Nabisco’s mad science has tempered to a sort of eccentric performance art, with more reasonable flavors like Latte Thins and Rocky Road, it feels high time for the famous cookie’s signature flavor to return to its black & white simplicity, once again populating both owned brand and imitator products all across the grocery store. Spotted by @m_huddy at Woodman’s (thanks!), Cookies & Crème Pop-Tarts Cereal brings a two-toned filling (a la S’Mores Krave) to a fascinatingly chip-studded P-TC shell.

While I am more excited for C&C Pop-Tarts Cereal, I am close to predicting it dead in the skim-diluted water. Why? Because it feels like a direct chaser to Cookies ‘n’ Creme Fillows, which were so good (and dense!) that I have serious doubts the comparatively welterweight anatomy of Pop-Tarts Cereal will even be able to touch gloves with General Mills’ game-changing, choco-icing champion.

Perhaps I’ll just have to pit them head to head, M&M’s style. Don’t blame me, Pop-Tarts, it’s a natural cereal phenomenon: survival of the crème-swollen fattest.

News: Red, White & Blueberry Pop-Tarts are Here!

Kellogg's New Red White & Blueberry Pop-Tarts Box

What does America taste like? It seems Pop-Tarts is having a tough time figuring it out.

They’ve tried the obvious. They’ve tried to distill the essence of our diets. And they’ve tried two other Red, White & ___ flavors before ditching the generic Berry and misplaced Cherry (which works neither chromatically nor rhythmically) for Blueberry.

Red, White & Blueberry Pop-Tarts may make more sense than its previous flagged flavors, though I do wish they’d get right to the heartland of America and make Superman Ice Cream Pop-Tart—they already have DC’s blessing!

Proudly baked in the USA* without oxford (or any) commas, Red ⭑ White & Blueberry Pop-Tarts have already been spotted at Market Basket and Jewel Osco stores (with complete nutrition info), according to The Impulsive Buy. But in keeping with the recent tradition of weird places to buy breakfast products, you can pick up a box of RW&B Pop-Tarts from…Menards?…and get a $0.21 mail-in rebate to boot!

Think of all the penny whistles and MoonPies you could buy with that!

If you have any new breakfast news of your own to wave proudly, hoist it on over to our Submissions page. If I don’t put it on this blog, I’ll at least cram it in my toaster.

*Google seems to think all Pop-Tarts are made domestically, and there is indeed a Pop-Tarts factory not far from me.

Review (x2): Confetti Cupcake & Chocolate Cupcake Pop-Tarts

Kellogg's Chocolate Cupcake Pop-Tarts Review Box

Look, I have a whipped cream firehose right here, and the safety’s off.
So I’m gonna ask you one more time: where’s Captain Cupcake?

It’s really the only explanation: the squiggle-stached mascot behind Hostess Cupcakes, known for his hulking naval circumference and nautical nonsense, hasn’t been seen in action for years. Many theorized that he, along with the other obscure sideshow snack cakes, were disappeared out of existence by the powerful Fruit Pie the Magician, whose grand illusion managed to rewrite our dark timeline and save Hostess from bankruptcy.

But with the release of these new conveniently frosted Chocolate Cupcake Pop-Tarts, the truth is clear. Captain Cupcake, bitter about his fudgy offspring not getting their own Hostess Cereal (this was C. Cupcake’s one chance to return fire against Cap’n Crunch!), defected and sold trade secrets to Kellogg’s. Now we can only assume that he’s hiding out in the molded wreckage of an abandoned Hostess Bakery Thrift Outlet.

If he happens to reappear under a new diet alias—with a slimmer shape due to months spent lifting stale Wonderbread pallets—I hope the feds book this “Admiral Aspartame” instantly.  Continue reading

News: Kellogg’s Simply Pop-Tarts Harvest Strawberry

Kellogg's Simply Pop-Tarts Harvest Strawberry Box

How much time has to go by before a News post becomes an Overdue post?

At least I’m not alone: the existence of Harvest Strawberry-flavored “Simply” Pop-Tarts has apparently gone under the radar of every snack food journalist from the information super highway to the dusty backroads of the Wild Wildberry West.

And for good reason: the timeline behind these GMO-free Pop-Tarts is a little cloudy. Web searches reveal that they’ve been mentioned in early 2018, when it seems they were exclusive to school lunch programs, much like General Mills’ neufchatel-filled cereal bars. But I was able to date their current, Costco-exclusive 32-pack debut back to January of this year, thanks to a Kellogg’s newsletter for health and wellness professionals.

The irony here is that the nutrition facts for Simply Pop-Tarts are just as, if not more dietarily damning than a normal Strawberry Pop-Tart, with more saturated fat per pastry. But hey: at least it has half a gram more of dietary fiber and no green sprinkles!

No word on whether these will taste dramatically different than normal Strawberry Pop-Tarts—I expect to taste that harvest, whether it’s a touch of earthy dirt or the metallic sheen of an International Harvester combine—but without a Costco membership, I’ll ask that if you’ve tried them, leave a comment below. In the mean time, I’ll have to woo my grandma into xeroxing her membership card.

Or just try Google Express.