...popping. The oldest ears of popcorn ever found were discovered in the Bat Cave of west central New Mexico in 1948 and 1950. Ranging from smaller than a penny to about 2 inches, the oldest Bat Cave ears are about 4,000 years old. Popcorn was integral to early 16th century Aztec Indian ceremonies. Bernardino de Sahagun writes: “And also a number of young women dance, having so vowed, a popcorn dance .As thick as tassels of maize were their popcorn garlands. And these they placed upon ( the girls ) heads”. In 1519, Cortes got his first sight of popcorn when he invaded Mexico and came into with the Aztecs. Popcorn was an important food for the Aztec Indians, who also used popcorn as decoration for ceremonial headdresses, necklaces and ornaments on statues of their gods, including Tlaloc, the god of rain and fertility. An early Spanish account of a ceremony honoring the Aztec gods who watched over fishermen reads: “They scattered before him parched corn, called momochitl, a kind of corn which burst when parched and discloses its contents and makes its look like a very white flower; they said these were hailstones given to god of water.” Writing of Peruvian Indians in 1650, the Spaniard Cabo says. “They toast a certain kind of corn until it bursts. They call it pisancalla, and they use it as a confection.” The use of the moldboard plow became commonplace in the mid-1800 and led to the widespread planting of maize in the United States. Popcorn is a type of maize...
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...1.0 Executive Summary We are preparing to open a popcorn specialty shop in Hong Kong, the Pop Popcorn Shop. Hong Kong is a famous international tourism city and it successfully received more than 42 million tourists in the past year. Hong Kong has its unique culture and the Hong Kong film culture is one of the most remarkable one. Therefore, our Pop Popcorn Shop will closely integrated with the Hong Kong film culture, and create a well-known local brand image, which can attractive to local residents who like to eat popcorn or like to see movies, and the tourists who interest in the Hong Kong culture or movies. We can effectively compete with other popcorn store because we offer a high quality, various tasty flavors, as well as healthy popcorn with value price to consumers. More importantly, we provide customize service, which customers can make their own flavor popcorn and even the packages according to their preference. The particular customize service as well as the film culture brand image is our two brightest spots, which can make us distinguish with other competitors and become our distinct competencies. The marketing objective in the first year is to build up our brand awareness through our various marketing communication methods and we will continue to focus on increasing our brand equity in the next two years. The primary financial objectives are to achieve first-year sales revenue of HKD1,580,000 (USD 203,820) and reach profitability. The revenue will be expected...
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...TWIX POPCORN Ingredients • [print_link] • Recipe: Snickers Popcorn • 4 quarts air popped corn (about 2/s cups of kernels) • 1 cup salted butter • 2 cups light brown sugar, packed • 1 teaspoon salt • 1/2 cup light corn syrup • 1 teaspoon baking soda • 1 cup salted peanuts • 30 "Fun Size" Twix bars coarsely chopped • 3 oz melted semi sweet chocolate (optional) How to Make 1. Preheat oven to 200° 2. Over medium heat boil butter, brown sugar, salt and corn syrup for 5 minutes. 3. Remove from heat and stir in your baking soda. 4. Pour over your popcorn and stir to coat evenly. 5. Transfer to waxed paper lined counter and sprinkle peanuts on top. Stir until all is coated evenly. 6. Transfer popcorn into a large roasting pan and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. 7. Remove from oven and stir in your coarsely chopped Snickers. Return to oven for 3 more minutes so the Twix begin to melt slightly into the popcorn. 8. Remove from pan and transfer popcorn back to wax paper to cool. 9. Drizzle melted chocolate on top of popcorn if desired. 10. Let set and store in an airtight container. SPICY BACON POPCORN Cut up and fry one package of center cut bacon, set aside. Make the caramel recipe as above for the Twix popcorn, but add ½ tsp cayenne pepper in at the same time you add the baking soda. Added the bacon to the caramel and then coat the popped corn. Bake in the oven as above. Depending on the freshness of your cayenne pepper, you need...
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...Case Answers: 1. There are a few key times I think former customers should be reminded of the thoughtfulness, that a gift of Jody’s popcorn could provide. I think the appropriate times would be Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Easter and Christmas. If they have some way of knowing your birthday, that too would be an appropriate time. It really depends on if they have some way of getting more information on the corporation that could provide insight to a corporation. For example for a college, possibly after first semester and the school year would be a good time to promote Jody’s as a good gift for all of Carthage’s staff. 2. From what I gathered in the article, it seems you can really target any type of business. I say this due to the diversity between just holidays, as well as University’s and professional sport’s teams. This widens the reach of the product drastically in my eyes. Possibly if they could purchase an ad in a popular business magazine, with possible promotional code to get people to check out their website. Also they should maintain their social media marketing as well. 4. The first thing I notices is how much more user friendly is then the other premium popcorn sites. The only one that came close to Jody’s was the popcorn factory. I also noticed that Jody’s had their contact information right on top of the page so you can’t miss it. There is nothing worse than having to search to find a companies contact information. I like...
