Toaster Strudel vs. Pop Tarts

 I think toaster strudels are doing a little bit of over advertizing. Now I’m no marketing expert, for that you would have to talk to my brother, but I think their ads against pop tarts are a bad idea. They start off by showing what clearly looks exactly like a pop tart and calling an other breakfast pastry or fruit pastry or something. Then they inject fruit goo into the middle which plumps it up a bit, and wrap it all up in flaky doughy pastry. First, if you actually took a pop tart, then added gooey goodness to the middle and wrapped it all up, I would think that deserved a taste. That, however is not what a toaster strudel is. A toaster strudel is everything they say it is, without the original pop tart looking thing. It is gooey middle with flaky pastry outside and frosting to top it. If we take a second to think about this, a pop tart and a toaster strudel, if they are even in the same family, are on opposite sides of each other. A pop tart has a compressed, packed dough outside with a (more or less) solid filling, and an already hardened icing top. Toaster strudels have a light, airy pastry outside with a gooey liquid center, and a fresh icing top. They are so different, my desire for each of these is not related whatsoever to my desire for the other. But now that I think about it, they probably would make a pretty good breakfast if they were combined…

So Scott Thought.