From wild corn to movie theater popcorn

It seems to be on everyone's mind that a movie theater always goes with popcorn, preferably in a big bucket.

In the beginning, man was essentially a hunter, but over time the number of men was increasing in relation to the number of animals to be hunted. You could walk all day without finding a good game. It is not known for sure who or when the idea, probably someone very hungry, might have had the idea of ​​taking a little plant from the tree and eating it. But the idea was so good, after all the berries don't run away, they're there, you just have to pick them up, that soon most of the men became "collectors".

It might not be as much work as hunting, but it sure was work, they didn't have much idea which fruit you could eat and which you couldn't... and often the stomach ache was the only reward for wanting to change your habit. Soon they learned, through experience, and began to develop a way of telling others what they discovered, a kind of sign language.

Even knowing which fruits to eat, it wasn't enough to feed several families together, as once you have picked all the fruits in one place, they run out. That's where the rivers come in, the banks of the rivers are very fertile, and these men began to realize that where they had parties with lots of food the following year that region was full of fruit again. Even though it seemed like a magical ritual, they discovered that after eating the fruits, if they threw their remains on the ground, that place was "blessed" and then even more fruits were born.

Thus, little by little, the first farms were developed, agriculture (which at first only served as support for the rest of the food that still came from hunting).

It turns out that for corn the path was even longer, the wild corn on the cob is only 3 to 5 centimeters. It was the Olmecs, Indians of the region of Mexico, who learned little by little to separate the largest grains from each ear and plant them, and from this largest ear to extract the largest, and for 2,000 years they did this, and only in this way they arrived at our ear. of corn of the current size.

They had a fertility ritual in which large pots (similar to popcorn buckets) were filled with corn, popped that corn and ate letting many and many fall to the ground, as those that fell would give new crops the next year.

And it is from this ritual that even today the popcorn bucket is so full that it is impossible for none to fall, although on the floor of the cinema hardly any cob will sprout.