So Now You Know

1. Popcorn has been a food product for over 6,000 years.

2. When the English colonists sat down for their first Thanksgiving dinner on February 22, 1630, popcorn was brought as a gift by the Indian Quadequina, brother of Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe, to the colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

It would not have been popcorn as we know it. An oiled ear was held on a stick over an open fire and the popped kernels would be chewed off. Popcorn later served as a morning cereal, eaten with cream or milk. The colonists called it "popped corn", "parching corn", or "rice corn".