Tuples and Attributes

I hadn’t had a pop-tart in decades up until a few months ago when I ran across a big box of them at Sam’s Club. They are, of course, a quintessential ‘junk food’, but they’re good-tasting empty calories and easy for mom to toast.

I remember my Nana fixing brown-sugar cinnamon pop-tarts for us when they first came out back in the 1960s. They weren’t frosted back then and Nana slathered them with butter before serving them. They were awesome!

But apparently there is a large controversy in the pop-tart universe about whether this is appropriate or not; some people feel it is blasphemy to butter this already fatty, sugary treat and others feel that slathering butter on just makes a decadent treat even better. This was brought out into the open when a character in the “Family Guy” cartoon sang a song about buttering his treat.

These days most pop-tarts come with frosting and are available in many flavors. I’ve never tried any other than the brown-sugar cinnamon ones and personally, I don’t see the need for frosting on them, but I take what I can get. And I was all ready to weigh in on the side of those supporting the “better with butter” option when I found out they were buttering the FROSTED side!

No, no, a thousand times NO. You should butter the pastry side, not the frosted side! The butter simply slides off the frosting (in spite of the few slashes in it) and is lost. The ONLY proper method is to butter the pastry side. The butter still soaks in to the pastry and, as the pastry side is a bit concave, can pool there without running off the sides.

I hope if you had any strong feelings about this debate, I have now shown you the only proper side to take!