All Hail BjornQorn, the (Still) Reigning King of BA ’s Office Snack Table
This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to our very opinionated editors’ favorite things to eat, drink, and buy.
In a surprise to exactly nobody, the BA office has a pretty spectacular snack selection. Our snack table—what, your office doesn’t have a designated area?—offers up everything from souvenir seedy rye loaves to Test Kitchen treats, but nothing causes a stir quite like BjornQorn.
Made by a Minnesota corn farmer’s son named Bjorn and his liberal arts school roommate (truly, you can’t make this up), BjornQorn is popcorn that’s been popped with solar power and liberally (see what I did there?) dusted with nutty-salty nutritional yeast like some sort of healthyish—but no less potent—Dorito dust. Carla Lalli Music—who’s basically the patron saint of making your own stovetop popcorn—says BjornQorn is the only packaged popcorn worth buying. It even scored a mention in our 2018 food yearbook, a rhapsodic compilation of the best things we ate that year. (And yes, true to form, the PDX/Silver Lake set has long loved it too.)
Even after a solid year of showing up in the office, BjornQorn still reigns supreme in our hearts and stomachs, probably because it’s impossible to stop eating after a single handful. I’ve attempted to mimic the stuff at home, armed with a packet of microwavable popcorn and a jar of Bragg’s nutritional yeast, but it just doesn’t compare.
The cult status of BjornQorn makes it perfect for picnics, parties, and surreptitious movie theater snacks, which is why I hoard bags at my desk. Still, it’s rare they ever leave the premises. It doesn’t even have to be on the snack table—if someone spots that cheerful yellow logo peaking out of my tote bag, it’s as good as gone.
Buy it: BjornQorn, $43 for a dozen 3 oz. bags
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