Popcorn is admittedly sold at a huge markup in movies, as they make about 85 percent profits through its sales.

They are cheap to make at scale and are sold at prices that make them a primary profit machine for movie theatres.

• When movie theatres started showing movies with sound, the audience increased, as now people didn’t have to read the titles from the movies.
• Popcorn by then was a cheap snack outside of theatres, with a bag costing only about 5 to 10 cents.
• Moviegoers started buying them b...

Popped from a strain of corn which is starchy and a hard surface, popcorn was the first variant of maize that came from Central America thousands of years ago.

The sound of popping corn was entertaining, and by the 1950s, popped corn exploded, and was available in circuses and fairs.

Surprisingly, popcorn was not initially available at movie theatres, which were catering to a ‘highbrow clientele’ and didn’t want to spoil their expensive carpets and rugs.

They also thought that the crunchy sound of snacking on popcorn would distract the audience from the movies, which w...