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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:24 PM
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Musings from the mind of KitchenWitch
Who chose red and white as THE colors for popcorn buckets and why?

:popcorn:
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:24 PM
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1. I love you
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:29 PM
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6. ...
:loveya:
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:26 PM
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2. Hmmm...
Red is the color of warmth, and they wanted to project the idea that the popcorn is warm and fresh, not cold and stale.

And white also projects the idea of pure and fresh.

Either that or someone just picked those colors because they looked good and the printer had lots of red ink in stock. :P
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:27 PM
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3. But
she didn't ask WHY, she asked WHO. :P

Obviously she has already disposed of the why aspect. :D
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:41 PM
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10. Doh!
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:29 PM
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5. I think red ink actually was cheaper than other colors, early last century. nm
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:28 PM
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4. It's because 19th Century Barbers sold popcorn...
as they were all Dentists on the side.

It matched their poles...

White stood for 'courage' and red for 'blood'.

... or something like that ... I think I read about it on 'Snopes'.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:30 PM
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7. !
:rofl:
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:37 PM
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9. Umm... Maybe it was over on the Wiki.
Seriously, I think I know the deeper truth of where the 'Red and White' came from...
Think 'Circus Tent'. ;)
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:31 PM
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8. It's a subliminal message
....I'm not sure what yet, but I'm working on a theory.

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