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What Philadelphian came up with the idea of selling popcorn during entertainments?

April 26, 2017came Entertainments IDEA philadelphian popcorn Selling

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What Philadelphian came up with the idea of selling popcorn during entertainments?

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Jacob Bersen came up with the idea while working at Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House in 1911. The idea caught on, and soon he was selling snacks to many of Philadelphia’s theaters. Source: Temple Reviw. Spring 1991, p.23.