Introduced 1985 Previous owners Pillsbury Company | Country USA Related brands Registered as a trademark in July 28, 1992 | |
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Toaster Strudel is a toaster pastry brand which was originally notable for being stored frozen, due to innovations in 1980s food manufacturing processes. The pastries are a convenience food, prepared simply and quickly by heating them in a toaster and then spreading the included icing packet on top.
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Toaster Strudel is marketed under the Pillsbury brand, formerly of the Pillsbury Company. The product has found considerable success since being deployed in 1985 as competition with Kellogg's Pop-Tarts brand of non-frozen toaster pastries. In 1994, the company launched the advertising slogan "Something better just popped up". As of August 2013, the company increased the foreign branding, launching a brand ambassador character named Hans Strudel, and the new slogan of "Get Zem Göing".
Flavors
Since the brand's introduction, various flavors of Toaster Strudel have come and gone, and a current list is on the manufacturer's website. Flavors have included:
Toaster Scrambles
A similar Pillsbury product, Toaster Scrambles, is a savory toaster pastry with meat and cheese breakfast ingredients. In 2013 two varieties were available:
In popular culture
In the 2004 teen movie Mean Girls, it was fictitiously claimed that Gretchen Wieners's family fortune was due to her father's invention of the Toaster Strudel.