Today we bring you the latest installment of “I Can Munsell That.” The series where I get to Munsell something unusual for my own enjoyment and curiosity and share the results with you. In this edition we will be using the Munsell Soil Color Chart on a delicious snack that someone was so kind to make and contribute to the collective grad lounge snacks. What is it you ask? Maple, peanut, and bacon popcorn! You heard me right, that’s a sweet and salty popcorn mix.
This lovely snack has four main parts to examine: plain popcorn, glazed popcorn, glazed peanuts, and bacon. Due to different amounts of the maple glaze, there are an array of hues on the glazed items, so I will focus on what shade seems the most prominent. Let’s begin with the base of this, plain ol’ popcorn. It fits quite well with 9.5/N (white) on the white page. The glazed popcorn is where the issues of hues begin. To me, it looks around 10YR 4/6 (dark yellowish brown), side note the color depicted in the image is slightly different due to lighting but I note it like I see it. Then we have the peanuts which get fairly close to 10YR 6/8 (brownish yellow), almost a perfect match. Finally, we have the bacon which doesn’t have the best color match in a Munsell color chart (surprise!) but there’s a decent match. This specific bacon bit was around 10R 3/4 (dusky red).
plain popcorn
glazed popcorn
glazed peanuts
bacon
That’s all for today folks. Thank you for indulging me in my nonsense. Need more silliness? Want to know more about the Munsell color system? Click here or here to be redirected to my older posts on the subject. Or you can click here and see where the inspiration for this series came from.