How did the popcorn invented?

Answer 1

Don't you mean "How was popcorn invented?"

As it turns out, folks have been popping corn for thousands of years!

In fact, archeologists discovered some very stale popcorn in New Mexico that was about 4,000 years old! Even with extra butter that would still be pretty chewy. Popcorn was very important to the Aztecs, who not only ate it but used it as decoration in their religious ceremonies.

And during World War II, when sugar was rationed in the U.S., popcorn became a popular substitute for candy.

The oldest ears of popcorn ever found were discovered in the Bat Cave (a site known to have been occupied by cave dwellers practicing primitive agriculture three thousand years ago) of west central New Mexico in 1948 and 1950 by anthropologist Herbert Dick and botanist Earle Smith, Harvard graduate students.

They discovered layers of trash, garbage, and excrement, which had accumulated over two thousand years.

In the trash were 766 specimens of shelled cobs, 125 loose kernels, 8 pieces of husks, 10 of leaf sheath, and 5 of tassels and tassel fragments.

The deeper they dug, the smaller and more primitive the cobs, until they reached bottom and found tiny cobs of popcorn in which each kernel was enclosed in its own husk.

Among those prehistoric kernels, they found six that were partly or completely popped. These grains have been so well preserved that they would still pop. In fact, they took a few unpopped kernels and dropped them into a little hot oil to prove that they could still pop.

They have been carbon dated to be about 5,600 years old.

The first popcorn machine was invented by Charles Cretors of Chicago, Illinois in 1885.

In order to test his machine, it was necessary for Charles to operate it on the street as the customer.

He was issued a peddler’s license to use the machine on December 2, 1885. Until then, poppers were made to sit in front of stores to attract attention.

The huge, ponderous popcorn machine with its gasoline burner became a familiar part of the scent. Street vendors used to follow crowds around, pushing steam or gas-powered poppers through fairs, parks, and expositions. This practice continued up until the Depression years (1929-1939).

Today much of the popcorn you buy at movies and fairs is popped in poppers made by the Cretors family.

Hope this answers your question.

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Answer 2

Popcorn or popping corn is a type of maize which puffs up when it is heated in oil or by dry heat. Special varieties of corn are grown to give improved popping yield. Some wild types will pop, but the cultivated strain is Zea mays subsp. mays, which is a special kind of flint corn. In 1948, popcorn ears dating back 5,600-years were discovered in bat caves in New Mexico.[1] Popcorn was first formally developed by Native Americans thousands of years ago.[1]

History
Popcorn was introduced to the Europeans in the late 15th century when Christopher Columbus noted that the Native Americans made popcorn corsages and popcorn headdresses which they sold to Columbus' sailors. French explorers, around the year 1612, in the Great Lakes region documented use of popcorn by the Iroquois who popped corn in pottery using hot sand. They also reported that during an Iroquois dinner, popcorn soup and popcorn beer were consumed.[1] By the late 19th century, popcorn was being sold in the United States commercially.[1]

Popcorn has become a popular snack food all over the world.

How popcorn pops
As with all cereal grains, each kernel of popcorn contains a certain amount of moisture in its starchy endosperm. Unlike most other grains, the outer hull, or pericarp, of the popcorn kernel is thick and impervious to moisture.

As the kernel is heated past the boiling point, water in the kernel begins to turn to steam, generating an internal pressure of about 9 atm. In kernels of other grains (and in damaged kernels of popcorn), this steam escapes as fast as it forms, but in the tightly sealed popcorn kernel, the steam is held tight by the pericarp and the pressure starts to build until the pericarp suddenly ruptures, causing a small explosion. The force of the explosion turns the kernel inside out. More importantly, because the moisture is evenly distributed throughout the starchy endosperm, the sudden expansion turns the endosperm into an airy foam which gives popcorn its unique texture.

Two explanations exist for kernels which do not pop, known in the popcorn industry as "old maids," after being exposed to high temperatures. The first is that unpopped kernels do not have enough moisture to create enough steam for an explosion. The second explanation, according to research led by Dr. Bruce Hamaker of Purdue University, is that the unpopped kernel may have a leaky hull.

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Answer 3

Orville met an Indian called Reddenbokker and the rest is history.

Answer 4

the indians dropped some dried corn into the fire and it started popping. They had very little food so they started eating it and it was good.

Answer 5

pop the corn

Answer 6

it scared the hell out of the indians when it first popped