Culture William ‘Bill’ Post, inventor of Pop-Tarts, dies aged 96 - Post is credited as part of the Kellogg team to develop a pastry for the breakfast market and enclosing it in foil to keep it fresh.

William Post, the creator of Pop Tarts. Photograph: Matthysse-Kuiper-DeGraaf Funeral Home

William “Bill” Post, a key figure in the creation of Pop Tarts, the pre-cooked, frosted Kellogg toaster pastries, has died at 96.

Post is credited as part of the Kellogg team, responding to a process competitor Post had developed for dehydrating dog food to keep it fresh, to develop a pastry for the breakfast market and enclosing it in foil to keep it fresh.

Pop Tarts – a name later adopted by an all-girl Berlin garage band – were launched on the US market in 1964 after Post, a truck washer-turned-plant manager at Hekman Biscuit Company welcomed an idea from Kellogg’s executives for a new product to make.

Together with William LaMothe, Post assembled what he called, according to Legacy.com, “an amazing team that developed Kellogg’s concept of a shelf-stable toaster pastry into a fine product that we could bring to market in the span of just four months”.

Pop-Tarts made their market debut with the four original flavors of strawberry, blueberry, brown sugar cinnamon and apple-currant. There are currently between 20 and 30 flavors on the market at any given time.

Post was raised on the south side of Grand Rapids, as one of seven children of Dutch immigrants, according to the outlet, and served in the US army air corps. After he retired he became a brand ambassador for Kelloggs.

“He was asked to tell the Pop Tart story to young people in countless classrooms and always enjoyed accommodating those requests, giving his testimony of God’s goodness to ‘the son of an immigrant’, and bringing some of his unending supply of Pop Tarts with him,” Legacy.com wrote.

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[holyhandgrenade]

Just don't ruin the wake by pushing down the lever on his casket.

but Mr. Post wasn't Jewish. He doesn't even have a wikipedo page.

This is a much better article btw

https://fox59.com/news/national-world/pop-tart-inventor-william-bill-post-dies-at-96/

Netflix is releasing a movie with seinfeld of all people called Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

What are Pop-Tarts?
I have never had one in my life and I have no idea what they look like.

Breakfast pastries you put in a toaster. Can be eaten as is.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

“He was asked to tell the Pop Tart story to young people in countless classrooms and always enjoyed accommodating those requests, giving his testimony of God’s goodness to ‘the son of an immigrant’, and bringing some of his unending supply of Pop Tarts with him,”

I hope this nigga never had to pay for a Pop Tart in his life. Would have been the least Kellogg could do.

This guy and whoever invented Hot Pockets are snack food gods.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

It's surreal knowing that all the people who actually did things are dying off and all we're left with are the hacks chasing their coattails.

 

[HackerX]

Dude created what is a quintessential part of American breakfast culture. He's earned his place in the afterlife.

He's up there in hwite heaven with the Little Caesars founder (5$ hot n' ready, can't beat it) and whoever invented the Big Mac.

 

[Fried-Rice12]

Breakfast pastries you put in a toaster. Can be eaten as is.
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Uhhhhhh . . . Alright?
I will stick with my homemade wonton soup for breakfast, thank you very much.
You can keep your Pop-Tarts.

I hope this nigga never had to pay for a Pop Tart in his life. Would have been the least Kellogg could do.

This guy and whoever invented Hot Pockets are snack food gods.

What is a Hot Pocket?
I know this sounds incredibly stupid since I grew up in Canada, but my mother basically prohibited me from eating most varieties of goyslop (my father just nodded and agreed with her when I appealed to him). Instead, she cooked meals from raw ingredients and later taught me how to cook the same way.

 

[Marvin]

The s'mores poptarts are fucking awesome. Also sugary as fuck.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Uhhhhhh . . . Alright?
I will stick with my homemade wonton soup for breakfast, thank you very much.
You can keep your Pop-Tarts.


