Pirate's Booty is a puffed corn and rice snack food developed and produced in 1987[1] by Robert Ehrlich. B&G Foods acquired Robert's American Gourmet Food in June 2013.[2] In 2018, B&G Foods sold the brands to The Hershey Company.
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."[3] Ehrlich then went on to found a snack brand known as Vegan Rob's, which makes cheese puffs with no cheese in them.[4]
Ingredients
The snack is made with corn meal, rice, and cheddar cheese.
Owner
Pirate Brands is owned and operated by the Hershey Salty Snacks Company, a Hershey company.[5]
Recall
On June 29, 2007, Robert's American Gourmet recalled their Veggie Booty brand snack food due to salmonella contamination.[6]
See also
- Cheese puffs
- Cheetos
- Cheez Doodles
- Robert's American Gourmet
External links
References
- Pirate's Brands Products: Pirate's Booty Gluten-Free Healthy Kids Snacks Pirate's Booty, retrieved 2022-02-23^
- BG Foods Acquisition of Pirate Brands, Including Pirate's Booty^
- Rutland Herald: "Does organic label mean it's better for us?" Liz Kim, 22 November 2006. URL accessed 28 December 2006.^
- Vegan Rob's retrieved 18 April 2019^
- Amplify Snack Brands – Snacking Without Compromise® Amplify^
- Reuters. "FDA recalls Veggie Booty snacks" 29 June 2007. URL accessed 29 June 2007.^