Frequency13

EP 022 Microwave Popcorn, Orville Redenbacher, Star Trek TOS and much more!


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Microwave Popcorn owes it's success to both Percy Spencer who filed a patent in 1949, and to the folksy marketing genius of Orville Redenbacher

You can still get a West Bend Stir Crazy on Amazon for $24.99, so even though when Debra Kumm from West Bend said ''Microwave popcorn is a fad" she was very wrong and underestimated the power of convenience.  However, it didn't put popcorn maker out of business there will always be holdouts to the old technology.

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