Pirate's Booty is a puffed rice and corn
snack food developed and produced in 1987 by
Robert Ehrlich
Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. (born November 25, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican, Ehrlich represented Maryland's 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House ...
.
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. ...
acquired
Robert's American Gourmet Food in June 2013.
Ehrlich would often watch people purchasing
cheese puffs
Cheese puffs, cheese curls, cheese balls, cheese ball puffs, cheesy puffs, or corn curls are a puffed corn snack, coated with a mixture of cheese or cheese-flavored powders. They are manufactured by extruding heated corn dough through a die th ...
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
Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and '' Porteresia'', both wild and domesticat ...
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 June 2007.
See also
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Cheese puffs
Cheese puffs, cheese curls, cheese balls, cheese ball puffs, cheesy puffs, or corn curls are a puffed corn snack, coated with a mixture of cheese or cheese-flavored powders. They are manufactured by extruding heated corn dough through a die th ...
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Cheetos
Cheetos (formerly styled as Chee-tos until 1998) is a crunchy corn puff snack brand made by Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo. Fritos creator Charles Elmer Doolin invented Cheetos in 1948, and began national distribution in the U.S. The initi ...
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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 c ...
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Robert's American Gourmet
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