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by Accidental on July 13th, 2006

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Why did popcorn become the standard in movie snacking? When and where did this start?

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  • by RyleeGirl on July 13th, 2006

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    Okay so separate your question.

    During the late 1800's, popcorn was being sold in the United States by vendors on the street, in parks at Carnivals and Fairs.

    Some years later, when street vendors started setting up outside movie theatres, they were not welcome, at least as far as the theatre owners were concerned. They thought the vendors were a distraction.

    But movie goers didn't agree. They went out on the sidewalk in droves to buy bags of yummy popcorn before going back inside to see the movie.

    Movie theatre owners have always had a keen eye for profits. So a few of the smarter ones asked the vendors to come inside and split whatever they made from their popcorn sales with the theatre. Of course it wasn't long until the theatre owners realized they could set up their own popcorn popper and send the vendor packing... And that's apparently how the movie snack bar came to be.

    http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/12-7-2005-83445.asp


    And the second part about when is that popcorn has been served in movie theaters since 1912 in the USA.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn

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