I had "the talk" with my wife last night...
Sitting down to watch the latest podcast episode I asked her in a comparison between Pop-Tarts and Toaster Strudels which was better.
I've always understood the comparison. Pop-Tarts are reliably, well, pop-tarts. You know what you are going to get, and you get it. Toaster Strudels? Those are a devils bargain. I have never had a Toaster Strudel experience I have not been disappointed in. Deep in my memory I can vividly recall spending the night at my video-game friend Chris's house and waking to have Toaster Strudels for breakfast. My family was not the Strudel sort, they felt high-class and beyond what my parents would normally spend for a treat. I waited in eager anticipation for my first taste of this exotic "forbidden fruit," for a taste of a treat beyond my means. While I was expecting delicious, flakey and buttery crust, hand glazed (by my own hand!), wrapped delicately around warmed fruit filling, instead, the slightly soggy, lukewarm and limp Strudel met my tastebuds. I learned not to trust that day, marketing had deceived me. The comparison Kyle is making I would also intuitively make, I never questioned it...and I assumed my wife would be in solidarity with me. "She is a woman with good sense and wisdom, of course she understands this comparison!" I thought to myself.
I was horribly mistaken. Upon my questioning my wife not only admitted to handily preferring a Strudel...she also added them to our grocery list for the next time we go shopping. What have I wrought? I hastily, and successfully, petitioned for Pop-Tarts to be added to the list as well, to bring some sort of cosmic balance to our home. I will attempt those nasty looking pretzel pop-tarts Jones tweeted about the other day.
Really though: I never thought anything of the Pop-Tart vs. Strudel segment, and I continually surprised by how many people like/prefer Toaster Strudels.
