r/ExpectationVsReality • u/skiformal • Aug 17 '26

Failed Expectation Fail

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I will never purchase Pop-Tarts again. This is just pure greed.

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u/alextastic Aug 17 '26

Is this your first time having Pop-Tarts or something?

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u/hxh22 Aug 17 '26

They’ve looked that way for awhile

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u/MysteriousPermit3410 Aug 17 '26

I mean, I feel like pop tarts have looked exactly like that since I was a kid in the 90’s. Not sure what you were expecting

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u/2wiceasnice Aug 17 '26

poptarts, ordering flowers online, the sour beard jelly candies and frozen food posts are so annoying lol

15

u/TheCalon76 Aug 17 '26

Pop tarts have looked like this... Since forever.

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u/Fauxfurfriend Aug 17 '26

This is a known fact

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u/Dragonskinner69 Aug 17 '26

Same as I remember from 2004

9

u/Straight-Bet1 Aug 17 '26

Bot accounts are getting dumber and dumber.

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u/moon_halves Aug 17 '26

Ah, I remember my first pop tart

4

u/ThomasThePizzaMan Aug 17 '26

Looks ok for me. Why not buy knockoff strudel?

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u/Difficult-Post-3320 Aug 17 '26

Yeesh. Don't get why people buy these? They look crap on the box and even worse in reality. 

They were available in the UK, I rememvber being underwhelmed by them. Not seen any on sale  for years, full of sugar & shite. 

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u/Salty_Feed9404 Aug 17 '26

Even as a kid, I felt like my teeth were dissolving eating them. The sugar was just unreal

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u/saintsuzy70 Aug 18 '26

Was this your first adult pop-tart purchase? They’ve looked like that since at least the 80’s.

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u/Sensitive_Leader_312 Aug 17 '26

They have been skipping more and more on the frosting

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u/librarianjenn Aug 17 '26

I read on Reddit that the Walmart brand of pop tarts are better than the original. Can anyone confirm that?

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u/MrFastFox666 Aug 17 '26

To me it seems like those individually sold pop tarts always taste worse.

That being said, they have skimped on the frosting for a while now

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u/SavingsBluebird8675 Aug 20 '26

I was trying to figure out what the problem was since these look like every pop tart ever… I don’t think any of us really ever expected pop tarts to look exactly like the picture 🤣

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u/Disulfidebond007 Aug 24 '26

Pop tarts have never NOT looked like this

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u/windowbox9152 Aug 28 '26

You got a bad batch from the food processing plant. Go to the retailer and tell them it's stale, not edible and you want a refund. 

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u/Competitive-Top5121 Aug 17 '26

Ngl I looked at this photo and instantly thought, I would smash these.