Pirate's Booty is a puffed rice and corn
snack food
A snack is a small portion of food generally Eating, eaten between meals. Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged snack foods and other processed foods, as well as items made from fresh ingredients at home.
Traditionally, snack ...
developed and produced in 1987 by
Robert Ehrlich.
B&G Foods
B&G Foods is an American branded foods holding company based in Parsippany, New Jersey. The company was formed in 1996 to acquire Bloch & Guggenheimer, a Manhattan-based producer of pickles, relish and condiments which had been founded in 1889.
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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
Cornmeal is a meal (coarse flour) or a cell membrane ground from dried corn. It is a common staple food, and is ground to coarse, medium, and fine consistencies, but not as fine as wheat flour can be.Herbst, Sharon, ''Food Lover's Companion'', ...
,
rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima
''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...
and
cheddar cheese
Cheddar cheese (or simply cheddar) is a natural cheese that is relatively hard, off-white (or orange if colourings such as annatto are added), and sometimes sharp-tasting. Cheddar originates from the English village of Cheddar in Somerset.
Ched ...
.
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
''Salmonella'' is a genus of rod-shaped (bacillus) Gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae. The two species of ''Salmonella'' are ''Salmonella enterica'' and ''Salmonella bongori''. ''S. enterica'' is the type species and is fur ...
contamination.
[''Reuters.']
"FDA recalls Veggie Booty snacks"
29 June 2007. URL accessed 29 June 2007.
See also
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Cheese puffs
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Cheetos
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Cheez Doodles
Cheez Doodles are a cheese puff produced by Wise Foods. Originally developed and manufactured in 1964 by King Kone Corp. of the Bronx, New York, it became the prevalent cheese puff snack on the East Coast.
Description
Cheez Doodles are a chees ...
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Robert's American Gourmet
Robert's American Gourmet Food was a snack food company located in the United States. Founded by businessman Robert Ehrlich in 1986, the company was best known for its snack food, Pirate's Booty, which is found in over 90% of United States sup ...
References
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External links
Pirate's Booty's Official Website
Brand name snack foods
Products introduced in 1987
American snack foods
Popcorn brands