Popcorn Shed Gourmet Popcorn Selection Gift Tin, Ultimate Foodie Gift with Three Delicious Popcorn Flavours, Vegetarian Gift Yellow 400g

I'm not a particularly big fan of popcorn; I certainly don't hate it but usually find it slightly disappointing for some reason. I tried to get into it a few years ago, in order to cut down on chocolate but while I usually liked the flavours, I wasn't particularly keen on the actual popcorn itself. This, however, is absolutely gorgeous. And the tin is top quality, too.My favourite is definitely the Christmas Pudding flavour, which tastes of nutmeg & cinnamon. While these can be strong flavours, they do not overwhelm here. The chocolate popcorn is also fantastic, with a rich, flavoursome taste. Apparently it's made with Belgian chocolate, which my taste buds love! The caramel is the sweetest of the three, with a pleasant butterscotch taste. However, my favourite element is the texture of the popcorn itself. I've already taste-tested, shall we say, more of it than I should have (for review purposes, of course - you're welcome) & so far, no hard pieces or un-popped kernels to break my teeth on - just perfectly cooked popcorn with a slight crunch surrounding a softer interior.If you can bear to part with it, the tin makes it a great gift. The labels peel away easily, without leaving any stray bits stuck on. The ribbon has a section which is designed to make it easy to pull apart without undoing the knot - the end of one of the separated sections even has a sticky patch covered with removable paper, so you can stick it back together again & reuse it. Last but not least, inside the tin is a piece of card which separates the three bags of popcorn into vertical sections, so you can eat all of them at once without having to mix them together.This is not a cheap product but - as much as it surprises me to say this about popcorn - it's a luxury item. And it's a large tin which holds a lot of popcorn! Having tasted it & seen how beautifully it's presented, the price seems more reasonable than it initially did. This would make an excellent gift - but if you taste some first, you may not be able to give it away!

Given as a giftGood flavour but there were far to many rock hard pieces of corn that plainly hadn’t “popped” properly. This was particularly apparent in the standard toffee variety

Deceptively tiny amount of popcorn for more than twice what it would cost at a cinema. Flavour is non-existent, sweet with nothing else. Just terrible. Overpriced. Rubbish.

Flavours are weird.

Make no mistake, this is really nice popcorn, loaded with great flavours. All three are very nice as is the tin it all comes in.Each flavour is packed in its own bag and it seemed to keep fairly well once opened.Would I buy it again myself? Yes definitely, but perhaps not at that price. Maybe if I was buying it as a gift for a popcorn lover though which I guess is what's intended with this.

First things first, this is great popcorn, fantastic even, coming beautifully presented in a tin (there's even a bow on top), inside of which sits 3 individually bagged flavoured popcorn - caramel, chocolate, and Christmas Pudding.The caramel one is awesome, two of the greatest things in existence (caramel and popcorn) and they combine them into little pobbles of sweet heaven. The chocolate one is good too, although personally I don't believe that it's a patch on the caramel one, but it's still pretty good. However, the Christmas Pudding one is an absolute delight. Caramely with a hint of spices that you might find in your hot choc at Christmas markets pre-Covid.Word of warning though, although they are all great popcorn, they are very sweet, sickly sweet even, maybe too sweet for some, but they are a great alternative snack when bingeing on Netflix/Prime/Disney+/whatever streaming service you have. They're also probably just as unhealthy as popping crisps and toffees into your mouth.Now, price... Maaaaaaan, the price. At time of writing this is £25! Twenty five of your hard earned pounds for what amounts to a mere 400g of popcorn. Granted, they are gourmet popcorn, but £25??? For £25 I would want 2kg minimum! This is eye-wateringly expensive, but, having said that, if you're a fan of popcorn, and, maybe as a one off, or even as a nice gift to someone, then this may... Actually, I'm having trouble justifying the price... I guess luxury comes at a cost.

I wasn't convinced by this super-expensive and actually quite unhealthy popcorn. It's beautifully presented in an attractive looking red and green patterned tin, that's roughly the size of a biscuit barrel and has a matte black ribbon wrapped around the outer. The overall weight of included popcorn is a minimum of 400g. The tin is divided inside and the three flavours packed separately so they remain fresh until each bag is opened. The three flavours really weren't to my taste - the flavouring is so heavily applied and sweet that you rather lose track of the underlying corn and any pretence that this is a healthy snack is long gone - with these varying between 365 and 494kCal/100g, and sugars making up between 60.4 and 80.6g per 100g. To me, this really seems to have lost track of the underlying popcorn.The flavouring comes as a sort of thick shell over the outside of the corn pieces, and is very evenly applied, but for me there's far too much of it on all three flavours - it's thick, cloying, excessively sweet, and the few unpopped kernels in the mix have in several cases welded hard to this coating instead of dropping to the bottom of the bag, and come as rather an unpleasant surprise when you do encounter one stuck to the side of a fluffy piece of corn. We didn't enjoy any of these (four of us tried - me, my husband, my Mum, and my Dad). We quite like some of the nut-based and cheese-based flavours from this brand, as well as some of their lighter, vegan-friendly flavours, but the flavours in this mix are just too sweet. The tin I received (a few days ago) has a best before date of 15 December - not ideal for a Christmas-themed food product.The tin looks like a lovely present. But for popcorn it's eye-wateringly expensive at £25 for the tin.

Most popcorn is old and stale. No return policy