Whose idea was the Hot Pocket?!
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Answers: Was there some marketing meeting and some guy said "Hey, what if we took a pop tart and filled it with some nasty meat? We could cook it in a sleave thingy and dunk it in a toilet.
Jim Gaffigan Rocks!
Actually it was invented by a doctor named Ricardo Elastizo Hautepoquet in the early 18th century.
It was a pastry shell filled with leeches. The leeches would eat the inner lining of the pastry and stay alive, but the pocket kept them from escaping.
One of his assistants mistook it for food and ate one. He died from leech consumption but Hautepoquet knew he was on to something.
He filled his pastries with various meats and cheeses but the product did not find mainstream success until hundreds of years later and the advent of the microwave.
Certain stores still carry the leech variety, but only in the Southeastern United States.
Hot pocket for breakfast, one for lunch and be dead by dinner!
I have no idea, but I could just KISS that person for being SO frigging brilliant!
They're in my top 10 favorite foods of all time!
The american version of a Pasty:
less meat, more nasty.
Are these the same as caliente pockets? All my kids talk about are caliente pockets, and i cant find them at the store.