Orville Redenbacher revolutionized the popcorn industry with his dedication to creating the perfect popcorn seed and his "do one thing and do it better than anyone" slogan, leading to the creation of the biggest popcorn brand that has been produced by Con Agra for 30 years.

At 12 years old, Orville begins to grow his own popping corn. It becomes his passion, and his first business, allowing him to save enough for college, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture from Purdue University. Orville begins raising popcorn for the supermarket trade.

According to the Orville Redinbacher website, in 1965, he and his business partner Charles Bowman managed to create an ideal popcorn hybrid that was light, fluffy, and, most importantly, pre-disposed to pop.

The popcorn business and other old Hunt-Wesson businesses were sold in 1990 to agribusiness giant Conagra Brands. Hunt-Wesson, Inc.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

By 1848, the word “popcorn” was included in John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms. Bartlett claimed that the name was derived from “the noise it makes on bursting open.” One of the earliest recipes for popping corn came from Daniel Browne during the 1840s.

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The American Pop Corn Company The American Pop Corn Company is a family owned popcorn producer. Founded in 1914, it is the oldest popcorn company in the United States. Its only brand, Jolly Time, is sold globally and in every state in America.

Corn was domesticated about 10,000 years ago, in what is now Mexico. Archaeologists discovered that people have known about popcorn for thousands of years. Fossil evidence from Peru suggests that corn was popped as early as 4,700 BC. Through the 19th century, popping of the kernels was achieved by hand, on stove tops.

about 5,600 years old The oldest ears of popcorn ever found were discovered in the Bat Cave of west central New Mexico in 1948 and 1950. Ranging from smaller than a penny to about 2 inches, the oldest Bat Cave ears are about 5,600 years old.

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