'Totopoca' is an ancient Aztec word that means, 'The sound of popcorn popping.'
Most historians credit the ancient Aztecs as the 'inventors' of popcorn. They were eating popcorn over four thousand years ago--long, long before the first movie theater came into being. They made it from a wild species of corn called, teosinte. This kind of corn was unfit to make flour with or eat in any way other than by popping. Eventually, the Aztecs began cultivating a different species of corn (the ancestor of today's corn) from which they could make corn flour, which then became the staple food of the Aztecs and other ancient peoples of the Western Hemisphere. But they continued cultivating teosinte corn as well because they had become quite fond of popcorn. You could say they were popcorn aficionados. It always topped their lists of 'most popular snacks.'
So the next time you catch a whiff of popcorn popping stop and listen for the totopoca. When you can hear it, close your eyes and visualize yourself wandering the grand pyramids and other ruins of Mexico and Central America. Visualize yourself going back in time four thousand years. Look around you at the land of the Aztecs. Take a deep breath, close your eyes and sense the Aztec vibe. Take another breath and feel the Aztec mojo.
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