The History Of Popcorn

What Is The History Of Popcorn?
Indians popped popcorn over 5,000 years ago making it one of the oldest snack foods. Ancient popcorn poppers contained it instead of catching it bursting from thecampfire.
Popcorn was originally grown in Mexico but somehow it had spread globally through India, China and Sumatra years before the first European explorers arrived on North America's shores.Popcorn was popped by throwing it on sizzling hot stones tended over a raging campfire. Naturally, as it popped it shot off in various directions. The game was to catch the popcorn and the reward wassnacking on it.
Teenage girls today would most likely balk at wearing popcorn to the prom but Christopher Columbus, in 1492, observed West Indian natives wearing popcorn corsages as well as using poppedcorn to decorate ceremonial headdresses. Columbus noted in his memoirs that Indians sold popcorn to his sailors.
Cortez, another European global explorer, wrote in his diaries Aztecs decoratedceremonial garb with popped corn. He noted it symbolized goodwill and peace and how the Aztecs made necklaces and other ornaments for the god's statues with the grain, especially that of the god Tialoc, thegod of rain, fertility and maize (corn).
Popcorn was spreading through almost all tribes of North and South America by the time the Pilgrims arrived. Quadequina, a brother of Chief Massasoit of theWampanoag tribe brought popcorn to the first Thanksgiving dinner in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Indians brought popcorn to many of the meetings with colonists as a goodwill gesture - kind of liketheir contribution to the potluck meal.
The colonists loved popcorn so much they served it with sugar and cream for breakfast. This was the very first puffed breakfast cereal.
Popcorn carts wereseen on every street always following the crowds after their invention in 1885. These were steam and gas poppers easily pushed through parks, fairs, carnivals, conventions and expositions. Believe it...