[warning - food subthread]

Pop tarts These are flat pastry pockets filled with a substance like jam but with more sugar and less flavour. For good measure, they are coated with extremely sweet icing. Sounds reasonable enough so far, doesn't it but ... get this... they are actually designed to be heated in a toaster and eaten for breakfast. I sent some of these to my sister in NZ. She wrote back saying "these explain a lot about Americans". And so they do. url in first post

Sadly we have these here in Britain - very strange. I am glad to discover that we didn't invent them. They should be cast into the wheelie bin without opening. I was wondering if the sudden surge in diabetes was related to their sales figures. A strange was to start the day. [warning off]