The+History+of+Popcorn

The History of Popcorn**I bet nobody has ever thought about what started popcorn.

Popcorn was said to have started in the 16th century by the Aztec tribes. They wore popcorn as head dresses, jewelry, and ate it as food. Henan Cortes, when he first invaded Mexico, saw popcorn for the first time.

Popcorn was very important to the Aztec tribes. They used it to communicate to their gods. The gods of rain and fertility. The Aztec name for popcorn is Pisancalla.

During the great depression, street vendors sold popcorn for 5 to 10 cents a bag. A lot of other companies and businesses became bankrupt because of the great depression, but popcorn did not, popcorn stayed.

A vendor started selling popcorn near a theater and it became very popular to eat it in the theater. That is how the whole theater popcorn thing began to happen. And when sugar began to be limited in the United States, popcorn began to become even more popular because it doesn't use sugar.

The Aztec popped popcorn by mixing popcorn kernals into heated sand. This caused the kernals to pop and become popcorn ears.

Now you know a little more about popcorn!**