Eater National : The National Restaurant, Bar, and Nightlife Blog. The Food Section - Food News, Recipes, and More. The 1 Million Pop-Tart Giveaway Is an Atrocity - Food Media. Let's start with the following premise: Pop-Tarts are not actually food. They are only food in the same way that McDonald's fries or an Oreo cookie is food, which is to say they're sugar-laden hyperprocessed junk that, when overconsumed, puts you on a path to an early grave. And the very nature of this product is that it will be overconsumed. Eat a pack of Starburst with some Mountain Dew and then try to eat an apple—you can't. The apple tastes like bland garbage compared to the artificial sugar bombs we drop on our palates every day. The more of these you eat and drink, the more that regular food tastes washed out and forgettable. According to the Quad City Times, most of the Pop-Tarts presented to the contest's runner-up—who gets to distribute 100,000 of the toaster sweets—are not merely being handed to people on the street; they're actually going to food banks and to soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now: the obvious backlash. Person #2: This is fascism! 5 Kitchen Novelties You Don’t Yet Know You Need - Food Media. My wife and I have arrived at the point where we literally need fewer things in the kitchen, not more. Gadgets pour forth from the drawers. Servingware clutters the cupboards and buffet. We have (nonmatching, mind you) place settings for 50, and seating for 22 max. Well, 25 if you use the living room coffee table. And yet: There are some crazy things out there that may make the Christmas list, despite all countervailing wisdom. Two, Two, Two Pies in One! Serve Ice Cream in Sugar Cookie BowlsThe not-entirely-useful Ice Cream Cookie Bowl Pan becomes slightly more useful and a hell of a lot more goofily charming when you invert it and use it to pump out Sugar Cookie Bowls. Cute Mugs for the Seasonal ApocalypseHalloween Cauldron Mugs work like mugs but look like tiny cauldrons!
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