Popcorn salt! (Denver, Aurora, Southglenn: cost, club, mall)

[suzco]

Originally Posted by Quietude

It's a conspiracy! They're all out to make me eat bland popcorn!

I've been thinking, maybe all of us who've suddenly gone looking for it and asking for it will make some store here think there's a demand and start stocking it!

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by suzco

I've been thinking, maybe all of us who've suddenly gone looking for it and asking for it will make some store here think there's a demand and start stocking it!

There's an old joke about this. "By god, if people want ping-pong balls, I'm stocking ping-pong balls!"

[BarryK123]

Originally Posted by Quietude

It's a conspiracy! They're all out to make me eat bland popcorn!

It's the movie theaters. They want to make you pay $7 for a small container of popcorn!

[Quietude]

Holy Kow.

This was supposed to be a minor item on my grocery list, so that I could go to a tasty low-calorie evening snack. It managed to brat-slap me around pretty good.

Besides the search and travails here, I finally went to Amazon (waiting for enough small needed things to bother with an order). Guess what: they have it, but only at what I think are extreme prices. A pound of gourmet, paleo-friendly stuff from this seller, one or two pound cans of Mortons from that seller, two of the little shaker cans from another, and all in the $10-12 range. Crazy.

So I decide to take the very good advice above and make my own (coarse kosher salt and Cuisinart at hand)... and want a nice fine-grain or powdered-sugar shaker to keep it in. Guess what: if there's a powdered shaker on Amazon that doesn't have believable quality warnings in the reviews, I couldn't find it. At least, not up to the $12-15 price range. Cheap, break, flimsy, lid falls off, and several that have lids Hercules can't get the lid off.

So I give up. I'll grind my own, use a regular stainless kitchen shaker (of which I have a couple) and very worst case fit it with a fine stainless screen to control shaking if my hand isn't steady enough not to oversalt.

Unbelievable. I should have just stayed with rocky road.

Or copped the little shaker from the shelf when I left CT...

[BarryK123]

Let us know how it goes, though I don't have a food processor.

BTW, for another data point of it not being available, I was in Whole Foods recently, looked there, and they didn't have it either.

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by BarryK123

Let us know how it goes, though I don't have a food processor.

BTW, for another data point of it not being available, I was in Whole Foods recently, looked there, and they didn't have it either.

It really seems to be something that's disappeared from the shelves, probably in the face of microwave bags and then the (awful) (useless) (higher profit) flavorings. (Gosh, super-butter and cheese flavor in a shaker, Martha. Whoda thunk!)

But, in the mere minutes since my last post...

I haz freakin' powdered salt for mah popcorn!

The food processor was so-so, turning the coarse kernels into 1/3 powder and about 2/3 standard table grains. So I dumped that in my coffee grinder and... voilá! It took me longer to clean the coffee dust out, then carefully clean all the salt dust out, than to actually end up with about six heaping tablespoons of powdered popcorn salt. I got it now; it's a two-minute process, mostly cleanup.

And further WIN!, I found my one unused shaker can - and it was unused because it was too small for most of the stuff I keep that way *and* had a selection of normal or tiny holes that I found frustrating with grain- and flake-sized stuff. I would have gotten rid of it long ago were it not so well made.

Sometimes the win is right under your nose, so to speak... but I would have been just as happy had I been able to toss a $3 shaker can in my cart sometime in the past few weeks.

So shove that up your big data, evil tracking-driven grocers of the republic! Nyah!

[Quietude]

...but I've pretty much had to give up on boysenberry jam, which apparently is not sold east of the Sierra. Checked it on Amazon, and instead of $4-5 a jar in a multipack, it's over $10 no matter the maker or quantity. Sigh.

[emm74]

Glad you got the salt to work!

Originally Posted by Quietude

...but I've pretty much had to give up on boysenberry jam, which apparently is not sold east of the Sierra. Checked it on Amazon, and instead of $4-5 a jar in a multipack, it's over $10 no matter the maker or quantity. Sigh.

Have you tried Trader Joe's? or Cost Plus World Market?

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by emm74

Glad you got the salt to work!

Insert some tired joke about the salt mines here.

Thanks for the suggestion, though!

Have you tried Trader Joe's? or Cost Plus World Market?

Rarely hit the more exotic groceries but have not found boysenberry jam in either in previous trips.

I never realized what a regional product it was - California stores rarely had fewer than two brands (Smuckers, Knott's, and often a gourmet variety or two); it was nonexistent in CT and I am dismayed to find it just as scarce here. Certainly not any kind of shipping, availability or season issue, not with Smuckers at least.

Sigh. Green chile only makes up for soooo much.

[davebarnes]

We buy jam from https://www.monasterygreetings.com/p...nal-Selections
We buy a case at a time to keep shipping costs down.
The raspberry is amazing.