An adult premium pop corn from Joe & Seph's

Joe and Seph's, the UK pop corn manufacturer, just launched a "cocktail" range. Nice move, which practicly brings the pop corn to the status of exclusiv food, and definitly take them out of the kid / teenager / kino nerd product.


They claim using % of real spirit, which make this product stronger as a beer. Could one get drunk with pop corn?

http://www.joeandsephs.co.uk/index.php?mode=pouches

The Pop Corn trend has reached Austria...

Austria got hit by the Pop Corn wave ... Whereas you can go to the hip Popcorner (http://popcorner.at) online or at their flagship store in Vienna to build your own pop corn mix, and pay it the adequate price, you can also go to Billa and get an interesting raspberry coco pop corn box...

Mini spark : Pop corn ice cream at Baskins-Robbins

The January flavor of the month at Baskins-Robbins is pop corn. So it seems that the pop corn trends goes wider into confectionnery... Looking at the ingredient list (quite amazing number of stuffs in), it seems there is no pop corn inside, but corn syrup, caramel, salt and aroma.

https://www.baskinrobbins.com/content/baskinrobbins/en/products/icecream/flavors.html

Science Spark : The purpose of this study was to determine to role of flake shape on the packing characteristics of popped popcorn

Let's be honnest, who would not immediatly click on the link when he receives the new publication alert for "Effect of flake shape on packing characteristics of popped popcorn" ? And the first sentence of the abstract just confirms this need : "The purpose of this study was to determine to role of flake shape on the packing characteristics of popped popcorn"

Sweley et al. simulated the filling of a movie theatre style packaging tub (14.0 cm bottom rim diameter, 17.0 cm upper rim diameter, and 15.4 cm tub height) with pop corn having different polymorphism (ie different shapes). Once they get a number, they checked by filling a real tub with real pop corn.

Results :

• Number of flakes to fill a tub agreed well between experiments and simulations.
• You can fill maximum 28% of your pack with pop corn , ie you pay for 72% of air when you buy pop corn in movie theather (in the best case!)
• 36.9% bilateral +63.1% multilateral polymorphism minimized the number of flakes to fill the tub : ie if you see a pop corn machine making about 1/3 of long pop corn and 2/3 of big cluster, you better get away , you are about to get ripped of.

Jess C. Sweley, Devin J. Rose, Xiaodong Jia, Richard A. Williams, David S. Jackson

Effect of flake shape on packing characteristics of popped popcorn

Journal of Food Engineering, Volume 127, April 2014, Pages 75–79

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2013.11.028