{"id":658026,"date":"2010-02-08T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2010-02-08T11:08:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:08:13","slug":"alternate-popcorn-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658026","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Popcorn Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2383\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2383\" title=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/17-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Left: Korean &#34;big popcorn;&#34; right: Peruvian chulpe\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Korean &#34;big popcorn;&#34; right: Peruvian chulpe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On last week&#8217;s visit to the Buford Highway Farmers Market I found two interesting kinds of popcorn that Orville Redenbacher wouldn&#8217;t recognize if they bit him on his bowtie.<\/p>\n<p>On the left we have Korean-style popcorn &#8212; one of many puffed grain snacks collectively called <em>pung twi gi. <\/em>I remember trying similar puffed rice and corn snacks being sold as street food in Japan when I lived there.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2384\" title=\"photo 3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/33-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"photo 3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>It is very lightly sweetened, which I find appealing. This 6-ounce bag contains 5 recommended servings, which seems generous. I&#8217;d estimate each serving at about 2 cups, with a calorie count of 121. I find it a satisfying snack, and my kids like it in their lunchboxes.<\/p>\n<p>On the right is\u00a0 <em>chulpe<\/em>, which Peruvian restaurants often serve with beverages before the meal. I had no idea it was a popcorn, and the bag doesn&#8217;t give you any indication. It simply instructs you to toast the corn kernels in oil in a skillet until they begin to brown and smell &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left: Korean &#34;big popcorn;&#34; right: Peruvian chulpe On last week&#8217;s visit to the Buford Highway Farmers Market I found two interesting kinds of popcorn that Orville Redenbacher wouldn&#8217;t recognize if they bit him on his bowtie. On the left we have Korean-style popcorn &#8212; one of many puffed grain snacks collectively called pung twi gi. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Lbk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}