What is a Hot Pocket?
I know this sounds incredibly stupid since I grew up in Canada, but my mother basically prohibited me from eating most varieties of goyslop (my father just nodded and agreed with her when I appealed to him). Instead, she cooked meals from raw ingredients and later taught me how to cook the same way.

I'm sorry you had to eat traditional Canuk food like wonton soup and possibly soups made from smaller 4 legged animals as well.....

Your father sounded henpecked.

Sorry you didn't get to experience anything besides Southern Chinese food your entire childhood. Perks of living in an ethnic enclave I guess.

Also, Canada couldn't create a food 1/2 this good if it tried

 

[Fried-Rice12]

I'm sorry you had to eat traditional Canuk food like wonton soup and possibly soups made from smaller 4 legged animals as well.....

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No need to pity me. I ate well.
Its funny that you mention the genus Canis. A good friend in elementary school got me some coyote (and later other wild game) and my mother just cooked it up without no questions asked after I told her what it was.
My family actually does not eat dog or cat; that is a Cantonese thing and we are not Cantonese.

Your father sounded henpecked.

He is still the man in the house. It is only on the subject of food that he yields to my mother.
Now that I am older and wiser, I think they were correct to keep me off the goyslop.

Sorry you didn't get to experience anything besides Southern Chinese food your entire childhood. Perks of living in an ethnic enclave I guess.

I ate toast with maple bacon and fried egg and other western foods like oatmeal with fruits 3 times a week for breakfast. I just like Chinese food, the same way an Englishman likes fish and chips.
And I moved to a small town after elementary school because my father was posted to a new base.

Also, Canada couldn't create a food 1/2 this good if it tried

I pity you Yankees, stuffed to the gills with artificial crap yet you still call it food.
None of this "american food" is actually American. It is goyslop created by (((the globalists))) to make you weak.

 

[Snekposter]

I pity you Yankees, stuffed to the gills with artificial crap yet you still call it food.
None of this "american food" is actually American. It is goyslop created by (((the globalists))) to make you weak.

Leaf hands typed this post.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

The s'mores poptarts are fucking awesome. Also sugary as fuck.

I was obsessed with the smores and cookies n' cream ones.

They're amazing but so much damn sugar.

 

[derpherp2]

This man singlehandedly saved me from starving in the dorms.

Also frozen bluberry poptart allowed to thaw with some piping hot choco chip

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Uhhhhhh . . . Alright?
I will stick with my homemade wonton soup for breakfast, thank you very much.
You can keep your Pop-Tarts.

I don't care for poptarts much. They taste like shitty bread full of flavored corn syrup to me. Prefer having oats with fruit, honey, and jam or cereal with fruit.

What is a Hot Pocket?

Microwaveable turnovers full of savory ingredients. Most popular one is the pizza one.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Toaster Strudels curb stomps Pop-Tarts but they're at least more versatile. RIP.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Toaster Strudels curb stomps Pop-Tarts but they're at least more versatile. RIP.

Toaster strudels are the thinking man's corn syrup filled pastry.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Toaster strudels are the thinking man's corn syrup filled pastry.

Their fruit flavored corn syrup is much more refined (possibly in both senses of the word).

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

What is a Hot Pocket?

Various meats and cheeses inside a crust. Microwaves in a little over a minute.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

William Post, the creator of Pop Tarts. Photograph: Matthysse-Kuiper-DeGraaf Funeral Home

Jesus christ, I came in all sad that the inventor of Pop Tarts had died

And then I saw that goddamned -ass smile and I couldn't stay on the feels train

LOOK HOW SILLY HE LOOKS LMFAO

Billy Post, you were a great man. Rest in power king.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

ITT: burgers unable to comprehend that other countries are not familiar with their "cuisine".

 

[Kugelsak Kastengrus 6th]

He was a god amongst men. RIP

Smores and brown sugar are my favorites