Could a popcorn kernel grow into a popcorn plant?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
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🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
If you plant certain seeds in the right condition - a plant or tree might grow. But what happens if you plant a popcorn kernel? Will a bowl of popcorn grow right out of the ground? We needed to know, so we asked Phil Fox of Popcornopolis to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:03.4 | Moment of um. |
| 0:06.5 | Um, um, um, um. |
| 0:08.7 | Moment of um comes to you from APm studios. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Molly Bloom. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Molly Bloom. Going to a movie at a movie theater. |
| 0:17.0 | Having a sleepover with your friends. |
| 0:19.0 | Curling up on the couch to binge watch a series or attending family game night. What snack is likely present at all |
| 0:25.7 | of these occasions or if it's not its absence is palpable? |
| 0:29.1 | Popcorn! It's kind of amazing that popcorn came to be, right? |
| 0:35.0 | Like whoever thought to heat up corn enough that it exploded into a |
| 0:38.0 | delicious snack that people like to slather butter and salt on? |
| 0:41.0 | Evidence of popcorn dates back more than 5,000 years and it's here to |
| 0:46.2 | stay as Americans alone eat billions of courts of the stuff every year. So what if you |
| 0:51.6 | wanted to farm your own popcorn? Could you grow some? |
| 0:55.0 | Listen to Eric was wondering this very same thing. |
| 0:58.0 | Hey, my name is Eric and I'm from Rochester, Minnesota. |
| 1:02.0 | My question is, if you planted a popcorn |
| 1:05.1 | kernel would it grow into a popcorn plant? My name is Phil Fox. I'm the VP of |
| 1:10.3 | product development at Popcornopoulos. I'm also the chief food scientist, the |
| 1:14.8 | Chief Foodie, and we make lots of popcorn every day. |
| 1:19.8 | So if you take a kernel of popcorn, it's going to grow. |
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