The Hot Pocket World
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Hot Pockets weren’t born in a lab. In 1978, two brothers from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina wanted a snack they could eat while hang gliding. They needed a handheld meal that would trap heat against the wind. Their answer = a stuffed sandwich called the Tastywich.
By the 1980s it was rebranded Hot Pockets
and spread across grocery aisles, hang-glider clubs, and even sparked a short-lived dance craze for people tired of messy pizza slices.
Unverified photograph, Baconville, KY, 1991.
Believers claim the dance encoded instructions for using Hot Pockets as improvised projectiles part of a short-lived ninja subculture suppressed by Nestlé.
Nestlé bought the brand in 2002 for $2.6B. Since then, it’s been dorm food, late-night food, comfort food famous for convenience, infamous for uneven microwave burns.
A hang-gliding lunch invention that became a billion-dollar pop-culture staple.
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Two hang gliding brothers from Kitty Hawk inventing what became Hot Pockets in 1978 somehow boosts what had been my own perceived sense of a dwindling faith in humanity.
This Post did me a power of good. Please keep ‘em coming.