I got a caramel corn jones recently and after having Perplexity Pro look into brands and reviews, I chose 5 to try out: 3 widely available (i.e. on Amazon with free shipping) and 2 "boutique" brands — Carroll's Caramel Corn and Berco's Popcorn — sold only by their makers and requiring additional shipping charges.
Below are my ratings, best to worse, along with prices:
1. Werther's Original Caramel Popcorn — $13.00 for 10 oz [$1.30/oz]
2. Popcornopolis Caramel Corn — $6.99 for 9.5 oz [$0.74/oz]
3. Carroll's Caramel Corn — (many large multiple-kernel clusters which I found annoying) $5 for 8 oz [$0.63/oz; additional cost for shipping]
4. Cretors Caramel Corn (huge chunks encompassing multiple pieces required significant physical force to break them down into edible sizes) — $9.99 for 8 oz [$1.25/oz]
5. Berco's Popcorn [self-proclaimed "Best Caramel Corn Ever," it has by far the most expensive and elegant packaging of them all] (same flaw as Cretor's but also way too much caramel; the only brand of the five with old maids (8 in one 8 oz bag!) — $20 for 32 oz — [$0.63/oz; additional cost for shipping]
Price/oz is proportional to quality with the exception of Cretor's, the second most expensive brand, which came in next to last.
Bottom line: After considering the not-insubstantial additional shipping costs for Carroll's and Berco's — as well as the fact that they were slowest to arrive compared to Amazon — I'm going with Werther's and Popcornopolis.
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