Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast,'m Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V Wilson.

Tracy did you know that I'm kind of obsessed with popcorn?

No I did not know this.

I love popcorn.

I love it too. Like I love love it we I love it.

Like I love love it.

We talked about it behind the scenes.

Yeah, let's do.

I, you know, lately on and off the last couple of years I've been looking at whether or not I should buy a glazing machine to do like

Oh fancy ones theme park style popcorn fun I always back off of it and in a moment of like you don't need that part of it is because there's only one person in my house that eats popcorn but the bottom line is that this and a couple other things have made me think about like popcorn and we'll talk about it in the

course of the episode but a lot of like what we know about popcorn's early phases or what gets repeated a lot is flat out false.

Right.

So at least in modern culture.

So I thought it would be fun to pick apart popcorn through the ages

because it goes back very far, but was not popcorn through the ages. Uh-huh.

It goes back very far, but was not necessarily as prevalent in places we have been told it was.

And then we'll talk about how it has become a huge industry.

Yeah.

I had not thought about the economics of why it is such a profit industry.

But now I have.

So we'll talk about all of that today. Yeah. So the use of the word

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