On Monday I was in the crappy little food market in the crappy little desert town nearest where I live, and I saw a package that I thought was funny and also perplexing…
“What,” I wondered, “could popcorn possibly be based on other than plants?” I took the picture intending to mock the simpleminded word salad, but then I wondered if maybe it means something after all and I’m the clueless one here.
When I make popcorn, I pop it in butter. It’s the only way, other than salting the living hell out of it like I did when I ran the popper in a movie theater I worked at in high school, to give popcorn any taste. And I’d never serve my popcorn to a vegan, because butter isn’t “plant-based.” It would be like serving porkchops to a rabbi. So maybe the package labeling that was silly to me makes perfect sense to a vegan? I’m not sure but that’s my hypothesis.
Nothing there but virtue signaling.
I remember popcorn made on the stove, using peanut oil. Also drenched in butter. Good stuff, Maynard.
Pop Zero cooks their popcorn in algae oil that is farmed, and grown in large airtight vats and then pressed for oil. Yum… 🤮
I’ll stick to my over the stove in a Whirley-Pop popcorn popper with butter and a little salt, thank you very much.
You should have bought that bag. It could be a collector’s item in the fullness of time.
https://www.popzeropopcorn.com/password The company seems to be shutting down.
maybe try poping it in BACON GREASE, been doing that for years & it adds a bit of salt along with bacon taste try it!
I’m with DAN. . .but with the addition of swiping the popcorn through a bowl of avacado/sour cream mixture. Don’t forget to have your favorite brew at hand.
I would have looked at where it’s made. That looks like a ‘made in china’ line.
Decades ago I would do it in a pot with oil at the bottom and then melt butter in a cast iron skillet to pour over it. Then someone bought me a microwave popper that works great. No oil in it, just popcorn. One day I wasn’t paying attention to the butter and it got pretty well browned and foamed up. Dumped the popcorn in a container and used the butter anyway. Man, was that a taste treat. My wife didn’t care for it, though, so now I’ll make a batch for her with melted butter and one for me with browned butter.
Bacon grease? Browned butter? I’m going to have to give those try.