Popcorn
Trivia
"Popcorn",
the background music for our website is a famous early
synthesizer-pop intrumental. Composer Gershon Kingsley of Perry
and Kingsley first recorded synthesized music in their 1969
album
Music To Moog By.
The first synthesizer was developed by Dr. Robert Moog (rhymes
with vogue). “Popcorn” was first recorded under the instrumental
of "Hot Butter” in 1971. The record (pre-cursor to tapes and
CD), was one of a rash of Moog-synthesizer-based releases that
characterised the Synth-Pop” craze of the 1960s and 1970s. It
has been then covered by various artists, including Jean-Michel
Jarre (as the Popcorn Orshestra) and Arthur Fiedler of the
Boston Pops Orchestra. There are in fact 500 cover versions and
remixes of the song that exist today. Part of the song's fame
comes from the rumor that the characteristic main melody was in
fact written by a computer program that was created to compose
music. While the statement seemed credible around the time of
the computer's relation with music and being rather obscure, it
is now assumed that the whole song was created and arranged by
Gershon Kingsley.
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"Lead
singer Meatloaf's band; who made his debut by riding his
Harley-Davidson motorcycle in the Rocky Horror Picture Show
was not always called Meatloaf. His first band was
called Popcorn Blizzard."
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A
Jeopardy show with host Alex Trebek that aired 08
September 2004 listed one of its categories as SMALL TOWNS. The
answer was The Place Where Popcorn King Orville Redenbacher
Comes From. And of course the question was “What is
Brazil, Indiana?”
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Madonna and popper: Actor and singer Madonna feared there would
be a shortage of low-calorie snacks in the Orient, arranged to
have jars of Orville Redenbacher popcorn with popper in all four
locations during the filming of Shanghai Surprise.
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How old is popcorn? The first popcorn in North America goes as
far back as 80,000 years when Indians cultivated species of
native grass with corn. Archeologists have found two-inch ears
of popcorn, 5,600 years old, in New Mexico bat caves.
A-maize-ingly, these kernels still popped!
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Popcorn is a nutritious snack option. It’s 77% carbohydrates,
12% protein, 5% fat, and 2% minerals. The American Dental
Association recommends it due to no sugar and it cleanses the
teeth. It’s high in fiber. Redenbacher’s Gourmet Popping Corn
contains 80 calories per 3 cup serving if prepared as directed.
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North American Indians, chronicled
by Christopher Columbus and Hernando Cortes, believed that a
demon lived inside each kernel of corn and when it got angry
once near fire, it exploded.
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The American Indians considered
popcorn a very special treat and included it as part of the
First Thanksgiving at Plymouth.
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Quadaquina, brother of Chieftain
Massasoit of the Wamponoag tribe gave a deerskin bag of
popcorn and recipe for popcorn soup as a offering of
friendship with the colonists. The colonists returned
with their recipe for a breakfast cereal: popcorn sweetened
with sugar and cream which became more acceptable during the
Victorian era (1890s).
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The meaning of corn today
is different. The generic term corn in
the Old World applied to any crop grain of an area. If you
grew wheat, then your corn would be wheat. If you grew
barley, then your corn would be barley. This applied to oats,
millet, and rye too. So, the American Indians' corn was
actually maize to designate their
native plant. Eventually, the term corn became synonymous
with maize.
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