Why Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?

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Why do we eat popcorn at the movies? And what does the Great Depression and farm subsidies have to do with it?

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Works Cited:
Popcorn and the Movies:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c...
https://www.neatorama.com/neatoliciou...
http://mentalfloss.com/article/61130/...
https://www.themarysue.com/popcorn-mo...
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/11/wh...

History of Movie Theaters:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...

History of Popcorn:
http://www.pbs.org/food/the-history-k...

Corn Subsidies:
https://www.marketplace.org/2012/06/1...
http://www.econlib.org/library/Column...
https://grist.org/food/our-crazy-farm...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wh...
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/...
https://www.economist.com/united-stat...
https://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?f...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pe...
https://www.nal.usda.gov/agricultural...
https://www.usda.gov/media/press-rele...
https://www.popcorn.org/