Friday, December 09, 2005

Another oil crisis?

This could be serious as it involves something almost as important as fuel, since it is sort of fuel.

Fuel for your body - lol

As a Pop Tart fan (brown sugar cinnamon) I read with interest the problems Kellog was having finding low linolenic soybeans to make the soy oil they would prefer to use to reduce transfat in some of their products. One of them being Pop Tarts.

Of course this leads to the whole why is this even necessary. Pop Tarts were not meant to be a health food bar and frankly the low-fat versions of Pop Tarts that I've tried have not been good when compared with the original product. Some people may prefer low fat over taste but to me? Don't mess with the taste of my Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tart (with frosting but without if necessary) hot out of the toaster and given a light coating of butter, (a little more butter if there is no frosting)

Yes, I use real butter for some things, I also used a margarine spread with olive oil.

I predict just like the flop of the South Beach Diet/Atkins Food products alot of this "low fat/low transfat" hype will disappear. In the end taste matters and anyone that thinks making Pop Tarts low fat is going to help solve obesity needs to realize it's not the Pop Tart that makes you fat.

:-)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Brown sugar cinnamon Pop Tarts of either frosting persuasion are indeed fantastic, but I prefer mine unfrosted.

That is all.

Scott G said...

I like the chocolate covered fudge ones, but I am a health nut.

Unknown said...

That's a house favorite, I can't eat alot of chocolate, I'm allergic to it. The girls also like the chocolate one with the vanilla creme too

:-)

Hooda Thunkit (Dave Zawodny) said...

I don't eat Pop Tarts but I am 100% behind your right to eat and butter them.

I don't use much butter, but only butter will do when taste is important.

I have relatives that call that "stuff" in a squeeze bottle butter.
Yes, they are clueless and wonder why I never eat certain foods at their house, stuff that needs to be buttered...