Now you can eat gold too, thanks to USA’s Billion Dollar Popcorn!
The world offers us some of the most surprisingly exotic foods that we can ever think of. One among them is USA’s Billion Dollar Popcorn. Do these popcorns drip with diamonds, glob with gold, or are simply sprinkled with rare and expensive spices? Nevertheless, they must be super pricey! Curious to know more about it? Keep reading!
Made with real and edible gold
Through decades, humans have gorged on popcorn both in cinema halls and elsewhere, that too in enormous amounts as the snack is known to be yummy and inexpensive. After all, it’s just corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. Having said that, humans do have the tendency to turn ordinary things into extraordinary, isn’t it?
Yes, that’s what exactly happened in case of USA’s famous Billion Dollar Popcorn. It is made by Chicago-based popcorn company Berco’s Popcorn and is priced at a whooping 250 US dollars per tin. No, they aren’t looting people for no reason. Turns out, the reason behind it being so expensive is that it is made with real and edible gold. To be more precise, its kernels are covered in 23 karat gold flakes that have been refined for eating.
What makes Billion Dollar Popcorn so expensive?
Not just gold flakes, Berco’s famous Billion Dollar Popcorn also has a host of other pricey ingredients. For instance, it has the best quality kernels that are topped with organic sugar-based caramel. Then there’s premium butter from the world-famous Vermont Creamery, not to forget the specially imported premium vanilla essence from the German company Nielsen Massey Bourbon. However, the tastiest ingredient of this high-end popcorn is a special salt called the Laeso, that comes from a small Danish Island of the same name. Food historians will tell you that it is the most expensive salt in the world as the place is considered to be the feasting place of the gods (home of Aegir, the King of the Sea) or Norse God’s Secret Stash as per Norse mythology.
All these reasons, combined together make Billion Dollar Popcorn, the most expensive popcorn in the globe. If not present in Chicago in person, one can also order this popcorn from Berco’s website that imports worldwide. A small bag costs 50 dollars, a standard 1-gallon tin costs 250 dollars and you can also order 6.5-gallon tin that comes at a whooping 1000 dollars. Either way, you got popcorn at your hands that may not cost a billion dollar but will surely make you feel so!
Interestingly, Berco’s Popcorn promotes the Billion Dollar Popcorn with this tagline: ‘Changing your world one kernel at a time’. Nice, isn’t it?