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...which bran of popcorn will pop the best, leaving the fewest un-popped kernels. Experimental design: Pop 100 kernels from 3 different brands of popcorn one brand at a time. Count the number of popped kernels for each brand. Repeat this process for each brand 3 times. Average the number of kernels popped for each brand to determine which brand pops the best. Variables: Dependent - amount of kernels popped. Independent – the product brand/manufacturer will vary with each test group. Controlled – cooking method, time and temperature will be regulated for each test group. Threats to internal validity: Freshness of popcorn kernels could impact ability to pop. In order to reduce this threat, the product dates should be similar. Each brand should have a manufacturing date within 3 days of each other. Hypothesis: All popcorn brands will pop the same, leaving an equal number of un-popped kernels. A1. Introduction Popcorn has been around for hundreds of years. The corn (maize) was introduced to the English settlers by the native Indians in 16th century (“Popcorn”, 2012). When heated, popcorn expends from a hard kernel into a puffed soft substance. Because popcorn is relatively cheap to purchase and make, popcorn is often seen in many areas such as at fairs, carnivals and is practically synonymous with at the movies. There is over one billion pounds of popcorn consumed in America each year (“What is the,” 2011). The love affair with popcorn has been well...
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...4-25-2015 Popcorn Experiment Lakshmi Prakash Project Design Plan Popcorn is a popular treat for individuals. It is made up of dried corn kernels that have the ability to pop when activated by heat, yielding a soft, but crunchy snack. Popcorn can be made over the stove or in a microwavable bag. When the corn kernel is brought to a heat temperature of a boiling point, steam is formed from the water inside the kernel, this causes an intense pressure inside the kernel. Because the outside of the kernel is strong, it’s able to hold and capture the steam inside, which then quickly explodes and turns inside out. This is where we get the soft, but crunchy snack. Literature Review There are many brands of popcorn readily available at the grocery stores. There have been quite a few experiments done to test which one is the best in terms of producing the most amount of popped kernels. Sean Boyd did an experiment, titled “The Jawbreakers of the Popcorn Industry,” where he tested a total of 5 different brands of popcorn to see which one would produce the most kernels. He performed the experiment 3 times on each brand and it was successful. His hypothesis was incorrect, but it yielded an answer that Oroville popcorn was not the best popcorn, but that another brand was. I am using a similar method in my experiment, but based on his results I did not choose Oroville to be the leading popcorn brand (Boyd). Barbara Bolz wrote an article as to why popcorn pops while...
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...interest to buy Cracker Jack came around when its parent company Borden announced the possible sale of the Cracker Jack brand. The executives at Frito-Lay wanted to know the potential of Cracker Jack and designated a team to consolidate the findings, create a plan of action on how to market Cracker Jack as a subsidiary of Frito-Lay, and finally to estimate fair market value of Cracker Jack as a entity. 2. Problem Identification The ready to eat caramel popcorn product category had decreased sales from the year 1995 to 1996. In 1995 there were sales totaling $205 million, and in 1996 it dropped down to $192 million. Besides the drop in sales there is also severe completion in the ready to eat caramel popcorn category that include national brand firms, seasonal/specialty firms, regional firms, and private label firms. Another alarming fact about the ready to eat caramel is that only about 12% of the total U.S. households consume the product. Only 2% of typical U.S. households would consume the ready to eat caramel popcorn every other week, compared to 70% of the population consume salty snacks, and another 31% consume candy. 3. Identify the root problem components Frito-Lay at its core is a global leader in manufacturing snack chips. The Frito-Lay brand consists of some of the biggest and best selling brands in the U.S. supermarkets. Some of its well known brands include Lay’s and...
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...Task 3 The Popcorn Experiment Skye McDonald-George Project Plan and Problem Statement In this project I will be testing whether or not popcorn yields a higher percentage of popped kernels when frozen. This is relevant because most people would like to get the best value out of items they purchased and this may demonstrate one way to do that. I will be freezing multiple bags of popcorn and then popping both frozen and unfrozen bags in the microwave. Finally I will count the popped and unpopped kernels to determine the percentages for both variables and if there is a difference. Literature Review Through my research I did not find any other experiments like my own. I did, however, find two other popcorn experiments that helped me decide on my experimental plan. In both articles, the experimenters were trying to decide which brand of popcorn produced the lowest yield of unpopped popcorn. The Popcorn and College Students describes any broken kernel as popped and any intact kernels as unpopped (Saum, DeLap, Skinner, & Galli, 2003). Tammie Mason’s experiment however gives much more concise direction and describes the mathematics she used to obtain the data (Mason, 2011). Both experiments use the method of counting the kernels to determine a percentage (Mason, 2011) (Saum, DeLap, Skinner, & Galli, 2003). This is the method I will use for my experiment. Experimental Design Steps 1. Place 3 bags of popcorn in freezer. 2. Leave bags of popcorn in freezer 24...
