http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2012/01/ancient-popcorn-unearthed-in-peru/ A new Smithsonian blog covering scenes and sightings from the Smithsonian museums and beyond. Mon, 20 May 2013 19:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2012/01/ancient-popcorn-unearthed-in-peru/comment-page-1/#comment-9006 Celesta Cook Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:57:23 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/?p=25758#comment-9006 Traders were free to travel almost anywhere, everyone wanted to find out what was in their packs as they moved from place to place. They were the only means of information to the common people and they could show them what something was and how it was used. It seems only reasonable to me that popcorn was passed along this way. Not only did they have new ideas to trade along with material things, they did this over thousands of miles from Canada to the tip of South America. Very seldom was a trader harmed because he was needed by everyone. Traders were free to travel almost anywhere, everyone wanted to find out what was in their packs as they moved from place to place. They were the only means of information to the common people and they could show them what something was and how it was used. It seems only reasonable to me that popcorn was passed along this way. Not only did they have new ideas to trade along with material things, they did this over thousands of miles from Canada to the tip of South America. Very seldom was a trader harmed because he was needed by everyone.

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