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Pirate's Booty
Pirate's Booty is a puffed rice and corn snack food developed and produced in 1987 by Robert Ehrlich (businessman), Robert Ehrlich. B&G Foods acquired Robert's American Gourmet Food in June 2013. Ehrlich would often watch people purchasing cheese puffs in a local supermarket. The snack, Ehrlich explained, did not have "any real cheese in them... most of the ingredients you couldn't even pronounce."''Rutland Herald''"Does organic label mean it's better for us? Liz Kim, 22 November 2006. URL accessed 28 December 2006. Ehrlich then went on to found a snack brand called Vegan Rob's, which makes cheese puffs with no cheese in them. The snack is made with corn meal, rice and cheddar cheese. Pirate Brands is owned and operated by Amplify Snack Brands, a Hershey company. Product recall On June 29, 2007, Robert's American Gourmet recalled their Veggie Booty brand snack food due to salmonella contamination.''Reuters.'"FDA recalls Veggie Booty snacks" 29 June 2007. URL accessed 29 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirate
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, vessels used for piracy are pirate ships. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilisations. Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Historic examples include the waters of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden, and the English Channel, whose geographic structures facilitated pirate attacks. The term ''piracy'' generally refers to maritime piracy, although the term has been generalized to refer to acts committed on land, in the air, on computer networks, and (in scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
