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:
www.smithsonia...
www.neatorama....
mentalfloss.com...
www.themarysue...
www.gizmodo.co...
History of Movie Theaters:
www.history.co...
History of Popcorn:
www.pbs.org/foo...
Corn Subsidies:
www.marketplac...
www.econlib.org...
grist.org/food...
www.washington...
www.npr.org/se...
www.economist....
farm.ewg.org/p...
www.washington...
www.nationalge...
www.nal.usda.g...
www.usda.gov/m...
www.popcorn.org/