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...brands of popcorn one brand at a time. Count the number of popped kernels for each brand. Repeat this process for each brand 3 times. Average the number of kernels popped for each brand to determine which brand pops the best. Variables: Dependent - amount of kernels popped. Independent – the product brand/manufacturer will vary with each test group. Controlled – cooking method, time and temperature will be regulated for each test group. Threats to internal validity: Freshness of popcorn kernels could impact ability to pop. In order to reduce this threat, the product dates should be similar. Each brand should have a manufacturing date within 3 days of each other. Hypothesis: All popcorn brands will pop the same, leaving an equal number of un-popped kernels. A1. Introduction Popcorn has been around for hundreds of years. The corn (maize) was introduced to the English settlers by the native Indians in 16th century (“Popcorn”, 2012). When heated, popcorn expends from a hard kernel into a puffed soft substance. Because popcorn is relatively cheap to purchase and make, popcorn is often seen in many areas such as at fairs, carnivals and is practically synonymous with at the movies. There is over one billion pounds of popcorn consumed in America each year (“What is the,” 2011). The love affair with popcorn has been well documented an experiments with popcorn can be traced back to the 1940’s. One such experiment is determining which bran of popcorn pops the best...
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...MICROWAVE POPCORN—NAME BRAND OR GENERIC? A. Project Design Plan Popcorn is a favorite snack when a family sits down to watch a movie. With the convenience of microwave popcorn, within two to three minutes you can have your snack while enjoying your movie. The problem is finding the right brand of microwave popcorn that pops the most kernels. I am going to take three different brands of popcorn and find out which one pops the most kernels. We all want the most out of anything we purchase. A1. Literature Review I found multiple web sites performing this same type of experiment. I chose two sites to use for comparison of my work. The fist site I viewed showed Orville Redenbacher’s brand was the best popping corn. However, they counted popped and un-popped kernels to get a percentage of popped kernels. The second site I viewed showed that the Act II brand had the least amount of un-popped kernels. Their experiment is comparable to mine. They counted only the un-popped kernels to get a percentage of un-popped kernels. Just like the second site viewed, I am only focusing on un-popped kernels. A2a. Experimental Design Steps 1. Purchase three different brands of microwave popcorn. Same flavor (butter, kettle corn, natural, etc.) and same size bags, or as close to the same size as possible. 2. Create a data sheet with five columns and three rows. Label the first column “brand name”, label the next three columns with “bag 1, bag 2, and bag 3”. Label the final column...
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... 475 May 31, 2011 Ramalingam Iyer Fresh Pop SWOTT This SWOTT analysis will conduct an external and internal environmental analysis for Fresh Pop Popcorn vending machines. A discussion of the forces and trends will be address including economic as well as legal and regulatory forces. The balance between external and internal forces is a sliding scale. Normally the external forces and trends cause many companies to adjust their internal strategies. However, there are major decisions and recommendation for each forces and trends that will affect Fresh Pop. The environmental analysis will account for the following factors. For each factor, identification of one of the primary strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and trend is analyzed. The economic, global, technological innovation, social, environmental, competitive analysis will be addressed in this paper. The popcorn processing industry has and will continue to work collaboratively - as an industry, and with government food, health, safety and regulatory agencies - to produce a safe, quality product for consumers to enjoy (The Popcorn Board, 2011). Fresh Pop is a Louisiana Corporation established in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana in 2011, Fikisha Daniels when she decided to change careers and became a single parent. She acquired three automated popcorn machines from an already established vender who had retired. When the machines were acquired Fikisha encountered many obstacles in just learning how to operate...
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...Even When Food Tastes Bad Researchers gave groups of people attending a movie a bucket of freshly popped popcorn or a container of stale popcorn to munch on during the show. Moviegoers who didn't regularly go to the movies ate very little of the stale popcorn because they didn't like the taste. On the other hand, those who regularly purchased popcorn at the movies ate the same amount of the crunchy snack whether it was freshly popped or stale. The habit of eating popcorn at the movies was so firmly ingrained they ate it even when it didn't taste good. Even a stale, flavorless bag of popcorn wasn't enough to change their eating habits. This study suggests that once you've formed a bad eating habit, it's likely to persist even when the experience is no longer pleasurable. Outside environmental cues such as being in a movie theater or talking on the phone can be a trigger for some eating behaviors, even more so than the taste of the food itself. How many times have you found yourself mindless munching on something without really tasting it? These automatic eating habits can become so ingrained in your brain that they're very difficult to break. Reigning In Bad Eating Habits The key to breaking bad eating habits is to force yourself to be more aware of what you're eating. In the same study, researchers again asked moviegoers to eat fresh or stale popcorn using either their dominant or non-dominant hand. When the movie watchers used...
