What Popcorn Really Do

What did popcorn do (beside high cholesterol)?

Popcorn is that nice little snack that you eat inside a movie theatre. Popcorn was taken from corns (of course it is). Popcorn consist of two types, “popcorn” and “mushroom.” “Popcorn” is made for straight consumption, like in movie theatres, it usually mixed with butter. “Mushroom” is made for package consumption, like Garrett.

So how do popcorn became the icon of movie theatres?

In the 1900’s popcorn became the cheapest snack to be bought - High to Low Class people can buy it. They are found in baseball competitions, parks, picnic recreation, and many others – but not in movie theatres, yet.

 In the 1920’s, The Great Depression strikes. Most of movie theatres became bankrupt and popcorn was the snack to be hidden behind a coat in cheap movie theatres. A man saw an opportunity of this. He began to put his popcorn machines in front of movie theatres. He made more money than the theatre did. So the theatre kicked him away. He vowed to make his own movie theatre so his popcorn machines weren’t taken away again. This man was known as Kemmons Wilson – the man who founded Holiday Inn.

Seeing all this, small movie theatres tried to raise their profit by selling popcorn inside their theatre. Some time later they made more profit from it. Many big theatres followed this path. So movie theatres - once again - can show amazing movies.

So what did popcorn really do?

Popcorn saved the movie industry. Without them, maybe we can’t show our movies today. Even though some countries ban popcorn from movie theatres, we must respect this small snack because it did a big role.

So when I’m watching a movie and you told me to stop eating popcorn, I want you to understand that I’m trying to save the movie industry.