Maple Bacon is a relatively new flavor fad, but as far as I am concerned it ought to be retired immediately. And I'm a huge bacon lover, as well as someone who enjoys maple in many forms (syrup, cookies, doughnut bars, etc.).
As these flavors are already associated with breakfast, you might think that a Pop Tart would be a perfect way to replicate them. You would be wrong. I'm not a big fan of bacon bits sprinkled on a maple doughnut either, but at least that can involve real food rather than imitations. Here, you have frosting sprinkled with bacon-flavored something covering a pastry filled with maple-flavored something. Indeed, neither bacon nor maple were listed as ingredients.
I thought that the bacon flavor was too "smokey" and overpowered whatever enjoyment I might have had of the maple flavor. Other victims...I mean, co-workers...that I shared these with thought the opposite. But we all agreed that these two tastes didn't work together. Not as a Pop Tart, at least. If you like this flavor combination, stick with drizzling syrup on your warm, crispy bacon.
RATING: 1/5