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...What type of popcorn will you try? Introduction Materials and Method The three 250mL beakers were weighed to measure the mass of each. Vegetable oil was added to coat the bottom of each beaker, one is labeled Orville, the second white and the third yellow for each kind of popcorn used. The amount of oil and each beaker were weighed. Twenty kernels were added to each beaker and each weighed on the scale. Each beaker was covered with aluminum foil, and a few holes were punched in the top to ventilate the popcorn. The beakers were heated on a hot plate until all the kernels were popped. The aluminum foil was removed and the beakers cooled for about 5 minutes. The mass of each beaker with popped kernels were measured on a scale. The popcorn was removed from each beaker and disposed of and the glass wear was cleaned with soap and water. Results Throughout the experiment, measurements were calculated by grams to get the mass of that object. Table 1 (g) | Orville | White | Yellow | Mass Beaker | 107.5 | 127.5 | 123.1 | Mass Beaker + Oil | 111.5 | 129.1 | 124.9 | Beaker + Oil + Kernels | 114.6 | 131.9 | 127.9 | Mass Kernels- Before | 3.1 | 2.8 | 3.0 | Beaker + Oil + Kernel -After | 113.9 | 131.4 | 127.1 | Kernels- After | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.2 | Water | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.8 | Percentage of Water | 23 % | 18% | 27% | In this experiment, the overall change was the mass of the kernels were decreased after they were heated and popped. The popcorn smelt horrid...
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...time μ: average demand per week σ: standard deviation of demand μL: average demand in lead time σ: standard deviation of in lead time We will optimize order policy for number of bushels. Hence we have converted weekly demand of popcorn into its corresponding weekly demand of number of bushels of corn as a raw material. * Observe histogram from excel attachment which clearly predict that demand of number of bushels of corn per week follows normal distribution with μ = 73.5 and σ = 13.8835 * Hence μL = μ * L = 73.5*3 = 220.5 And, σL = σ*L = 13.8835*3 = 24.0469 * H = $4*12/12 = $4 * L = 3 weeks * D = μ*52 = 73.5*52 = 3822 bushels per annum * Co = $(950 + 0.55Q) i) C = 6.20 + 9% of 6.20 = 6.20 + 0.558 = $6.758 if Q ≤ 100 ii) If order is greater than 100 then 6% discount would be there. 6.20 – 6% of 6.20 = 6.20 – 0.375 = $5.828 C = 5.828 + 9% of 5.828 = 5.828 + 0.5245 = $6.3525 a) Q = 2DCOH = 2*3822*(950+0.55Q)4 Solving this equation for Q we get, Q = 1971.7706 We have two interval for Q. (0, 100] and (100, ∞) Since Q > 100 it falls under second interval and we get discount of 6% on each bushel. Shortage cost per bag of popcorn = $0.16 Let find the shortage cost for shortage per bushel of corn, 1 bag of popcorn weights 200gm contributes 160 gm of corn. 1 bushel contributes 25401.5 gm of corn. Hence, shortage cost per bushel of corn be ps...
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...from the expensive popcorn compared to the cheaper store brand popcorn? Relevance of your testable question Everyone has heard of microwave popcorn. Microwave popcorn is very convenient, and comes in many different brands. Times are very tough in this economy, and many people are trying to find ways to save money. Could you save money by buying the cheaper brand of popcorn, or should you buy the expensive brand of popcorn? Literature Review I found one experiment done by Sean Boyd. He used 3 bags of 5 different brands of popcorn. He cooked all 5 brands using the same microwave, and the same amount of time. He was looking at how many un-popped kernels there were in each different brand. He had concluded that Act II was the best brand as far as un-popped kernels. I found another experiment named, “Which brand of popcorn pops the most.” There was a slight difference in his experiment from my experiment. In this experiment he was using regular popcorn instead of microwave popcorn. He had taken 100 kernels of each brand, and popped those in a popcorn popper. He then counted all the kernels. He counted the ones that popped plus the ones that didn’t. He then came to the conclusion that Act II was the best popcorn based on price and popped kernels. Experimental Design Steps Step 1) Gather all materials. 3 bags of Orville Redenbacher’s microwave popcorn, 3 bags of Act II microwave popcorn, and 3 bags of Kroger brand microwave popcorn, microwave, and...
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