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01/16/2004: New Article: POP QWIZ Colored Popcorn!

How many of you remember “Pop Qwiz?” Made in the early 90s, this ill-fated Pop Secret brand combined the familiar taste of buttered popcorn with wacky ass neon colors. If you wanted to eat red, blue, green or purple popcorn, you had to be a Pop Qwiz loyalist. The stuff seems to have been criminally short-lived. The world wasn’t ready for pink popcorn, but that doesn’t mean we can’t reminisce. Review includes a download for what’s probably the only Pop Qwiz commercial that ever existed. And Guessin’ Ted, too! Click here to read it!


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omg, i love that stuff, even though i wish they still made it, i doubt they ever will, i wish they’d bring back the drink orbitz by clearly canadian too, that and the funny colored popcorn was the best stuff ever

Ghosted by saabguy @ 02/14/2004 2:03 PM EST

my love for pop qwiz is undying. i would pay large sums of money to get a fresh box of it. god how i miss how everything in the late-80s/early-90s was neon!

Ghosted by conman16x @ 02/19/2004 1:09 AM EST

I thought that crap was so cool when i was a kid! my mom made me guess which color it was before i ate it

Ghosted by Kersten @ 02/21/2004 10:01 PM EST

Pop Qwiz popcorn holds a dear moment in time for me. I was at my best friend’s house and we decided to cook a bag of it in her parent’s brand new microwave. I was used to my parent’s microwave where you had to heat the bag for 5 minutes to get it to cook… not in her new one… no, it only took 3 minutes, But being 8, five minutes seemed like the right amount of time. I guess Purple and she guess green (I think). Anyway, the popcorn caught fire and set off the smoke detector and everything. Thankfully her father snatched the flaming bag from my hands and ran into the snow outside. When he came back in we asked him what color the popcorn was. He didn’t look too happy when he told us it was black.

Ghosted by CJ Burgandy @ 04/20/2004 3:41 AM EDT

Yep I remember Pop Qwiz popcorn quite well…as a matter of fact I saw the
commercial for it not too long ago on an old tape of TV shows from back in ‘91!
I never ate the stuff, but I loved the TMNT Turtle (or Sewer??) Pies — I can
still remember the taste of those and it’s making me hungry for one right now!

I’m glad I saved all the special TMNT II movie cards and stickers from the pies
- I still have those to this day!

Ghosted by Strike @ 05/08/2004 9:49 AM EDT

I used to eat that stuff all the time when I was younger! but then again I was old enough to buy it for myself too… But for some odd reason I had that little kid mentality that certain colors "tasted better" than others…Like my favorite colors somehow contained more butter than the others…How many colors were there? I know of at least four (purple, blue, red, green) but I think there was oarnge too?

Ghosted by Angel^Starlight @ 05/24/2004 9:35 AM EDT

I find it funny that they punish the girl for getting her answer wrong, but the guy who gets his wrong gets off scott free.

And props to the people who mentioned the host’s name. Plato. Ha Ha Ha. Now that’s a name.

Ghosted by gonchar @ 05/30/2004 1:48 AM EDT

I find it funny that they punish the girl for getting her answer wrong, but the guy who gets his wrong gets off scott free.

And props to the people who mentioned the host’s name. Plato. Ha Ha Ha. Now that’s a name.

Ghosted by gonchar @ 05/30/2004 1:48 AM EDT

Oh my gosh….I always mention to my sister, you know, when we have nothing else to do, "Do you remember we used to get this colored popcorn? And there were these commercials where kids had to guess the color?" And she never remembered. BUT I DID!! AND SOMEONE ELSE DID TO!! Ha. Alright, so a bit of my childhood was not forgotten. I used to LOVE that popcorn. I always, ALWAYS would try to guess…all my sibling would wait around the table, holding thier breath, while I yelled "RED!", ripped the bag open, and there was…..blue popcorn. Yeah, I hardly ever got the color right, but since it came out in 1991 – making me 5 – I couldn’t ever figure out why I was always wrong. Also, the yellow color sucked, cause it wasn’t a REAL color – just an extra-bright butter color. Blue was my favorite….I think I also liked the purple.

