Smartfood
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Search complete. 17 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Smartfood".
Sep 17, 2026
Laurie LewisGUEST
It took me a while to re- re- remember mine.
Laurie LewisGUEST
You know, like Smart, Smart Food popcorn.
Laurie LewisGUEST
You can't just have, like, a few little-
Gin StephensHOST
No
Danny RabinowitzHOST
the public.
Zach GelbGUEST
Is that Smartfood, or is that-
Danny RabinowitzHOST
That, yeah.
Zach GelbGUEST
Yeah.
Danny RabinowitzHOST
... uh, Publix.
Zach GelbGUEST
Is that Smartfood or is that...
Danny RabinowitzHOST
That...
Danny RabinowitzHOST
Yeah.
Marisa PinsonHOST
So everyone's kind of talking about in this natural food kind of community about this white cheddar popcorn that's taken the city by storm.
Marisa PinsonHOST
After a year of selling their apartment, she and Andrew bring in Ken Myers as a business partner and they formally launch Smartfood in 1985.
Jon GloverHOST
I didn't know that.
Jon GloverHOST
Smart food.
Marisa PinsonHOST
He told a magazine.
Marisa PinsonHOST
This is a quote from him.
Marisa PinsonHOST
I have never, never seen a snack food item catch on like Smartfood has.
Marisa PinsonHOST
So he said this in 1988.
Kathleen MadiganHOST
Mm.
Kathleen MadiganHOST
The two of them should get, get a thing of popcorn and sit down.
Kathleen MadiganHOST
All right.
Kathleen MadiganHOST
Let's call Amy 'cause she's gonna tell us, um, uh, about a capsule, and she went to Old Navy.
Tess MenziesHOST
A little salty, a little sweet.
Natasha VinikHOST
I, uh, I would pick Smartfood popcorn.
Tess MenziesHOST
Okay.
Natasha VinikHOST
Just 'cause you get that cheese at least.
Darren AlpertAUDIENCE
Well, it's kind of just in my own head.
Darren AlpertAUDIENCE
It's like you look at Skinny Pop and you look at Smartfood and obviously Lesser Evil, but Skinny Pop and Smartfood do about a billion dollars combined just in those brands.
Darren AlpertAUDIENCE
And we're 30% less calorie, 60% less fat than Skinny Pop and we're organic so like there's a lot of reasons to switch
Ben GoodwinGUEST
is that front and center on not versus skinny pop but is yeah yeah kind of the reason why i ask is because you have to think about the order of operations of consumer motivation So you'll typically get kind of price at the top ish, but that's always like a value to dollar ratio.
SamHOST
Oh, yeah, fourth.
SamHOST
I'm going to go with Smart Food Popcorn.
SamHOST
Oh, that's good.
SamHOST
The white cheddar Smart Food Popcorn.
JoshHOST
That's really universal to a lot of people like that.
JoshHOST
I think so.
JoshHOST
Wow.
JoshHOST
You've got the Flavor Blast Goldfish.