popcorn

     

Popcorn or popping corn is a type of corn which exploes from the kernel and puffs up when heated. Special varieties are grown to give improved popping yield. Some wild types will pop, but the cultivated strain is Zea mays averta, which is a special kind of flint corn. The process of making popcorn was first discovered by aboriginal Americans thousands of years ago.

Trivia about popcorn

  • The book "Fashionable Food" tells how to make a "truly awful" salad with a banana & this cinema snack
  • Heloise likes to sprinkle taco seasoning or dry salad dressing over this cinema snack
  • This snack is healthiest when prepared in a hot-air popper
  • Jolly Time was the first brand name of this snack food
  • This Indiana town shares its name with a popular theater snack reportedly given to the Pilgrims by the Indians
  • 5600-year-old samples of this "movie treat" have been found in New Mexico caves
  • 5,000-year-old remnants of this snack have been found in a cave in the Southwest
  • Pilgrims enjoyed this popped snack, even though there were no Pilgrim movie theaters
  • The strength of the outer part of a kernel of this determines if it's a nice fluffy one or a crunchy "old maid"
  • In 2003 Illinois named this its official state snack; Orville Redenbacher would approve
  • Pass around a tub of this flavor, "buttered", of course
  • Maple syrup or molasses can be used to form sticky balls of this puffy snack food
  • Heloise sprinkles dry salad dressing mix on this movie theater treat; we suggest she try butter
  • Act II claims it sells more bags of this microwavable snack than any other company in the world
  • Logically enough, brands of this snack favorite include Jiffy Pop & Pop Secret
  • Favorite movie munch, introduced to the Pilgrims by the Indians
  • In 1914, 1-pound cartons of this product came on the market under the brand name Jolly Time
  • Call Orville Redenbacher: there are roses called this & "gourmet" this
  • When heated, the moisture turns to steam & explodes the shell, turning this snack inside out
  • The book "Fashionable Food" says the worst salad of the 1920s contained bananas & this movie theatre snack
  • A popular Louisiana appetizer, crawfish tails that have been shelled, battered & deep-fried are called Cajun this

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