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Two of the early-90s’ favorite things, microwave popcorn and spelling shit wrong, were brought together when Pop Secret popped out Pop Qwiz Popcorn for kids. In the 80s and 90s, there was every goddamn kind of microwave popcorn. There was cheese, extra cheese, dick cheese, caramel (Side note: I would always get in trouble for eating the caramel straight out of the caramel package. I was basically Little Chrissy from Pecker), butter, extra better, extra extra butter, drowning in butter, pool of butter with tiny bits of corn in it, etc.. etc… Pop Secret tried to get kids into microwave popcorn with Pop Qwiz Popcorn which came in a bunch of colors including yellow, blue, green and a mystery color.
The whole gimmick was that the color of the bag wasn’t the color of the popcorn. So you’d open up a yellow bag and the popcorn would be green inside. Your whole world would be turned upside/down and you’d lose pieces of your mind over getting green popcorn in a yellow bag. The surprise bag had a “surprise” color in it. I got purple once. That’s when I knew that magic was real.
And here’s the commercial. If you’re hungover, this isn’t going to help:
Pop Qwiz Popcorn was the best. It made children believe in magic (not really) and the commercial was hosted by a dude named Plato who looked like a rejected member of Mickey Mouse Club’s The Party. Indubitably!