response: There are certain strains of corn they cultivate to make popping corn. Its called ''zea mays''.
history: I love sneaking in popcorn into movie theaters. Is that so? Do you watch the popcorn kernels puff out forcefully when heated? Yep, so simple, yet so tasty. How long has popcorn been around, anyway? Archaeologists have found that people knew of popcorn for thousands of years. I don't think they had movie theaters that long ago, I wondered what they watched when eating popcorn. Well, I have no idea. What I do know is that corn itself was domesticated about 9,000 years ago, in Mexico. Wow, that's a long time ago. Is popcorn its own "type" of corn?
knowledge: Some strains of corn (taxonomized as ''Zea mays'') are cultivated specifically as popping corns.