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I read about the history of pop tarts while enjoying my artisanal pop tart earlier. Did you know that in 2001 the United States military dropped 2.4 million pop tarts over Afghanistan? During their invasion, the U.S. also wanted to win over hearts and minds. Millions of Afghans were going hungry, so the Wornick Company - a long-time military supplier - was contracted to create 2,200 calorie food rations. These HDRs (human daily rations, as they’re called) were dropped from high altitude in sealed bags. 90% of the sealed bags burst before they reached the ground. Also, the bags were originally yellow which was unfortunately the same color as unexploded cluster bomb munitions. So they later changed the bags for the HDRs to pink. It is said the pop tarts air drop had very little effect on changing sentiment among Afghans. The creator of pop tarts, Bill Post, was an army veteran who served in occupied Japan after the end of WWII. The license plate on his car said “POPTART.” Post passed away last year at the age of 96. That year, Netflix released a film directed by Jerry Seinfeld about the creation story of pop tarts. By the way, it’s actually spelled “Pop-Tarts” but I can’t bring myself to write it like this.

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the bakery I work at, we make homemade poptarts

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Now Assistant #1 really wants a pop tart.

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Whats the filling in your artisanal poptart?

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I wouldn’t have guessed that about pop-tarts specially considering I have only tried it once and never looked at it again. The labubu and the ugly cute commerce trend in the US makes me not surprised. Not sure if the rumors of keeping American positive as a US global commerce strategy for sth ominous coming is true.

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I think it's funny that they would invade Afghanistan and still air drop pop tarts so they could win their hearts over. Very funny.

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they look delicious. never has one..

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I wonder how one tastes

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@cameron did you eat the ration version of it?? how does it taste compared to regular pop tarts

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Pop tartsss🥹🩷

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Meanwhile the pop tart...🥹🌟

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Miam miam and great reading

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I think the Afghans held the Americans responsible for their hunger. At that point, no act of benevolence will really put them in a good mood.

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