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National Popcorn Day: The 5,000-Year-Old Snack from Bat Cave to Movie Theater Buckets
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National Popcorn Day: The 5,000-Year-Old Snack from Bat Cave to Movie Theater Buckets

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On January 19, National Popcorn Day salutes the puffy kernel humans have eaten since 5,000 years ago — the oldest ears were found in New Mexico's Bat Cave. Charles Cretors made it a commercial phenomenon with his 1893 steam-driven popper, and the Great Depression cemented popcorn as movie-theater fuel because it was one of the few snacks people could still afford. Marlo Anderson of National Day Calendar tosses a kernel to caramel corn, kettle corn, and every microwaved bag.

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