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'''Kat Saka's Kettle''' is a popcorn stand in the marketplace of Black Spire Outpost, in [[Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge]] at [[Disneyland Park]] in the [[Disneyland Resort]], California. It opened on May 31, 2019, the opening day of the land at Disneyland, and sells the Outpost Mix, a sweet, savoury and spicy popcorn that is presented in the land's story as popped grains native to the planet Batuu.<ref name="dfb-live">{{cite web |title=We're LIVE at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in Disneyland! |publisher=Disney Food Blog |url=https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2019/05/29/were-live-at-star-wars-galaxys-edge-in-disneyland/}}</ref>

== History ==
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge opened at Disneyland on May 31, 2019, after a reservation-only preview period that ran through June 23; an identical land followed at Walt Disney World on August 29, 2019, with its own Kat Saka's Kettle.<ref name="dfb-live" /> The stand was part of the land's food and beverage line-up from the start, alongside Oga's Cantina, Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo, Ronto Roasters and the Milk Stand, and was previewed in Disney's food announcements in the months before opening, when concept art of the stall was released in April 2019.<ref name="dis">{{cite web |title=Kat Saka's Kettle |publisher=The DIS |url=https://www.wdwinfo.com/tag/kat-sakas-kettle/}}</ref>

Where most Disney popcorn carts sell a single buttered product from a standard cart, Kat Saka's Kettle was designed as a permanent marketplace stall selling a flavour developed specifically for Batuu, so that even a bag of popcorn would not break the land's rule that everything in it belongs to the Star Wars setting.

== Setting ==
In the land's backstory, the stall is run by Kat Saka, a grain merchant of Black Spire Outpost whose family farms the grain that the kettle pops — Disney's own opening descriptions introduce the stand exactly that way, as the food stall of "grain merchant Kat Saka" in the outpost marketplace.<ref name="mainstreetmouse">{{cite web |title=Sip and Savor Intergalactic Food & Beverage at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge |publisher=The Main Street Mouse |url=https://themainstreetmouse.com/2019/08/01/sip-and-savor-intergalactic-food-beverage-at-star-wars-galaxys-edge-at-walt-disney-world-resort-opening-august-29/}}</ref> Kat Saka herself is a figure of the outpost's invented local life rather than a film character, and the stall trades under her name in the marketplace alongside the land's other small vendors.

The stall sits in the covered market street of Black Spire Outpost, near Ronto Roasters. Its centrepiece is the kettle itself, and the product is described to guests not as popcorn but as popped grains, keeping everyday theme-park vocabulary out of the transaction in the same way the whole land avoids contemporary branding — with one deliberate exception: the stand has also been a sales point for the round, specially bottled Coca-Cola drinks created for Galaxy's Edge.<ref name="dfb-live" />

== Cuisine ==
The stand's single signature product is the Outpost Mix, also called the Outpost Popcorn Mix. It combines sweet, savoury and spicy flavours in one batch, and uses a mushroom-style popped kernel rather than the butterfly shape of ordinary cinema popcorn, giving it a rounder, denser bite; tasters at opening described berry, citrus and cake-like sweetness against a background of chilli heat.<ref name="mainstreetmouse" /> The mix's bright, uneven colouring is part of the point — it reads as an alien grain product rather than a familiar snack dyed for effect.

The menu around that core item has stayed deliberately small. Plain buttered popcorn has been offered alongside the mix at times, seasonal variations of flavoured popcorn have appeared for limited runs, and bottled drinks are sold from the stall. But the Outpost Mix remains the reason the stand exists, and it is the version of Disney popcorn most closely identified with a single land: a snack designed to be eaten while walking the market, bought from a named local merchant rather than a cart.

== See also ==
* [[Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge]]
* [[Oga's Cantina]]
* [[Ronto Roasters]]
* [[Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo]]

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