Movie experience at theatres is incomplete without munching down fistful of popcorns.
Today popcorn has become a worldwide identity, but you would be surprised to know that about 4000 years ago, popcorn was not eaten but used as decoration. The story behind this is very interesting.
You would be surprised to know that the first natives of America ate popcorn. However later Europeans living there also started eating it.
The first popcorn machine in the world was made 134 years ago i.e. in the year 1885. This machine was made by Charles Cretors. However, at that time he was making a machine to roast peanuts, which later became a popcorn machine.
According to a BBC report, historian Andrew Smith writes that Charles Crater and his assistants took their popcorn roasting machine to the World Fair of 1893. There, he would both make a sound and invite people to taste popcorn and promised to give a bag of popcorn for free. Today Charles Crater’s company is the largest popcorn machine manufacturer in the US.
Popcorn is said to have been discovered in New Mexico about 4000 years ago. Small heads of popcorn were found deep in a dry cave known as the ‘Bat Cave’. This discovery was made by Herbert Dick and Earle Smith in 1948. Carbon dating dates these kernels to be approximately 5,600 years old.
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