I Try Frosted Choco Orange Pop Tarts

On Sunday July 27th, I published a post noting that Kellogg's was set to bring out a Frosted Choco Orange version of their Pop Tarts toaster pastries. 

At the time of writing, boxes were available from a couple of supermarkets with more stores set to have them from September.

Well, check your calendars. September has struck. Asda now has them!

And so do I after buying myself a box.

In today's post, I'm going to try this new flavour. However, I am going to do so by eating three pastries across a few days using a trio of methods. I hope to find out which is the best approach to eat this particular version of Pop Tarts.

My Way
As I've written in the past, I was first introduced to Kellogg's Pop Tarts before they reached the UK shores. My American relatives used to have them for breakfast, so I had them back during my two visits to Germany during the 1980s. We always had them from a toaster, so that's how I prefer them.

This Frosted Choco Orange flavour was very nice warmed up. Actually, I liked it as soon as the smell of it struck me as it was warming up inside my toaster. It 100% made me think of Christmas, which is - I suppose - a good thing considering this flavour, based on the packaging, seems to be here for the festive period.

So - yes - I thoroughly enjoyed this warm hot orange chocolate flavour from this version of the pastry item.

The Frozen Way
I had a look through previous posts and I cannot find anything about me trying a Pop Tart from the freezer. I could have sworn I wrote about it, so I surmise I must have spoken with Vicki about doing so. More about Vick and Pop Tarts in a moment.

Anyway, somewhere over the past few years, I bought Pop Tarts from the US and they recommended eating them fresh out of a freezer. I thought it was a mad idea (and one I had never contemplated before). I thought I would repeat the idea with the latest edition.

The inside of the product had obviously hardened up after being in the freezer for almost a day. Therefore, it tasted like eating a cool piece of chocolate orange flavoured fudge. Slightly. 

I have actually tasted chocolate orange fudge back when I was a child, staying with my relative in west Wales. There was a souvenir shop on the way to the park where we walked their dogs. In the window were rows-upon-rows of different coloured bricks of fudge. One of the selections which took my fancy had dual layers of orange and chocolate. 

Even after all these years, I think back at how much I enjoyed sampling all the different flavours from that shop. 

This Pop Tart, due to how hardened its insides had become, brought back a nostalgic clamouring for a trip to the seaside. Ironic that something made for Christmas had me dreaming about summertime.

Vicki's Way
I've already explained that I had been old school when it comes to Pop Tarts. The only way I had ever tried them, until a few years ago, was from warming the pastries in a toaster.

Well - during one of the many conversations I had with Vick about American foods - she told me she liked eating Pop Tarts straight out of their foil wrapper. I thought she was nuts to eat them in that manner because, well - because I've already explained: I'm old school.

On Monday August 24th 2020, I wrote a post as I sampled eating a Pop Tart in the way Vicki enjoyed them. I was honest with my assessment stating that, even though I still preferred eating Pop Tarts from a toaster, my eyes had been opened to accepting it was possible to eat, and enjoy, Pop Tarts without toasting (and obviously - freezing!) them.

I closed the post by writing 'would I eat them like this again? Probably, but I won't do it regularly'. And I kept to my word because I have occasionally eaten Pop Tarts straight out of the box.

And I'm going to do so again, LIVE..

..or as live as I can in a blog post.

Here goes:

Well, I have to admit - for a peculiar reason, it seemed like this Pop Tart had more flavour to it than the other two.  Therefore, that's a positive.

Even after all these years, and despite me accepting it's possible to eat a Pop Tart straight from the wrapper, it still seems a bit wrong even though I did enjoy this one due to how strong the taste was to my palate. 

The Winning Way

After trying three of these special edition Pop Tarts, I now have the task of deciding which method was the best for this particular flavour.

Vicki's way absolutely was the one which brought the most flavour. I don't know why that is, but that's how it seemed. I cannot escape that point while contemplating which technique was the best. 

But, with that said - I have to go with the frozen method. Not just because it triggered a childhood memory. I found the inside being tougher the most appealing especially when the fudge texture melted in my mouth as I took bites.

The toaster approach - also known as 'My Way' for this tasting experiment - comes in third. It would have been joint-second if not for the stronger taste of chocolate orange in the one eaten at room temperature. 

That's not to say I didn't taste the chocolate orange from the warm Pop Tart. It's just that it seemed like I appreciated the scent more as it was warming up rather than from when it was meant to matter - as I ate it.

Frozen is the way to go for these ones. If you think about it, this actually works considering the box has snow falling from the sky.