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Harry & David Pop! Cinnamon Caramel Popcorn Review

My husband picked up a package of Harry & David Pop! Cinnamon Caramel Popcorn at Grocery Outlet and finally decided to open it today. I had been avoiding it as I don’t take to like cinnamon in commercial products – it’s often fake and tastes horribly. But I tried them and they are pretty good. Not great. I won’t be scarfing them down or encouraging him to buy another package, but they weren’t bad.

First, the cinnamon flavor, which comes from “cinnamon powder,” is pretty subtle. It’s there but it’s not on your face in an offensive way. It mostly just tastes of corn syrup, the ingredient they used to create the “caramel”. And that’s a problem because it doesn’t have those toasty caramel notes you want from caramel. The popcorn is just sweet, overwhelmingly so.

Harry & David introduced their Pop! line of popcorn in 2022, but I don’t see them being sold at the Harry & David website or mainstream retailers anymore, which suggests it’s been discontinued as a brand.

Harry & David Moose Munch @ Grocery Outlet

Grocery Outlet (at least the one in San Leandro) has 4.5 oz packages of Christmas-packaged Harry & David Moose Munch for sale at 99-cents.  They expire on 10/28/11, so they’re still perfectly fine to eat.  They have several flavor varieties, I tried the milk chocolate and another Christmasy flavor with cinnamon or ginger, which I didn’t enjoy.  They also have dark chocolate.  The milk chocolate popcorn was very good, though I’d say that about 10% of the popcorn is actually covered with milk chocolate, the rest is just good, but not extraordinary, caramel popcorn.  In all, it’s not a bad snack for $1 – though at 630 calories for the whole package, I’m not sure it’s really worth it, even if you share it with someone.