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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!

Posted by Matt on 01/16/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 118 comments

I’m pretty sure we didna have this in Canada…Or we might have…I dunno…bad memory…
looks tastacular though…

Chestnuts roasted by Allie @ 01/17/2004 2:57 AM

You damn right skippy, I sure remember these bastards. In fact…I remember the god-awful taste it had cause of the food coloring put into the microwaveable butter. Cute idea, but just didn’t work out in the end.

Chestnuts roasted by Jimbolian @ 01/17/2004 3:25 AM

Is it just me or did that host in the commercial look like he had been pumped full of Prozac?

Chestnuts roasted by Bert Raccoon @ 01/17/2004 10:48 AM

So what is Ted doing now? Maybe he is working a concession stand at a movie megaplex …

Don’t Touch, Willy: You forgot all the crazy oreo flavas.

Chestnuts roasted by Kit @ 01/17/2004 12:15 PM

I remember trying this stuff when I was a kid and puking bright yellow popcorn all over the bathroom sink. Disgusting.

Chestnuts roasted by Tim @ 01/17/2004 2:42 PM

I’m still woozy from the mint and orange flavored KitKats I ate before X-Mas.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/17/2004 2:43 PM

I was utterly obsessed with pop qwiz as a kid my mom stopped buying it for me becuz the colored butter juice kept staining our couch. One other thing I remmeber about it is that the whole mystery color gimmick had a huge flaw. You could easily figure out what color it would be by looking on the bottom of the bag for a colored strip whatever color the strip was was the color the butter was

Chestnuts roasted by kryptangel @ 01/17/2004 11:45 PM

I ate this stuff once– I got blue. I then had blue poop for two days.

Never ate it again.

=)

Chestnuts roasted by atheist91883 @ 01/17/2004 11:57 PM

Orange Kit Kat…makes me ill thinking about it.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/18/2004 12:45 PM

At my local mall, there used to be a store that sold colored, flavored popcorn. Blue Raspbery popcorn was the best.

Chestnuts roasted by KTK @ 01/18/2004 4:25 PM

Paul…SLJHS Paul!?

Chestnuts roasted by KTK @ 01/18/2004 4:29 PM

Millions of children have grown up believing that the true color of raspberry is blue. Seriously. My friend’s kid is 11 and I brought some raspgerries over there once and she didn’t believe me or her mom that they were raspberries because they were red, not blue. Damn food dyes.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/18/2004 4:58 PM

I ate that nasty popcorn many times. It was always half burnt and super salty. So gross.

Chestnuts roasted by double d @ 01/18/2004 8:30 PM

I fondy remember this stuff, although I never got to try it. I did however look for it stores until I was about 11. Considering the ad came on when I was about 6, that’s a lot of wishful thinking about green popcorn.

Chestnuts roasted by Lady Yate-xel @ 01/19/2004 5:10 PM

"Millions of children have grown up believing that the true color of raspberry is blue. Seriously. My friend’s kid is 11 and I brought some raspgerries over there once and she didn’t believe me or her mom that they were raspberries because they were red, not blue. Damn food dyes."

They’re not?! * 0_0 *

Chestnuts roasted by CyHunter @ 01/19/2004 8:03 PM

I remember this commercial, but I never had any. And that’s mostly because I never asked for any at the grocery store. Why, you ask? Simply this: I fucking hate popcorn!

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 01/20/2004 9:01 PM

I remember this, but don’t think I ever bought more than one box. If I recall correctly, I really wanted blue but didn’t get it.

Oh, and since someone brought up Kit Kats, the British version of the Kit Kat is the greatest candy bar I’ve ever had. I dunno if they have the orange Kit Kats here, but the orange Brit Kat is amazingly good.

Chestnuts roasted by Abob Lyndsae @ 01/21/2004 2:47 PM

Killer Duck, yes, I mean the air popper. I love that thing. It was a birthday present my second year in college. At the very least, it amuses my brother when he visits. : 0 )

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 01/21/2004 9:36 PM

I nearly spit my breakfast all over my monitor when I saw this article come up a few days ago. All the time when I come here and see something from my childhood and think "Oh my god, I remember that" when I haven’t thought about it in years.

But the Pop Qwiz thing is without a doubt something that has not poped into my head for over 10 years. I remember being interested when I saw the commercial on TV, and like many others I wanted to try it.

So we picked some up at the store and made it at home. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t they only come in boxes of 3? Anyway, I also had the burning problem, I wonder if it was the dye they used. That was the first and last time I ever had Pop Qwiz.

Chestnuts roasted by Punisher Bass @ 01/22/2004 4:30 AM

I had hoped to repress this commercial. Horrible commercial that made me laugh but not because it was funny. This, however, did not stop me from buying this "stuff". Ditto on the burning. I had one bag of it as I gave the others away which was difficult because most of my friends already had bags they didn’t want. Only takers were the ones who had never had it. Poor chaps.

Chestnuts roasted by Micah @ 01/22/2004 4:51 PM

I loved it how it said WRONG! haha, I was laughing for days.

Chestnuts roasted by Bek @ 01/26/2004 9:15 PM

Because of this commercial my little brother used to squeal "TASTES SO BUTTERY!" after he farted. Lotsa laughs unless you had friends over.

I realize my brother is probably reading this, as he’s a sucker for these kinds of websites too. Sup, David.

Chestnuts roasted by Spatch @ 01/27/2004 3:20 AM

Oh I remember this stuff very vividly. I saw it, and I HAD to have it.

I asked my mom in the nicest tone possible (or possibly a whining, screeching squeal… give me a break, I don’t remember the actual event), "Mom, can I please have some of that cool colored popcorn?", and the answer was, of course, "No. There’s no difference between that and regular popcorn except the color."

My mom’s always been cool about exposing the bullshit advertising schemes to my sisters and me, even when we were little, but she just didn’t get it. I REALLY wanted some. And finally, just ONCE, we bought one of the over-priced packs. And the popcorn was good (I think I got purple).

Oh man, Matt, it’s almost 5 in the morning, I’m a flat broke college student with no car, I’m hungry as hell, and you HAD to bring up the Ninja Turle slime-filled pies. My teeth hurt (in a good way) just THINKING about eating another one of those.

I believe I only ate one of those, too. But oh MAN, remember those Ninja Turtles cookies, like one half of an Oreo covered in a green icing turtle shell?! I ate a whole box of those and watched Dick Tracy over and over again at my uncle’s house. OH GOD those were good!

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 01/27/2004 4:52 AM

Whenever I see anythng involving multicolor food, I see that Spongebob cartoon where he invented "the Pretty Pattie." It was Krabby Patties in diffrent colors in the end though, it turned everyone into the colors they ate.

Chestnuts roasted by Dragonrider @ 01/31/2004 3:58 PM

Holy shit! Yes I remember that crap! Just yesterday, i was thinking about it and asked someof my friends if they remember it, but when i mention it, people look at me like i have lobsters crawling out of my pants. I could have sworn that the purple tasted better than any other color.

Chestnuts roasted by r-dawg-oi @ 02/04/2004 12:41 PM

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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!

Posted by Matt on 01/16/2004. E-mail me!


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