Product Review: Glad Corn’s “A-Maizing” Corn Snack
Jun 24th, 2008 by Admin
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Product Review - Glad Corn “A-Maizing” Corn Snack
6.18.08
Products: Original, BBQ, Jalapeno, and Gourmet Cheddar Flavors
What is Glad Corn?
What started as a Corn Ethanol experiment in the kitchen of Stan Friesen turned out to be what could become America’s next great snack food. The best description we can come up with is a mixture between regular pop corn, and Corn Nuts.
Packaging/Labeling: Glad Corn is available in 2 sizes for each of their 4 flavors with brightly colored, high-quality, thick bags. We agreed that the packaging allows Glad Corn to be a good fit for any type of store; upscale gourmet food stores, mass market retailers, and convenience stores.
Taste/Consistency/Quality: What makes this product so amazing and unique is the hybrid texture of the products. It’s not quite as soft as traditional popcorn (although some kernels are), yet not as hard on the teeth as a product like Corn Nuts. Somehow with their secret process, Glad Corn has created a delicious combination of fluffy-crunchy goodness that is sure to crave the greatest of salty-snack cravings.
We found the Gourmet Cheddar and Jalapeno flavors to be our favorite with not too much of an over-salty or artificial-flavor taste. The jalapeno provided a nice, mildly-spicy kick, but not so much as to scare off those afraid of burnt taste buds and heartburn. The Gourmet Cheddar hit a home run with a perfect cheese taste that so many snack companies go overboard with, thus drowning out the flavor of the snack’s base itself.
Best of all, when eating Glad Corn, we didn’t get the guilty feeling of eating 2 weeks’ worth of butter or oil that you’d get in popcorn and the dehydrated-thirsty-mouth sensation that comes with too much salt/sodium intake.
Uniqueness: When you think of corn snacks, instantly Corn Nuts, popcorn, and Fritos chips come to mind - and Glad Corn is a nice breath of fresh air in comparison. Never before have we experienced such a pleasant hybrid combination of fluffy and crunchy in a snack food as we did with Glad Corn. We can, with confidence, say that there is nothing else like Glad Corn on the market right now.
Summary: Glad Corn gets our “Snack Food Innovator” nomination for surprising us with a must-have snack product that really brings a smile to your ‘sick-of-the-same-old-stuff’, snack-hungry face.
How to purchase: Consumers can order directly online at www.GladCorn.com, www.iBuyGourmet.com, or in several retail location which can be found at Glad Corn’s website.