{"id":20278,"date":"2016-07-06T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=20278"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T01:20:32","slug":"review-pillsbury-limited-edition-peanut-butter-strawberry-toaster-strudel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/06\/review-pillsbury-limited-edition-peanut-butter-strawberry-toaster-strudel\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Pillsbury Limited Edition Peanut Butter & Strawberry Toaster Strudel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pillsbury<\/a><\/p>\n

For the better part of four years as a TIB reviewer, I have maintained a nearly impeccable streak that few writers in the colorfully chemical world of nutritionally devoid junk food can lay claim to.<\/p>\n

I have kept poop references to an absolute minimum.<\/p>\n

There have been one or two Fiber One one-liners, maybe some vague references to flatulence, and the occasional, you know what that looks like\u2026<\/i>, but never have I just come out and said something I\u2019ve eaten looks like poop and pretty much tastes as vile as you could imagine. In other words, like, yeah\u2026<\/p>\n

But like Jerry Seinfeld\u2019s barfless streak<\/a>, Joe DiMaggio\u2019s hitting streak, and Don Gorske\u2019s Big Mac streak<\/a>, my ability to hold out from using the most primal of negative food metaphors has expired. I believe the technical term for moments like this is that the shit has hit the fan.<\/p>\n

\n\"Pillsbury<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Skippy Peanut Butter (left) Peanut butter-flavored icing (right)<\/div>\n

<\/small><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

There is just no other way to describe the artificial peanut butter flavored filling of the Pillsbury Limited Edition Peanut Butter & Strawberry Toaster Strudel. That I am supposed to refer to this brown goo as icing just makes me want to throw up. <\/p>\n

Icing is something you want to nibble off a day-old glazed donut; icing is what made Santa Claus fat in the process of hundreds of years of sugar cookie eating; icing is not, and never shall be, a cloying fake peanut butter taste that leaves you with a metallic and bitter alcohol flavor in your mouth when you should be enjoying a PB&J.<\/p>\n

\"Pillsbury<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a baker, you might recognize the flavor I\u2019m talking about. It\u2019s the flavor of imitation peanut butter extract; noticeably synthetic, with a cough-syrup like alcohol aftertaste, it\u2019s made all the worse by a horribly out-of-place sweetness. There\u2019s no saltiness, no lip-smacking fatty mouthfeel, and definitely no roasted depth. If I didn\u2019t know better, I\u2019d say the Pillsbury Doughboy is allergic to peanuts.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and the icing looks like poop.<\/p>\n

\"Pillsbury<\/a><\/p>\n

Thankfully, the D.I.Y. nature of the Toaster Strudel provides a saving grace. Since the packets of the icing are separate, one can simply avoid them like one would avoid, well, foods that are known to cause gastrointestinal distress. Eaten completely without peanut butter, the toaster strudel is fine: The strawberry jelly is admirable for a frozen product, while the flaky layers provide buttery croissant notes.<\/p>\n

Adding your own peanut butter makes the pastry delicious, but you\u2019ve probably figured that out by now. Humans have only been enjoying the combination for a gazillion years*, and the slightly caramelized edges of the golden-brown strudel give the combination an unexpected richness that will make you want to start making PB&Js out of croissants.<\/p>\n

Overall, the spokesman and chief baker for Pillsbury didn\u2019t just forget to put on a pair of pants, he forgot to put actual peanut butter in his peanut butter and jelly Toaster Strudels. <\/p>\n

What follows is one of the more disgusting visuals in frozen breakfasts, not to mention an abrupt goodbye to one of the best streaks in junk food blogging. It\u2019s a shame, really, because all other things being equal, the Toaster Strudels aren\u2019t so bad. Just make sure you get rid of the \u201cicing\u201d ASAP and have jar of Jif close at hand.<\/p>\n

*approximate<\/i><\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 1 pastry with icing \u2013 180 calories, 6 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 mg of cholesterol, 180 mg of sodium, 27 grams of carbohydrates, less than 1 gram of dietary fiber, 10 grams of sugars, 2 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Purchased Price:<\/b> $2.00
\nSize:<\/b> 11.7 oz box
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Walmart
\nRating:<\/b> 4 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> A fine and scrumptious flaky layered pastry without the poop-inspired peanut butter flavored icing. Surprisingly balanced buttery crust with sweet, gooey strawberry jelly. More substantial eating than a Pop-Tart.
\nCons:<\/b> The absolute vilest and most repulsive peanut butter flavored product I have ever put into this temple I call my body. Peanut butter icing tastes like a 50-50 mix of sweet and low and peanut butter flavored extract. Poopless review streak coming to an ignominious end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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