Popcorn can be flavored to taste like every food except itself—a quandary that has stymied philosophers for centuries. With today’s Groupon, your taste buds can savor the enigma: for $15, you get $30 worth of gourmet flavored popcorn from POPtions! online.

The discerning kernel connoisseur can choose from any of POPtions!'s tantalizing 2- or 3.5-gallon Pop du Jour and three-way combo tins. The popular Caramelt Nut ($60 for a two-gallon tin) begins with a fluffy canvas of caramel-coated popcorn blended with pecans before being crowned with a mop-top of dark chocolate from venerable French chocolatier Bissinger’s. Toasted Rav ($40 for two gallons), meanwhile, serves up a radical blend of secret spices, tomato flavoring, and parmesan cheese. For chocoholics requiring their decadent daily fix, Over the Top ($55 for two gallons) might send you into a choco-coma with popcorn cooked and coated in a caramel recipe, then drenched in Bissinger’s dark chocolate and chocofied a second time with a generous drizzling of white chocolate. Or explore the Cheese Lovers tin's fromage à trois of cheddar, Buffalo bleu, and chipotle cheddar ($40 for two gallons).

While a full POPtions! tin makes a scrumptious snack on football Sundays, and an empty one a particularly cruel Halloween gift, POPtions! can also cover the coming cavalcade of Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's, winter birthdays, and the biggest holiday of the year—National Take Your Father to Work Day. For no extra charge, POPtions! will customize your lid with occasion-specific messages such as "Happy Birthday!" and "Sorry, I thought your fuzzy hat was alive. Get well soon." To receive your POPtions! tins in time for holiday gifting, orders must be placed by December 8; after that date, Groupon orders cannot be placed until January 3, 2011, or later.

Reviews

Sauce magazine raves about POPtions! in this podcast, and eight Yelpers give 3.5 stars to the shop itself. Eighty-eight percent of Urbanspooners like it:

• I ended up purchasing a mix bag of pizza pop and del-i-cious. Both were very tasty. The pizza pop has a little zing to it, and the del-i-cious has a really delectable sweet to it. Yum! – Gene Y., Yelp
• I have had POPtions delivered to my home. I have tried caramel cheddar, Oreo crush, ranch, and gooey butter. Not only was the popcorn fresh, but EVERY flavor was delicious! – Lindsey H., Yelp