Food is good. It’s nourishing, sustaining, and downright delectable. In a world rife with myriad daily horrors, why would you try to make food—perhaps our one last saving grace—worse?
Reader, I do not know.
But after a disturbing toaster strudel picture went mega-viral, now the teens are turning Pop-Tarts into downright abominations.
It started in Iowa, where a student at Iowa State University put a slice of American cheese in between two store brand Pop-Tarts and rode it into online infamy.
You ain’t from Iowa if you never had one of these 😤 pic.twitter.com/KSHyLD0mhv
— Chris Jorgensen (@TheChrisJorg) November 10, 2017
What really sent the tweet into the stratosphere though was a RT by the Iowa State campus police.
You’re under arrest https://t.co/ixOFBuN2pQ
— Iowa State University Police Department (@ISUPD) November 13, 2017
Now, the joke construction is a meme.
https://twitter.com/adumsteeves/status/933126667316416512
You ain’t from Oklahoma if you don’t dip your Pop Tart in Ranch Dressing 🤷🏼♀️ pic.twitter.com/yLLuPM4Gyp
— ℂ𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕪 𝕋𝕒𝕪𝕝𝕠𝕣 (@cjt12371) November 16, 2017
It’s spread to other flat foods.
https://twitter.com/kovacbruce/status/932812267782991873
And other big brand names.
https://twitter.com/neeema_s/status/931331609487224833
Of course, you can’t strike viral gold twice. Unless you catch the eye of the brand behind it all. Which the ranch-dipped Pop-Tart did.
This is just disrespectful https://t.co/jmdXANjILq
— Pop-Tarts (@PopTartsUS) November 20, 2017
It’s not quite Iowa State-police-tweet good, but it did it one better: It killed this trend.
Although, you know what? I take this back. This one is good.
https://twitter.com/Seanyy_Swerve/status/933239874089500672
I would try that once.