New York, Jan 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Today – 19th January is the National Popcorn Day. This is quite ironical, because the National Popcorn Month is in October. According to tradition, it is celebrated on January 19th each year. There is some suggestion that Popcorn Day may, at one point, have been tied to the Superbowl. And there was some reference to it being on January 30th too.

Popcorn is a pretty healthy food before it is coated with the additives (like salt, butter, caramel, sugar etc that made it calorie rich. There are numerous popcorn recipes that make use of this fabulous snack.

Corn popping was originally discovered by Native Americans, but became popular as a snack food during the United States Great Depression, especially in the movie theaters. Even though it is an inexpensive thing, but all the same it is not an affordable snack in the movie theatres, as a small bag of buttered popcorn is around $5 or more.

There are many techniques for popping corn. Commercial large-scale popcorn machines were invented by Charles Cretors in the late 19th Century. Many types of small-scale home methods for popping corn also exist, with the most popular in the USA being prepackaged microwavable popcorn.