Benugo Sweet & Salted Popcorn

A simple bag of popcorn and a simple flavour. And very nice too.

This Sweet & Salted flavour popcorn from Benugo combines quite a lot of rather plain, slightly salted corn puffs with rather fewer very sweet sugary kernels. It's a gentle combination that sneaks up on you. And, oh dear, you end up eating a bit more than you intended.

Lucky thing there's only 26g in this packet.

Benugo has a number of shops and cafés mostly in London but also in places like Luton Airport and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Where I bought this packet of popcorn. I had a great sausage inna bun at Luton Airport a couple of years ago. Delicious.

And they have their own brand of popcorn. Which, going around in a great big popcorn-shaped circle, we have here.

Not bad at all. Although quite a lot of the kernels are disappointingly small they still taste good.

And here are some photographs of the wonderful Tree Keep at Wysing Arts near Cambridge. It was built by the artist Ben Wilson who is now internationally known for his paintings on chewing gum. You can see other works by Ben Wilson here.

Pipers Crisp Co. Burrow Hill Cider Vinegar & Sea Salt

An absolutely superb crisp. I'm going to add these to my all-time favourites list. Always provided I can remember how.

At first sight these crisps from UK crispeteers Pipers are nothing to write home about: just normal crisps.

But the aroma is wonderfully crispy, the crunch is amazingly crunchy, and the taste is just divine. I do not think this flavour could be bettered. It is so much more fabulous than your average salt & vinegar crisp than you can possibly imagine. Run out and buy a packet now.

Even the Chef who doesn't like salt & vinegar as a flavour  was (relatively) enthusiastic. There really is no more to say.

A triumph of crisp engineering.

And the lovely green packet is a lovely green although not so bright as this scan would have you believe. More a soft 1940s green. What more could you want? Well, just one tiny thing; I've only ever seen Pipers crisps on sale at branches of Benugo. It means I have to make quite a trek (oh alright then - a short trip on the Northern Line) to buy them. But these are so wonderful I think it might be worth the effort.

I found this packet at Luton airport where Benugo also sold me a delicious toasted sausage inna bun with tomato sauce. Yum! What better way to prepare before taking an Easyjet flight to Geneva? (I'm so jet set.)

And thinking of sausage inna bun I can't help but think of Mr Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler of Ankh Morpork and his ghastly offerings created by the late lamented Sir Terry Pratchett. R.I.P. Terry and many thanks for hours and hours of entertainment and lots of laughing out loud.

Pipers Crisp Co. Anglsey Sea Salt

Superb.

Just lovely crisps. Yum!!

Nothing fancy when you open the packet; the aroma is nothing to write home about... but... then I took a bite.

What a fantastic taste. Very simple salt and fried potato. Nothing more. Delicious. Great crunch too. And together you get a wonderful crisp. What could be simpler and better than that?

You really don't need anything more than. Just a terrific taste and a great crunch. 10/10.

And I like the simple 40g blue packet too. It tells me that Anglesey Sea Salt is harvested each day from the Menai Strait and is Britain's only Protected Designation of Origin sea salt. What can I say? It's certainly very salty tasting salt.

I found a bag of Pipers Spicy Tomato crisps at Luton Airport a while ago. In fact it was March last year. How time flies.

Anyway, I think it might have been at Benugo (where I had a very tasty toasted bacon sandwich), because I found this bag at Benugo in the Great Court at the British Museum. Where I shared another tasty toasted sandwich with Noble Friend after taking in the amazing Assyrian sculptures.

And here's my new table lamp because I promised Betsy.