Pop-Tart label to be serialized under new HarperCollins imprint
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Oh come on people... it's like Moby Dick for the Twitter Age. Anyone?
No? Fine. I'll start.
"It was the best of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil; it was the worst of partially hydrogentated vegetable oil..."
Okay, so it's a cheap store brand, purchased - I will add in my defense - only because the ninth-grader has been buying them for lunch at about a 250 percent mark-up. (You can not lose money on the high school Pop-Tart franchise at any price.) So I had the economically savvy - if nutritionally deficient - idea that he could bring them from home instead at ENORMOUS SAVINGS.
Of course you already know how this has worked out...
No, the stack of Toasty Taster Pastry Rectangle wrappers is behind the couch in the living room. The lesson here being: 1. In a house full of children old enough to open cabinets by themselves, all snacks will be consumed within a 50-foot radius of where they are stored.
2. The school Pop-Tart franchise continues to sell your child the same number of Pop-Tarts as before.
It's a win-win for the Pop-Tart industry. This is what economists refer to as "frosting the market."
You have known this for years -- buy a snack in bulk at Costco and they will simply eat more of it. So you persist in repeating the same ineffective behaviors. It's what economists refer to as "unlearned obsolescence."
And yet, the consumer-oriented mass media - and I am speaking here of the monthly print variety - continues to foist such hopeless cost-cutting schemes upon us...
Oh come on people... it's like Moby Dick for the Twitter Age. Anyone?
No? Fine. I'll start.
"It was the best of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil; it was the worst of partially hydrogentated vegetable oil..."
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | November 05, 2009 at 10:41 AM
I'm not a user.
Posted by: Audubon Ron | November 05, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Look, lady. You may be able to push Pop-Tart knock-offs on your kids, but not on me.
This box looks suspiciously like 'Toaster Tastys' to me.
Posted by: Jess | November 08, 2009 at 05:35 AM
Okay, so it's a cheap store brand, purchased - I will add in my defense - only because the ninth-grader has been buying them for lunch at about a 250 percent mark-up. (You can not lose money on the high school Pop-Tart franchise at any price.) So I had the economically savvy - if nutritionally deficient - idea that he could bring them from home instead at ENORMOUS SAVINGS.
Of course you already know how this has worked out...
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | November 08, 2009 at 08:48 AM
**And by "high school Pop-Tart franchise" I mean the sale of any rectangularly-shaped, pastry-like snack product.
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | November 08, 2009 at 08:51 AM
No doubt there's a stack of Toaster Tastys in the bottom of his locker.
Bring lunch from home?
Geesh.
Posted by: Jess | November 08, 2009 at 11:51 AM
No, the stack of Toasty Taster Pastry Rectangle wrappers is behind the couch in the living room. The lesson here being: 1. In a house full of children old enough to open cabinets by themselves, all snacks will be consumed within a 50-foot radius of where they are stored.
2. The school Pop-Tart franchise continues to sell your child the same number of Pop-Tarts as before.
It's a win-win for the Pop-Tart industry. This is what economists refer to as "frosting the market."
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | November 08, 2009 at 01:31 PM
Duly noted.
Posted by: Jess | November 09, 2009 at 03:04 AM
You have known this for years -- buy a snack in bulk at Costco and they will simply eat more of it. So you persist in repeating the same ineffective behaviors. It's what economists refer to as "unlearned obsolescence."
Posted by: Executive Suburbanite | November 10, 2009 at 07:26 AM
And yet, the consumer-oriented mass media - and I am speaking here of the monthly print variety - continues to foist such hopeless cost-cutting schemes upon us...
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | November 10, 2009 at 08:48 AM