popcorn is nothing new in the americas, and neither is its popularity.
A thousand years ago, Indians of Peru popped corn on hot stones or in boiling oil.
They prized it so much that buried bags of popcorn with their dead.
Aztec Indians of Mexco not only ate popcorn but also strewed it befor their gods, and girls strung wreaths ofit for their hair.
Indians fo Massachusetts Bay donated a bushel of the snowy stuff to the Pilgrim colony's Thanks giving feast 1630.