All corn can’t become popcorn, the kernel’s skin in something like yellow corn is too thick. So after corn was domesticated another variety with thinner skin had to emerge before the first popcorn could be made.

Imagine just trying to roast the staple crop you’ve grown up eating and it suddenly explodes and turns into this feather light white fluffy thing. If I didn’t grow up knowing what popcorn was I don’t know what I’d think.

I'm glad to see a showerthought on here. It's been awhile. And yea, it must've been a eureka moment.

I'm thinking it was a "hold my beer" or "let's get Mikey" moment.

"Bet you won't eat that!"

Lots of seed crops pop, so corn may not have been the first they saw...but you need dried hard grain, not fresh off the cob juicy stuff