I'm still out there searching for a normie nut-free caramel popcorn, and haven't found one that's accessible to me yet. But the fixation is so strong that I went back to the unsatisfying Cretors well, this time for their flagship cheese/caramel mix. On the one hand: wtf Kati, you hate sweet/savory combos so what are you doing? But on the other hand, it must be popular for a reason, right? Also, maybe I can brute force a taste-change in myself, like I did with coffee and alc and avo (rip avo). Just gorge on sugared veg until I'm gagging.
But, I dunno if that's in the cards. This was not as jarring as I expected, but I think that's more down to it being neither properly sweet nor properly savory. The caramel corn is the same as before: weirdly puffy and soft, with a weirdly milk-heavy (creamy?) "caramel" coat. The cheese corn tastes stale and like a lighter version of Utz white cheese corn. Together they create the sensation of "expired vending machine snacks" (plural). One upshot is that a serving is slightly bigger due to the less calorie dense cheese corn. Maybe once I finish this bag I'll be less caramel corn obsessed. TBD.
Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10
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