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2. Popcorn maker - Wikipedia

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   A hot-air home popcorn maker. A popcorn maker (also called a popcorn popper) is a machine used to pop corn. Since ancient times, popcorn has been a popular snack food, produced through the explosive expansion of kernels of heated corn . [1] Commercial large-scale popcorn machines were invented by Charles Cretors in the late 19th century. Many ...

3. Cretors - Wikipedia

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   C. Cretors & Company is an American manufacturing company, specializing in popcorn machines and other concessions equipment. It was established in 1885 with the invention of the first large-scale commercial popcorn machine to pop corn in oil. C. Cretors & Co. is in Wood Dale, Illinois and is still owned by the Cretors family.

4. List of popcorn brands - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of notable popcorn brands. Popcorn , also known as popping corn , is a type of corn ( maize , Zea mays var. everta ) that expands from the kernel and puffs up when heated. Popcorn is able to pop because its kernels have a hard moisture-sealed hull and a dense starchy interior.

5. Popcorn - Wikipedia

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   An early popcorn machine in a street cart, invented in the 1880s by Charles Cretors in Chicago. Popcorn's accessibility increased rapidly in the 1890s with Charles Cretors' invention of the popcorn maker. Cretors, a Chicago candy store owner, had created a number of steam-powered machines for roasting nuts and applied the technology to the corn ...

6. Weaver Popcorn Company - Wikipedia

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   Popped Culture: A Social History of Popcorn in America. University of South Carolina Press. p. 80. ISBN 1-57003-300-5. Muhammad E. Fayed (2005). Popcorn Cleans Up: From America's Favorite Snack to Environmental and Health Breakthroughs. Just My Best Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 1-932586-46-6. How much of purchase goes towards fundraising?

7. American Pop Corn Company - Wikipedia

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   The American Pop Corn Company was founded by Cloid H. Smith, who began experimenting with popcorn production after becoming dissatisfied with the prices at which popcorn from his farm was being sold. He started the business in the basement of his home in Schaller, Iowa, with the assistance of his son, Howard. [1] [3] [4]