Junk Food Nation, it’s Leap Day!  Or Leap Year Day. Or whatever it’s called. February 29th!  The most magical day of the year! Happening once every four years, Leap Day reveals itself like Brigadoon, only to vanish after 24 hours.

I have to admit, I am fascinated by Leap Day. (Well, maybe fascinated is a strong word.  I’m interested in it).) The reason behind Leap Day is simple: the actual time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun is 365.25 days.  That is to say, we only count to 365 but there’s actually an extra .25 that happens every year we don’t count. So, every four years, we add the day to make up the difference.  Simple, right? Thus, this year has 366 days.  Boom.

On this day, bars have $2.29 beer deals. Subway has cookie deals. Chick-Fil-A has free item deals. I love it! It’s like an extra day to celebrate nothing at all, to go right along with Valentine’s Day and Arbor Day.

I’ve read a few articles about Leap Day babies and how they sometimes hate being born on Leap Day because of the hassle – people asking about it, joking that they’re only 6 years old (that’s original), having trouble entering the date into computer forms, problems with federal tax forms, etc. And I get that. I have a solution!  Easy – every single Leap Day baby should be drafted into Treadstone, and turned into a Jason-Bourne-replica. You live totally off the grid and perform black ops for the United States.  Problem solved.

So enjoy your Leap Day, everyone! Go out and make some bad decisions – you won’t even remember this day existed tomorrow, I promise 😉

And now, a photolog of today’s junk food: Kellogg’s Limited Edition Frosted Confetti Cake Pop-Tarts!

The Confetti Money Shot

Confetti cake is just cake with lots of colored spots inside and out. Is that a flavor?

It's like a rainbow polka dot explosion on a toaster pastry

They let you gift it! Aka we had no clue what else to put on this box

Pre-toast

Post-toast...lookin' eerily similar

A few spots inside as well, but mainly white frosting

Kelloggg’s Limited Edition Frosted Confetti Cake Pop-Tarts didn’t really taste any different than many Pop-Tarts I had in the past, like for example the Ice Cream Shoppe Vanilla Milkshake Pop-Tarts. Very disappointing, but as I sat there chewing, I was more angry at myself. What did I expect? I KNEW that this wasn’t going to be anything special, yet when I saw the words “Limited Edition” on the box in Safeway, I got bamboozled.

These had standard Pop-Tart flavor: bleached dough, sweet vanilla frosting, crunchy wheaty aftertaste.  The filling – like a cross between vanilla frosting and marshmallow filling. The confetti? Added nothing.

Sucks to my assmar.  These were not great.

Oh well, at least I can go get a free cookie at Subway today, the most magical day of the year!

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Sincerely, Junk Food Guy