When asked whether marijuana or alcohol would be more harmful to personal health, if marijuana were as widely available as alcohol, 69 percent of Americans said alcohol is more dangerous, while only 15 percent said that marijuana is more dangerous. Fourteen percent said both or neither are more dangerous.
Popcorn probably grew first in Mexico, though it was also used in China and India hundreds of years before Columbus reached the Americas. The oldest popcorn ever found was discovered in the Bat Cave of central New Mexico. It is thought to be about 5,600 years old.
Vacuum popping builds on a century and a half of research into why popcorn pops. According to Andrew Smith, the author of Popped Culture: A Social History of Popcorn in America, some scientists thought popcorn owed its pop to the oil in the kernel. Others thought the kernelâs moisture content was the critical factor.