{"id":19554,"date":"2016-01-19T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=19554"},"modified":"2023-08-12T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T20:49:35","slug":"review-kelloggs-limited-edition-frosted-maple-bacon-pop-tarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/19\/review-kelloggs-limited-edition-frosted-maple-bacon-pop-tarts\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Kellogg’s Limited Edition Frosted Maple Bacon Pop-Tarts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kellogg's<\/a><\/p>\n

If I told a younger you that \u201cbacon overkill\u201d would become a thing, you\u2019d probably cry and scream \u201cStranger Danger\u201d because some old weirdo was talking to you about breakfast meats. Still, I can\u2019t help but wonder if we\u2019re getting too much bacon<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Too much bacon?! Surely, I jest.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, bacon is amazing. But when did we all become the dog from the Beggin’ Strips commercials<\/a>? Why does it seem like Big Bacon is trying to take over our lives? <\/p>\n

I guess its bacon\u2019s world and we\u2019re all just living in it. <\/p>\n

Mini rant aside, I was excited to try Frosted Maple Bacon Pop-Tarts. I knew I had to have them the second I saw them because I\u2019m part of the problem.<\/p>\n

After opening the pouch I was met with a welcome pancake smell. Each pastry has the standard white frosting with brown flecks that I assume are bacon flavored. I\u2019ll get back to that in a moment. The filling itself has a nice maple scent and an appropriate light brown coloring.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m normally an \u201ceat ’em right out of the pouch\u201d kinda guy, but for the sake of this review, I did my due diligence and tried them toasted and untoasted. I opted against the \u201cheat in the microwave for 3 seconds\u201d option.<\/p>\n

I set my rarely used toaster to medium heat and waited for what felt like an hour. A watched toaster never toasts.<\/p>\n

The flavor was faint with the maple far outweighing the \u201cbacon.\u201d I\u2019d go as far to say the toasted crust and (vanilla?) frosting were the most prominent flavors. There\u2019s just not enough of a filling to crust ratio to really get a ton of the maple bacon flavor. That\u2019s a universal Pop-Tart problem for me.<\/p>\n

\"Kellogg's<\/a><\/p>\n

I scraped a few of the brown flecks off the icing, and while they did have a salty flavor to them, they didn\u2019t scream \u201cbacon.\u201d I\u2019m really only assuming they were the bacon element. I even cut one of the Pop-Tarts open and scraped the filling out with a knife so I could taste it. No bacon, it just was salty.<\/p>\n

While I don\u2019t know how it would have worked, I definitely think these would have benefitted from having little pieces of real bacon instead of being \u201cartificially flavored.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Kellogg's<\/a><\/p>\n

The maple taste is the one that stands out, but even that should have been more powerful. It didn\u2019t taste like I just ate a pancake with a big glob of maple syrup, it tasted like I ate one 20 minutes prior. They seem to have kept the maple intensity low so that the artificial phantom bacon could burst through, but it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I wish they swung for the fences more with this flavor. It could have been truly memorable. I definitely preferred them untoasted because there was a better balance, but, again, there wasn\u2019t enough bacon flavor. Normally I\u2019d tell you a wacky product like this is worth a try simply for the novelty of it, but I don\u2019t think you even need to bother.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 1 pastry – 210 calories, 60 calories from fat, 7 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of saturated fat, 2.5 grams of polyunsaturated fat, 1.5 grams of monounsaturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 210 milligrams of sodium, 35 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 15 grams of sugar, and 2 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> Kellogg’s Limited Edition Frosted Maple Bacon Pop-Tarts
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $1.98
\nSize:<\/b> 8 pastries\/box
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Walmart
\nRating:<\/b> 4 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Decent Maple flavor. Not terrible untoasted, Ambitious idea. Beggin’ Strips Dog.
\nCons:<\/b> Gimmicky. No actual bacon. Mild bacon taste at best. Stranger Dangers. Pop-Tart microwave instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I told a younger you that \u201cbacon overkill\u201d would become a thing, you\u2019d probably cry and scream \u201cStranger Danger\u201d because some old weirdo was talking to you about breakfast meats. Still, I can\u2019t help but wonder if we\u2019re getting too much bacon. Too much bacon?! Surely, I jest. Don\u2019t get me wrong, bacon is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1473,1495],"class_list":["post-19554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-kelloggs","tag-pop-tarts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19203,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/19\/coming-soon-frosted-maple-bacon-chocolatey-caramel-watermelon-and-pink-lemonade-pop-tarts\/","url_meta":{"origin":19554,"position":0},"title":"COMING SOON: Frosted Maple & Bacon, Chocolatey Caramel, Watermelon, and Pink Lemonade Pop-Tarts","author":"Marvo","date":"October 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Impulsive Buy reader Cupcake Kelly took this photo at The Food City Food Show in Tennessee. 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