History
A specie of popcorn.
What is Zea mays everta?
Inside this seed, it is made of a hard dense starch with a little bit of water and oil.
What is the endosperm?
At the Columbian Expo in Chicago 1893, this inventor introduced the world's first mobile popcorn machine.
Who is Charles Cretors?
In the industry, there are two kinds of popcorn.
What are butterfly flakes and mushroom flakes?
This literally saved the movie theater business.
What is Popcorn?
Popcorn is perhaps oldest snack food known to man with evidence of popcorn being found in this landform in Western New Mexico dating back to 3600 BC.
What is the "bat cave"?
Unlike most grains, the popcorn kernel is both hard and impervious to moisture.
What is the pericarp or hull?
technology of the 1950s:
This technology was the last straw in the movie system in the late forties and fifties.
What is television?
This irregularly shaped pieces with wings are considered to have a more pleasant mouth feel and is generally used for movie.
What are butterfly flakes?
Corn originally meant whatever cereal plant was most used by a culture. In Scotland and Ireland, corn was oats.To this country, corn was wheat.
What is England?
This, when heated turns to steam.
As the temperature increases, the steam pressure builds and the starchy inside turn into a hot molten gel.
What is water?
With this invention, popcorn spread quickly throughout the United States.
What is the wire popper?
These take on a more ball shape making them less fragile and are often used for prepackaged popcorn and confectionery like caramel corn.
What are mushroom flakes?
By 1920s, popcorn was everywhere, at sporting events, circuses, parks, bars... everywhere except this place.
What is the movie theater?
This economic downturn in history caused many movie palaces to close and those that survived were clinging to dear life.
Everyone in the movies were suffering... except for the street vendors who were proving there was a buttery goldmine in popcorn.
What is the Great Depression?
At this temperature, the internal pressure is 135psi - 930 kiloPascals.
What is 356 F (180C)?
This company was issued the first patent for a microwave popcorn bag.
Who is General Mills?
This is perhaps oldest snack food known to man with evidence of popcorn being found in the "bat cave" in Western New Mexico dating back to 3600 BC.
What is popcorn?
There is actually no evidence to suggest that popcorn was present at the first American Thanksgiving in what city and state in 1621.
Where is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
The popcorn industry turned to technology to make popcorn at home, but it was another piece of technology that would make popcorn the perfect companion for a night in with a movie.
What is the microwave oven?
This person built the first popcorn-popping machine in 1890.
Who is Charles Cretors?
At the Columbian Expo in Chicago 1893, inventor Charles Cretors introduced the world's first mobile popcorn machine.A simple steam engine attached to a peanut cart that cooked popcorn this mixture.
What is butter and lard?
F.W. Rueckheim introduced a molasses flavored "Candied Popcorn with Peanuts" the first Caramel Corn. It was a bit too sticky for most people, so Rueckheim's brother altered the recipe and packaged it in 1896.
What is a Cracker Jack?
When these settlers came to America they found the inhabitants growing Indian Corn or maize their dominant cereal plant.
Who are the Europeans?