Why Are Pop-Tarts?
Okay, so as promised in that last article — you know, the one where I said I was going to try randomly writing about whatever and see what happens — I’m going ahead and writing on a random topic.
Problem was, I hit a stupid kind of writers’ block right off the bat. I know I said I’d probably write about socks first, but I couldn’t do that because as my wife pointed out to me, I already wrote about a “first” topic, and that topic was the article where I talked about writing about whatever. So I couldn’t make socks my first topic, as a first topic already existed … and I also couldn’t bring myself to demote it to #2 as that just felt cheap.
So I did what I do, and reached out to my Twitter community for ideas. On top of that, I decided I’d livestream the typing of this thing on Twitch. Who knows if anyone will watch. That’s an entirely different topic, and also one I claimed I didn’t care about in the last post. But obviously, I lied.
Anyway, someone recommended I write about Pop-Tarts. So, here we are.
I think the biggest question I have about pop-tarts is why they are even called what they are. But when I think about it now, it’s pretty obvious. They’re little pastries, kind of like “tarts,” that you put into a toaster and then when they’re done cooking, they “pop” out of the toaster.