Ghosted by Anon @ 07/05/2004 11:59 PM EDT

Oh my gosh….I always mention to my sister, you know, when we have nothing else to do, "Do you remember we used to get this colored popcorn? And there were these commercials where kids had to guess the color?" And she never remembered. BUT I DID!! AND SOMEONE ELSE DID TO!! Ha. Alright, so a bit of my childhood was not forgotten. I used to LOVE that popcorn. I always, ALWAYS would try to guess…all my sibling would wait around the table, holding thier breath, while I yelled "RED!", ripped the bag open, and there was…..blue popcorn. Yeah, I hardly ever got the color right, but since it came out in 1991 – making me 5 – I couldn’t ever figure out why I was always wrong. Also, the yellow color sucked, cause it wasn’t a REAL color – just an extra-bright butter color. Blue was my favorite….I think I also liked the purple.

Ghosted by Anon @ 07/06/2004 12:00 PM EDT

Oh my gosh….I always mention to my sister, you know, when we have nothing else to do, "Do you remember we used to get this colored popcorn? And there were these commercials where kids had to guess the color?" And she never remembered. BUT I DID!! AND SOMEONE ELSE DID TO!! Ha. Alright, so a bit of my childhood was not forgotten. I used to LOVE that popcorn. I always, ALWAYS would try to guess…all my sibling would wait around the table, holding thier breath, while I yelled "RED!", ripped the bag open, and there was…..blue popcorn. Yeah, I hardly ever got the color right, but since it came out in 1991 – making me 5 – I couldn’t ever figure out why I was always wrong. Also, the yellow color sucked, cause it wasn’t a REAL color – just an extra-bright butter color. Blue was my favorite….I think I also liked the purple.

Ghosted by Anon @ 07/06/2004 12:00 PM EDT

Woah, I specifically came here to search for Pop Kwiz to see if anyone else remembered it! Lucky me. Anyhoo, I remember one particular batch that came out good, but it was purple and I was all set to throw it away because I thought it was scorched. I was about seven or eight when it came out and was CONVINCED that this popcorn was the King of all popcorns. Hey, it was neon colored! Of course it tastes better… right?

Ghosted by redhed311 @ 10/10/2004 11:41 AM EDT

Woah, I specifically came here to search for Pop Kwiz to see if anyone else remembered it! Lucky me. Anyhoo, I remember one particular batch that came out good, but it was purple and I was all set to throw it away because I thought it was scorched. I was about seven or eight when it came out and was CONVINCED that this popcorn was the King of all popcorns. Hey, it was neon colored! Of course it tastes better… right?

Ghosted by redhed311 @ 10/10/2004 11:41 AM EDT

I thought I was crazy and the only person who remembered. Now I have proof. I actually made my friends read this thing to prove that I wasn’t crazy. I loved this stuff! BRING IT BACK!!!!

Ghosted by Evangeline @ 10/18/2004 3:14 PM EDT

Lol, I googled for this shit but didn’t really expect to find anything. I remember that commercial. Didn’t make a big impression on me at the time, certainly I never actually ate any of the stuff, but a friend of mine used to imitate the kid who wins the “quiz”. I was getting some perfectly good work done a moment ago until the words “mmmm… tastes so buttery!” randomly spewed forth from some dark and stagnant recess of my brain into the search bar, and now here I am.

Ghosted by Josh @ 03/05/2007 3:05 AM EST

OMG!!! My great aunt used to buy it for my sis and I. My mother hated it because the color got on our hands and then other things in turn. That stuff was awesome!

Ghosted by Chastity @ 06/04/2007 9:50 PM EDT

HEY, I LOVED THAT STUFF WHEN I WAS LITTLE!!! Too bad they did away with it. At 23, I remember a lot of products & commercials. Lately, I’ve been thinking about that “Almond Joy’s got nuts, Mounds don’t. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t!” I SAY THEY BIRNG BACK YE OLDE COMMERCIALS!!!

Ghosted by Anonymous @ 02/18/2009 3:54 PM EST

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01/16/2004: New Article: POP QWIZ Colored Popcorn!

How many of you remember “Pop Qwiz?” Made in the early 90s, this ill-fated Pop Secret brand combined the familiar taste of buttered popcorn with wacky ass neon colors. If you wanted to eat red, blue, green or purple popcorn, you had to be a Pop Qwiz loyalist. The stuff seems to have been criminally short-lived. The world wasn’t ready for pink popcorn, but that doesn’t mean we can’t reminisce. Review includes a download for what’s probably the only Pop Qwiz commercial that ever existed. And Guessin’ Ted, too!


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