10 Fun Facts About Popcorn
The Mens Room Daily Podcast
Audacy
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ted, what day is it, buddy? You should know this. |
| 0:01.8 | Hump Day. Huh? No, it's Thursday. |
| 0:03.6 | Yeah, that's correct. You're close, bud. You're zeroing in on it. |
| 0:06.2 | Oh, no, he has the two hump camels. Oh, okay to do Wednesday or Thursday. Double hump Thursday. But no, it's Popcorn Lover's Day. Oh, right? The Mids Rup Top 10! So for this, a popcorn lover's day, I decided to bring you guys some fun facts about popcorn. |
| 0:26.4 | Ted, I know they already know all this, man, but that's okay. |
| 0:28.2 | We're just going to run over some of this info. |
| 0:29.5 | All right. |
| 0:31.2 | Some historical and cultural fun facts about popcorn. |
| 0:34.4 | It's an ancient snack, you see. |
| 0:35.8 | The oldest ears of popcorn were found in a cave in |
| 0:38.3 | New Mexico and are estimated to be about 5,600 years old. Damn. Hmm. I just don't have... |
| 0:44.8 | Do you think they just looked at cave panties? It's like the version of the movies? Right. |
| 0:49.0 | Hey, let's watch them do a stone carpet. My question is, what is the process from coming off the ear |
| 0:54.0 | to it being poppable? |
| 0:56.4 | Is it baked? |
| 0:57.2 | Is it dried? |
| 0:58.3 | I'm not sure because my understanding is the thing that makes it pop. |
| 1:02.8 | Temperature must be 356 degrees, heat and frisional. |
| 1:06.4 | Or something like that, but it's the moisture inside of it. |
| 1:09.2 | Right. |
| 1:09.6 | I believe. |
| 1:10.2 | So you wouldn't want to dry it out too much. |
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