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    How did Charles Cretors Get the idea to invent the popcorn popper? Well, to answer this question we have to go back to the very beginning. Right to the spot where popcorn was first discovered. Popcorn wasn’t really invented, but discovered. Back around 5,600 years ago, in Central Mexico in a bat cave. The native people were exploring and found the popped corn. First Discovery When the first people discovered, the native people used it for decoration. They used it for bracelets, head dresses,…

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    Abstract Advertisers are always advertising there popcorn by flavor. They never really seem to be publicising the amount of popcorn or kernels that each bag or pack you would say it contains. The average amount of kernels that pop in a bag would be about 85% from the entire bag. So, the other 15% of kernels stay unpopped through the whole process of the popping. The different variety of brands that were tested were ACI II, Orville, and Pop-Secret. Our group decided to choose these brands…

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    Several pleasures are among the debts. Native Americans originated two fine junk foods. They discovered popcorn. Potato chips were also one of their contributions. The introduction of popcorn to the European settlers came from Native Americans. Massaoit provided popcorn at the first thanksgiving feast. The Aztecs offered popcorn to the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes. The Aztecs wore popcorn necklaces. So did the Natives of the West Indies. There was three ways that the Native Americans popped…

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    be able to afford the cost of the food at the movies. When people go to the movies they want to buy popcorn to go along with an amazing movie, but some people may not have enough money to buy popcorn. For example, if someone only went to the movies with 10 dollars and it cost 8 dollars to get in, and they want to buy popcorn but it cost 3 dollars. They will not have enough money to buy the popcorn. Then they would just have to watch the movie with no food. If you were able to bring your own food…

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    Immigrant: A Short Story

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    long table. The waitress gave us our menus while we were looking them over my grandma said she was going to get the popcorn gator as an appetizer. My cousin Tony overheard my grandma, and said grandma that does sound good. When the waitress came back around to take our order she had five or six orders for popcorn gator because everyone else overheard my cousin talking about the popcorn gator. I thought it was wrong to eat an animal that wasn't a pig, chicken, turkey, or cow and I also thought…

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    As the opening crawl of your favorite movie comes on, you catch a whiff of something gross. You turn around, just in time to catch a man scorching down a three course meal behind you- and it is stinking up the whole theater. You turn back around in disgust and try to enjoy the movie as much as you can. On average, 58% of people who go to the movies smuggle in their own food to avoid buying the greasy, unhealthy snacks provided. Is it right to sneak food into the movie theaters? It is right to…

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    The Aztecs: Mexico City

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    know that aztecs believed in many gods.You see the aztecs thought that their rulers represented gods.They used arts to honor their gods including sculptures,metaphors,and popcorn…

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    What Andrew Smith said in Smithsonian about theaters and popcorn, at the time, was, ¨Movie theaters wanted nothing to do with popcorn because they were trying to duplicate what was done in real theaters. They had beautiful carpets and rugs and didn’t want popcorn being ground into it. Movie theaters were trying to appeal to a highbrow clientele, and didn’t want to deal with the distracting trash of concessions—or…

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    and our annual monies raised from that event became less and less each year. So, another member came up with the idea of us selling popcorn, instead. I took point on this project with my co-president and we coordinated all of the scheduling for the event including making the popcorn, distributing the popcorn, and cleaning up the mess we made with popcorn. The popcorn and bags were donated by the local boosters club which made every dollar received pure profit. The whole event went off without a…

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    behind the counter until I ate a single piece of popcorn that was drenched in butter and smothered in the amount of cooking salt that we use on two batches of popcorn. I hadn’t even allowed it to touch my tongue before I had guzzled down a half a bottle of water. Chris has also tried multiple times to get me to drink a Suicide with Hot Tamales in it. I refuse immediately every…

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