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I’m a huge fan of popcorn, I tend to go through a whole 80g bag at work every day which probably isn’t good for my health but I’ll let my future self deal with that. My go to flavour and brand has always been sweet and salty Poshcorn from Tyrrells, but I’ve recently noticed a cornucopia of flavours from my local supermarket and decided to try then out.

Please bear in mind my opinions of these flavours are subjective, everyone has different taste and although there are some flavours I find repulsive, I’m sure others might enjoy them a lot. So take my opinions with a grain of salt. With that said, here are the five craziest popcorn flavours I could find.

7 Chocolate Mallow Popcorn – Butterkist

So let me start off with the good. This smelt really nice, looked really tasty and, the first few ones were quite nice. Now for the rest.

The kernels were unbearably sweet, I probably stomached a few handfuls before giving it away, and even then it still couldn’t be finished between 4 people. There were no unpopped kernels, but some of them were very hard, to the point where I could chew no more and had to pick them out of my mouth. I almost thought one has broken my teeth because the cracking sound it made when I chewed it was so loud. I wouldn’t really recommend this to anyone, however, feel free to check it out if you’re a fan of chocolate and want a challenge. I will be avoiding this like the plague.

Movie companion - Mortal Kombat 2

6 Maple Bacon - Metcalfe’s Skinny

The name of this popcorn flavour seemed quite odd to me until a friend explained it was quite common in America, making bacon with syrup so I took his word for it and opened the packet. The smell of strip from the bag was immediately apparent, however, the kernels themselves had a strong bacon smell, as well as a strong bacon taste. This was horrible I don’t know who thought having bacon flavoured popcorn was a good idea but it isn’t. Eating handfuls of popcorn brought out the syrup a bit more but overall wasn’t a good experience, and it left an unpleasant taste in my mouth when I was finished.

Good points about the popcorn were the flavour was lightly and evenly spread amongst the kernels, similar to all other Metcalfe flavours. The flavouring wasn’t too powdery and there were no unpopped kernels. Still, not very good popcorn at all.

Movie companion - Mortal Kombat

5 Peanut Butter & Caramel - Popworks

On paper, this flavour should taste amazing. The strong flavour of peanut butter dampened with the smooth sweet taste of caramel topped off with the crunchiness of popped corn. In reality, this couldn’t have been more of a disaster. It doesn’t taste anything like peanut butter and caramel, more of a light bacon flavour with a garlicky aftertaste.

On the plus side, the crunch from each popcorn is perfect, and there were no unpopped kernels in the bag. Flavours are distributed mostly evenly between each kernel so there wasn’t one with a strong flavour and one with a weak one and it does actually smell like peanut butter and caramel, it’s just a shame it didn’t taste as good as it smelt.

Movie companion – Your Highness

4 Sticky toffee pudding - Popworks

This is a good flavour, not amazing, not bad, just good. The flavour is very similar to a standard toffee flavoured popcorn with a slightly odd aftertaste. The popcorn smelt more like sticky toffee pudding instead of tasting like it.

After eating this pack my fingers, and the desk I at the popcorn on were a bit powdery, not as powdery as the Apple Pie flavoured one, also from Popworks, but powdery enough to be noticeable. The flavouring was evenly spread around each kernel, unfortunately, I had a few unpopped ones in my bag which is quite unusual for Popworks.

Movie companion - Ted

3 Yogurt Popcorn - Butterkist

I must admit this wasn’t something I thought would be possible with popcorn. Coating each kernel with a layer of hard sweet yoghurt, but it works really well. The feeling of biting into the first one and crunching on the soft popcorn inside is a memory that will stay with me for a lifetime. These were by far the heaviest popcorn kernels I’ve ever eaten, which made it difficult to eat more than one at a time.

I really like this flavour of popcorn and would definitely have it again, but in a much smaller amount. It was very sweet, difficult to finish the whole bag. On the plus side, there were no unpopped kernels, and any crumbs broken off were tasty tiny balls of yoghurt which I enjoyed finishing.

Movie companion - Eat, pray love

2  Apple Pie - Popworks

I didn’t think it was possible to capture the taste of apple pie in a popcorn but somehow Popworks have been able to do it. Each chew produced an incredible flavour akin to Mr Kipling’s apple pies. In fact, due to the nature of popcorn, I believe apple crumble would have been a better name for it. Sadly there were a few issues.

Firstly, it’s far too sweet. I struggled to finish a whole bag even after others had taken some. There was far too much powdery residue in the flavouring, a few handfuls made my fingers look like I had dipped them in sherbet, this is the first bag of popcorn I had to lick my fingers after eating them which isn’t ideal. Overall great popcorn, but better in small doses.

Movie companion - American Beauty

1 Summer Strawberries & Cream - Tyrells

Tyrells can do no wrong when it comes to Poshcorn, they perfected the sweet & salty flavour and now they’ve done it again with Summer Strawberries & Cream. The taste is identical to the strawberry and cream swirl sweets I had as a child, and each bite brought back that childhood memory.

Every kernel had a great crunch level and there wasn’t too much powdery residue from the flavouring. There were also no in popped kernels in the bag I had which is unusually impressive for Tyrells. Sadly the flavouring wasn’t distributed evenly so there were the odd few incredibly sweet ones. Still one of the best popcorn flavours I have ever tasted.

Movie companion - Romeo and Juliet

I’m always up for exploring and trying out new things and hopefully, my curiosity has helped you make the crucial decision of picking what interesting popcorn flavour you want to try when you watch your next film. I’m sure I will do more of these in the future so be sure to keep up with this site on social for more.

Ollie

When two creatives find themselves in a relationship it only makes sense to create something together using the best of their skills. A way of sharing ideas with each other, learning more about each other, and to build something they can bother be proud of. For us, we believe a blog is a perfect embodiment of that project, a way to document our story, including ups, downs and everything in between, regardless of how random. We don’t plan to make lots of money from this or rub our relationship in the face of others. It’s just something we want to work on together, on a regular basis.

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Ollie