If you eat ice cream with a fork, Gary Gulman knows you so well.
pop tarts
Friends of the Sporkful Dennis and Cindy recently acquired a box of Pumpkin Pie Pop-Tarts for testing purposes, a "limited edition" flavor that we think just might be a direct response to one of our Pop-Tart experiments in one of our recent Slate videos. The timing was perfect, since we're in the midst of a highly pumpkinized period of Sporkful. My taste test
http://www.slatev.com/media/swfs/SlateGroupPlayer.swf MSNBC host Rachel Maddow will be on The Sporkful in a couple weeks talking cocktails, but ahead of that, someone at her office appears to be conducting Sporkful-style Pop-Tart experiments, with alarming results. TVNewser reports that a Pop-Tart caught fire in the microwave during Monday night's show, setting off fire bells at 30 Rock. TVNewser is an excellent media blog,
Dennis in Tucson, Arizona noticed these "limited edition" Pop-Tarts. Could their Frosted Pumpkin Pie flavor have been inspired by (stolen from?) our fan-inspired creation in our latest Slate video? No way to know for sure. While the official Pop-Tarts version may be more portable, ours is clearly more delicious. /mark
We make Pop-Tarts even more magical, by using them to make a BLT, a pie, and a Chinese dish which turns out quite horribly. But the first two are good, really!
As you can tell from our latest Slate video, we love taking new foods designed by "experts" and improving on them. A new place called Pop-Tarts World has opened in Times Square, and they're featuring some noteworthy menu items... The menu includes the Fluffer Butter, marshmallow spread sandwiched between two Pop-Tarts frosted fudge pastries; the Sticky Cinna Munchies, cinnamon rolls topped