TOASTER FOODS Introduction The Golden-Brown Age of Toast A 6000-year history Nothing MoreThan Fillings The true story of Pop Tarts Mutant Spawns of Pop Tarts Strange and failed toaster foods Who Stole the Pop Tarts? Hot Slots Recipes for your toaster Plugged-in Toasters Links to other toaster-related sites Best Thing since Sliced Bread Eggos; Lenders' Bagels; Thomas' English Muffins    Other Features    Chewing Gum Teddy Bears Motorcycles Lunchboxes Toasted Foods Oral Hygiene		Plugged-in Toasters   Links to other toaster-related sites For elementary school teachers who want a hands-on lesson to teach kids about the effects of energy but don’t trust them with anything more dangerous than a toaster, here’s a lesson plan that uses innocent toast as a lab animal: http://www.macropress.com/energy.htm It’s creepy: The toaster asks you how dark you want your toast, understands your answer, and makes the necessary adjustments. Demonstrating the dangers of too much time and book larnin’, two students show how they built a speech recognition toaster for a college class: http://www.the4cs.com/~corin/cse477/toaster/ Internet flame wars: Two different academics went forth to scientifically replicate humorist Dave Barry’s findings that a strawberry Pop Tart®, if exposed to enough heat in a jammed toaster, will burst into foot-and-a-half flames. The first “study” has extensive pictures; the second, a deadpan scientific detachment. Check out the incendiary results: http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast/ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gmbrown/tart/ You can visit the renovated Pop Tarts webpage at: http://www.poptarts.com/