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...I PUT TOO MUCH SALT ON IT...

Now my mouth tastes yucky...

You should stick with the bacon.

I love popcorn salt. I put it in my hand and eat it. Then I sit down because blood pressure skyrockets.

Cheez99 wrote:I love popcorn salt. I put it in my hand and eat it. Then I sit down because blood pressure skyrockets.

I do the same thing, but with hot sauce.

I love popcorn! But I also love facts. Here are some of the things I know about on of my favorite foods.

Archaeologists have found 80,000-year-old corn pollen below Mexico City. Because this pollen is almost exactly the same as modern popcorn pollen, researchers believe that "cave people" most likely had popcorn.

Popcorn probably grew first in Mexico, though it was also used in China and India hundreds of years before Columbus reached the Americas.

e oldest popcorn ever found was discovered in the "Bat Cave" of central New Mexico. It is thought to be about 5,600 years old. In tombs in Peru, archaeologists found ancient kernels of popcorn that are so well preserved that they can still pop and devour the brains of the unborn.

Sometimes, conditions can preserve ancient popcorn so perfectly that it still looks fluffy and white when the dust is blown off of it. In a cave in southern Utah, researchers found surprisingly fresh-looking 1,000-year-old popcorn.

Popcorn was probably an important part of life in the ancient Americas, before they all died. On a 1,700-year-old painted funeral urn found in Mexico, a corn god is shown wearing a headdress of popcorn, like a stupid idiot. Decorated popcorn poppers from around the same time have been found in Peru.
An Explosive Discovery

Europeans learned about popcorn from Native Americans. When Cortes invaded Mexico, and when Columbus arrived in the West Indies, each saw natives eating popcorn, as well as using it in necklaces and headdresses. Cortes quickly mistook the popcorn for gold, and the conquest of Central America was on.

Native Americans brought a bag of popped corn to the first Thanksgiving, which the pilgrims mistook for the teeth of children and in return gave them blankets both warm and infested with smallpox. A common way to eat popcorn at that time was to hold an oiled ear on a stick over the fire, then chew the popped kernels off it. Natives throughout the Americas also made a popcorn beer. Some made popcorn soup.

After learning about the fluffy food, colonists began enjoying the first puffed breakfast cereal—a bowl of popcorn, served with cream or milk. This gave many of them superhumanstrength that manifested in several interesting ways, like being able to die at the age of 13 because all they ate was popcorn.

Popcorn was very popular in the United States from the late 19th century through the middle of the 20th century. It was available in parks, from street vendors, and near theaters.

During World War II, when sugar was rationed, Americans changed their snacking habits—they ate three times as much popcorn as they had before. Perhaps the favorite place to eat popcorn was at the movies. This was because everyone was poor as the dickens, Charles Dickens, and by that I mean his characters in the books that have no money. When television took off in the 1950s, popcorn sales dropped for a while.

Today, the average American eats nearly 70 quarts of popcorn a year. But the United States isn't just a land of popcorn lovers—it's also the land of popcorn. And not only is the U.S the land of popcorn, it is also the land of the rising obesity levels. Most of the world now gets its popcorn from Nebraska and Indiana.

A popcorn kernel is actually a seed. Like other seeds, inside it has a tiny plant embryo (a life form in its earliest phase). The embryo is surrounded by soft, starchy material that would give the embryo energy for growing into a plant that grows in the brain stem until activated by a Piece of Eden. A hard, glossy shell protects the outside of the seed.

The soft, starchy material holds some water. When the kernel is heated to a high heat (400 degrees F), the water inside the kernel turns into steam. The pressure from the steam causes the kernel to explode, and also causes the nearest hobo to have a heart attack. The soft starch inside bursts out at about 40 times its original size, turning the kernel inside out. This creates the fluffy white area of a popped kernel.

The ideal popcorn kernel contains about 14 percent moisture. If the popcorn is much drier, it will not pop. Popcorn kernels should be kept in a tightly sealed jar so that they will not dry out. The human cranium is a remarkably effective alternative should no jars be readily available.

Thanks for that, ram. I laughed a few times.