Let's celebrate National Popcorn Day!

19 January is National Popcorn Day, the day we celebrate popcorn. Popcorn is a popular snack and indispensable in cinemas but why really? We take a dive into history to understand how popcorn made its way into cinemas.

In the early 1900s, cinemas came into being and in the 1930s they became very popular. It was also the time of the great stock market crash, and visitors brought their own popcorn to the cinema. Popcorn was not only an inexpensive snack, it was especially popular because it was easy to consume with your fingers while watching the film. After World War II, American cinemas started making and selling their own popcorn. Thanks to the growing popularity of American cinema, popcorn spilled over to Europe in the 1980s. By now, enjoying popcorn and watching film are inseparable and you can find it in every cinema.

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