Pop-Tarts have never looked so unhealthy
I couldn’t locate a video of the new Pop-Tarts ad, but I’m sure you know the one I mean. It’s a sequel to their creepy tap dancing cartoon kid commercial, but this time a whole group of kids has assembled for a day of summer fun. And by summer fun, I mean a pile of fattening treats made with pop-tarts. The mother designs a diabolical series of desserts including the following: pop-tart ice cream sandwiches (at least she breaks one tart in half and doesn’t try to give the kids two at a time), bowls of ice cream with pop tarts sticking out of them, and the weirdest of all, pop tarts on a stick. This I have never heard of, and it sounds neither appetizing nor functional.
I was already annoyed when Pop-Tarts started covering all of their toaster-ready treats with frosting and sprinkles. Yuck! I prefer mine plain. The only varieties that benefit from that treatment are the super-sweet ones like S’mores. But anyway, they were unhealthy enough covered in all that gross frosting, and now the company thinks a good way to combat the childhood obesity epidemic is to bury their already sugary product in ice cream? It’s sick. If I had a kid I wouldn’t let them have nary not a Pop-Tart (I know that’s bad grammar, I just like saying it that way).
Update: While continuing to look for that crappy new ad, I came across this awesome Pop-Tarts Rap, made by some kid named Mike. It’s gold! It even points out that if you don’t like Pop-Tarts, you’re most likely a fart.