FREE POPCORN

At Outer Banks Popcorn Shoppe, indulge to your heart’s content in glorious popcorn. This family-owned shop makes a wide variety of popcorn flavors to entice you into becoming a major fan. They use quality corn and fresh ingredients including real butter and fine chocolate. With over 20 flavors made fresh daily, you might want to sample a few – yes they offer free samples – before deciding on which to take home. Flavors range from the trusty buttered popcorn, caramel and white cheddar to Old Bay and watermelon.

Outer Banks Popcorn is dedicated to freshness and makes all popcorn in small batches. They hand bag it the same day in a humidity-controlled store to ensure long lasting freshness. You can order popcorn in specialty bags to use as party favors for birthdays or other occasions. Check out their flavors at the shop or online at outerbankspopcornshoppe.com. While this is a seasonal shop, they do offer online shopping when it closes!   

Popcorn Tins

Choose your favorite tins for the holidays, your favorite sports team, birthdays and events! You can mongram your buckets too!

Select from 1, 2, 3 gallon tins and even personalize party favors with a variety of delicious flavors. Our lunchbox tins are great for collecting, a special event and birthday parties!

Corporate Gifts

Are you looking to WOW your clients with a custom thank you gift? We've got the perfect thing! A custom tin of gourmet popcorn with a custom corporate sticker designed just for your organization. These personalized business gifts are unique and created individually for your business. These premium corporate gifts will keep everyone talking about your company's excellence and personal touch. You can pick the tin size, the flavor of gourmet popcorn, and send us your company logo to create a custom sticker just for you.

 

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SPECIAL PROFILE——

A Passion For Popcorn

Great Things are Popping at Outer Banks Popcorn Shoppe

Things are popping all along the Outer Banks, especially (and literally) at Outer Banks Popcorn Shoppe. Owner Ted Jagucki is elevating the popcorn game with his made from scratch small-batch offerings in a variety of unique and mouth watering flavors.

Ted moved from northern Ohio to the Outer Banks in 2004. “I saw a need for locally-made snacks and no one was producing and selling gourmet popcorn here yet.” He grew up loving popcorn, and has always loved to cook, experiment and create in the kitchen. “We focus on taking raw ingredients and turning them into excellent flavor combinations for our customers. That’s why we cook onsite in each of our stores.”

 They ship their delicious popcorn to anywhere in the United States with their online shopping platform and also help organizations fundraise for causes locally and nationwide.

Running a business for that long is no easy feat. Jagucki attributes the success of the Popcorn Shoppe to the loyal returning customers each year. “We try to offer an experience when you are in our stores. People are surprised by our generous samples and variety of more than 20 flavors”.

When a customer walks into Outer Banks Popcorn Shoppe, their senses are immediately met with the smell of rich buttery caramel and candy coated delights. That tantalizing caramel recipe is used to create many of their delicious flavors. Their best sellers are Drizzle–a caramel popcorn drizzled with white and milk chocolate—and Corolla Crunch, which perfectly pairs their homemade caramel with candied almonds and cashews.

While the comforts of caramel are tempting, Outer Banks Popcorn Shoppe also has an array of one-of-a-kind flavors, including dill, bacon-n-cheese, jalapeno cheddar, and even watermelon, as well as a Flavor of the Month and seasonal flavors.

“That’s the fun part. A lot of people are like, ‘I’ve never seen or heard of anything like this. How do you have all these different flavors of popcorn?’ People are sort of blown away.”

 

DUCK
Scarborough Lane Shoppes
1171-D5 Duck Rd Duck, NC 27949

 

Big Buck's Homemade Ice Cream

Serving our customers on the Outer Banks since 1994, Big Buck's ice Cream is dedicated serving you “The Best.” We offer a full line of super-premium ice cream products, smoothies, chocolates, and custom-made ice cream cakes! 2 locations are open all year: Duck  and Manteo, at The Waterfront Shops.

 

We offer a full line of Espresso Drinks from Hot Vanilla Cappuccinos and Hot Chocolate to Iced Caramel Lattes & Frozen Mochas, all made to order. Big Buck’s fresh fruit smoothies are lactose-free and made to order. Also offering lactose-free sorbets made from the best fruits available. Old time favorites are sure to please! Choose from a delicious collection of milkshakes, sundaes and banana splits.

 

Savor the moment with our Homemade Chocolate! Chocolates are made daily in each location. We offer a large selection from Dark to Milk to White. Milk Chocolate Oreos & Almond Toffee, Dark Chocolate Berries and Cherries Clusters & Hand-dipped Peppermint Patties with a Drizzle of White Chocolate, Extra-Dark Sea Salt Caramels & our famous homemade caramel chocolate pretzels oh & don’t forget the ever-popular caramel pecan turtle, just to name a few treats!

 

Belinda Pleva grew up serving ice cream out of her parent’s shop. She loved being part of what she calls “a happy business.” “I love it when people come into the shop and you hand them something, and it makes them smile,” Pleva says. “That moment when you hand an ice cream cone over to a little kid and their eyes just light up. That’s what I love about the ice cream business.”

 

In 1994, Pleva opened up her own ice cream and chocolate shop, Big Buck’s Ice Cream, in the brand-new Timbuk II Shopping Center in Corolla. Business was good, but something was missing.

 

“I was never satisfied with the ingredients in the ice creams and chocolates you could purchase back then. I wanted to serve my customers delicious flavors with ingredients they could actually pronounce,” Pleva says.

 

Pleva took a trip to Italy to study the gelaterias. She fell in love with the incredible flavors, and when she returned home to the Outer Banks, she began working tirelessly to perfect the flavors in her own ice cream.

 

Big Buck’s homemade ice cream combined the flavors of the Italian gelaterias and the richness of American ice cream. It quickly became a tourist favorite. After having the same unsatisfactory experience with the readymade chocolates she was selling, she also took a trip to Brussels to learn more about making handmade chocolates. Pleva brought the chocolate-making experience right back with her, and the result was the finest quality of chocolates on the Outer Banks.

 

After her huge success in the Corolla shop, Pleva was able to open up three more shops—one in Kitty Hawk, one in Manteo and one in Duck.

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