Hot Pocket Ingredients poster in Boing Boing Bazaar

This Hot Pocket Ingredients poster is $30 in the Makers Market / Boing Boing Bazaar.

A poster detailing every ingredient in a Ham & Cheese Hot Pocket. A typographic beauty of food chemicals! Horrify your friends and yourself!
They are 18″×24″ (the image itself is 12″×18″) and feature a hand-screened four-color design expertly produced on beautiful FSC-certified 100# (270 gsm) Cougar Natural Cover Stock . Each print is hand-signed and numbered.

Hot Pocket Ingredients Poster

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Anonymous

considering the fact that a hot pocket such as this described here tastes so good, who cares whats inside? Isnt every frozen treat waiting to be nuked made up of as many, if not more, ingredients as this? Its a new era of laziness for cooking. “I got the munchies, oh man, hot pockets!”
Anonymous

I remember Sundays in the kitchen with Grandma, whipping up the week’s fresh batch of L-Cysteine Hydrochloride.
mellowknees

just want you guys to know that right after you posted about this little gem the first time, my husband and I decided to never eat Hot Pockets again (not that we ate them much in the first place, but this sealed the deal).
Talia

That doesn’t make them any less delicious.
cojoro

Modified food starch & Autolyzed Yeast Extract = MSG, partially hydrogenated fats, food coloring (which are carcinogens), several types of sugar, preservatives…my goodness, is it any wonder Americans are soooo unhealthy?
styrovor

Hmmm. If you’re going to make a typographic poster, you should probably at least google “kerning” first.
Mitch

I always thought “Hot Pockets” should be a nickname for a male prostitute.
solidgould

I could be wrong, but this looks like it was generated with Wordle – a fun little ap that generates “word clouds”.

http://www.wordle.net/

It is a fun way to waste a couple hours…
Dewi Morgan

This really makes me want some hot pockets. Mmm, milk, egg, garlic, cheese, ham… WANT!
Decay

I’d totally put this on my wall so my friends and I could snark at what the poor eat. Nyah hahaha.
JIMWICh

This calls for a link to Jim Gaffigan’s take on Hot Pockets.
Keenan Pepper

Now, can anyone point to one of these ingredients and give a specific issue with it? I only see *two* ingredients I actually avoid (and those two are closely related). Can you guess what they are?

(They’re the two that contain significant amounts of trans fat.)
- Nicco
  
  You’re right. I didn’t look at it the first time, so I assumed it listed a whole lot of chemicals and whatnot, but it’s really just a whole lot of ingredients. Not exactly healthy, but what do people expect from a ready-made turnover?
  Btw, was palm oil one of the ingredients you avoid?…I do.
d913

You can really taste the titanium dioxide
ClintonD

*in a falsetto sing-song voice* Hot Pooockets
trippcook2

$30 for a 2-foot poster? You can’t afford NOT to invest!
Anonymous

Hmmm.. What’s so horrifying about this?