Diet Food Reviews
Robert's American Gourmet Pirate's Booty
By: | Dec 31, 2008
Because I enjoy continuous eating, snacks consisting of multiple small, low calorie pieces are more preferable to heavy snacks so that I can eat a lot at a time. When I first saw this bag of Robert's American Gourmet Pirate's Booty, I was confused by what the contents were but curious about the lower caloric content compared to typical potato chips.
The bag says that the Robert's American Gourmet Pirate's Booty "puffed rice and corn" is flavored "with aged white cheddar," a flavoring that is reminiscent of popcorn. Upon opening the bag, I indeed found little pieces of puffed rice and corn shaped like popcorn but slightly larger. The white cheddar flavor fit well, and each bite had a nice soft crunch. The folks at Taquitos Snacks say that they could easily devour an entire bag in one sitting, and while I liked it too - I wouldn't go that far.
One serving is 1 ounce which provides 130 calories, 5 grams of total fat, 1 gram of which is saturated (8% and 2% of the recommended daily amount), 150 milligrams sodium (6% of the RDA), 2 grams of protein and 18 grams of carbohydrates, which includes 1 gram dietary fiber and no sugar. They are also "All Natural" as stated on the packaging.
I paid $2.00 for a 4 ounce bag at Whole Foods, and it's also available online at Amazon.com
Baked Cheetos have much the same nutritional stats, but the ingredients are vastly different, with Pirate's Booty being much shorter and no MSG.
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Pirates Booty is one of my favorite all time snacks - even my kids love it.
Does it keep well after opening, of does it turn stale quickly?
I love Pirates Booty! You can find it at Trader Joes for quite cheap!
And to answer Wolf Goettin--it keeps pretty well, I think.
I was just thinking about this stuff today!
Do you guys remember when The Rosie O'Donnell show? Well, she used to do Weight Watchers so every day, she'd talk about some cool new food/exercise/whatevs that she had found out about. And anyway, Pirate Booty was one of those products one day and you know, she made a big deal out of it and gave the audience free bags, talked about it more than 1 episode...because it was like 0 or 1 points. Something REALLY low. So everybody loved it. But THEN it turned out that the nutriional info was off by like 60 calories or something big. Anyway, and I just happened to be thinking about that today so it's weird to see this posted.
(And I might have gotten the details wrong on that, it was a million years ago and I was 12 when I was watching it!!)