Local Popcorn business headed to Food Network

You don’t know what’s “poppin” until you’ve tried “A Pop Above Kettle Corn.”

For the last six years, “A Pop Above” has been serving all types of popcorn around Yuma County.

Hunter and Kelly Manzo,met in culinary school in Chicago. After school,they took their business and made their way to the west coast. Within a few years they found out what works in Yuma County-popcorn.

“We saw a need in Yuma for additional fresh snack food, something healthy and light, that people can eat at home or on the run.It meets a need in the area that is fresh and available that is made that day opposed to something that has been on the shelves, waiting for you to get it for the last three weeks,” Kelly says.

“A Pop Above” isn’t a regular popcorn business, they offer original flavors like kettle corn, caramel corn,and some flavors you’ve never heard of. Flavors like “Fruity Kernal Corn” inspired by Fruity Pebbles Cereal, and “Birthday Cake” popcorn which customers can’t get enough of.

Kelly explains why they offer so many flavors to their customers, “There’s a lot of natural flavors out there, that are all fantastic by themselves, but the more you play with flavors the better they will taste as they combine. So, for us it’s not just creating one flavor it’s figuring out to blend pieces together to approximate flavors in your mouth as you eat the whole hand full.”

Now the company is ready for the country to see them on the Food Network’s “Carnival Eats”. Kelly and Hunter are excited for what the future holds for their business.

“We get to be on food network’s carnival eats, showing what Yuma has to offer the world.From the culinary education and the love for food, popcorn has met it’s match- we can turn it into just about anything.”