Adam Duvall is well on his way to becoming America’s newest pop star…well, I guess I should say popcorn star because he’s spending 2023 chewing his way through a year’s worth of popcorn.
If you’re a local sports fan, you’re probably familiar with Adam’s name and writing as he’s a veteran sports reporter for the Peoria Journal Star.
What’s the motivation for this salty and buttery journey? Click on this link or the picture above and read his explanation and more in an article he wrote for the Journal Star about his on-going year of popcorn earlier this year.
Today, we’re meeting Adam for his 250th day of chowing down popcorn and we’re headed out to Northwoods Mall to watch the Pope of Popcorn in action!
Here we are at the Northwoods Mall, let’s go inside and get ready to witness Adam’s 250th day of popcorn!
We’ll stay on the lower level and it’s just a short walk to our popcorn destination: Jane’s Sweet Addictions.
Jane Scott, who formerly was the owner of The Nut House, moved her operation out to the Northwoods Mall after the Nut House closed in downtown Peoria. In addition to a wide variety of candy and fresh roasted nuts, they have a large selection of freshly made popcorn here. I’m anxious to see what Adam is going to choose to sample and grade.
There’s two women working inside of this island of sweet and salty treats, let’s find out who they are!
That’s Mary on the left and Diana on the right.
They were very friendly and welcoming and told me to feel free to take some photos of this candy, nut and popcorn palace, so that’s exactly what I’m going to do!
As you can see they have a large inventory of candy that you can only purchase right here at Jane’s Sweet Addictions.
The fresh-roasted nuts are definitely an item you can only find here. They took the nutty machinery from the Nut House and brought it here and the nuts are roasted fresh daily on the premises.
Mary saw me drooling over them and gave me a handful and these are so delicious! If you’ve never had these you need to get out to the mall and try some out!
They also have fresh fudge and Diana told me that one thing that has exploded here in popularity is the Freeze Dried Candy. This is a new form of candy and it’s freeze-dried and as you can see is available in many unique and distinctive flavors.
They gave me a sample and it’s like nothing I’ve ever had before. It’s beyond description and you need to get over here and try it out!
But today we’re here for popcorn and Jane’s Sweet Addictions has plenty to choose from. They have traditional fresh-popped, buttered popcorn.
But there’s also…
A galaxy of different flavors of popcorn all of the freshly popped here at the store and hanging from the ceiling in plastic bags.
I grabbed a table at the side of this sweet and salty island in Northwoods Mall and before I knew it, the Prince of Popcorn, Adam Duvall was sitting there with me!
Great to see Adam and he had purchased popcorn for today and a few bags for further review after today!
He got a box of the traditional buttered popcorn for today’s 250th review and also purchased the White Cheddar, the Caramel Popcorn and Chow Chow mix.
I have links to his reviews of all four of these below. Just keep on scrolling!
There’s Adam transferring the buttered popcorn from the box into a more popcorn-friendly bag. Then he appears to be doing a mind-meld with the popcorn while studying it in the bag.
This guy is intense when it comes to popcorn, let me tell you!
Adam said that when the tour is over he is going to pick a favorite popcorn from his 365 day popcorn run. He said that right now he has a front-runner that all future popcorn will be judged by.
He told me that the marathon popcorn run has been easy and entertaining for him since he has such a love of popcorn and he thinks that he’s got no problem in finishing up this year-long popped-up trip.
He is hoping to come out with a book of his year of popcorn in 2024 and perhaps have a website and social media platforms to accompany it.
You can follow Adam on social media and read his daily popcorn photos and reviews by clicking these links and hitting the “follow” or “like” buttons: Adam on facecrack and Adam on Twitter…or X…or whatever it is!
I chose a bag of White Cheddar Maple Bacon popcorn to sample for today’s popcorn taste-testing tasting. Mmmm…bacon.
Here we are sampling our popcorn, Adam pointed out that his was made up of “mushroom kernels,” something I had never heard of. This guy knows his popcorn!
There he is sampling the traditional buttered popcorn from Jane’s Sweet Addictions and his Twitter review is posted below his photo. This particular popcorn got a decent “B” rating, with Adam’s only critique being that it could have been a tad saltier.
Here’s his reviews for the other flavors he bought and reviewed in the days following our meeting: White Cheddar, Caramel Popcorn and Chow Chow.
Great to see Adam and join him for the 250th day of this 365 popcorn marathon! We’ll be checking back in with him as the days get closer to the end of this popcorn journey!
Stay tuned and thanks to Adam for meeting up with us and sharing his salty and buttery popcorn thoughts and philosophy!
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