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NATIONAL POPCORN DAY IS JANUARY 19<\/strong><\/p>\n Perhaps you started the new year with a bang and pop–as in popcorn. People often\u00a0give decorator\u00a0canisters filled with popcorn\u00a0as holiday gifts because popcorn has broad appeal in the U.S. As a matter of fact, Americans are the largest consumers of popcorn in the world with the average citizen\u00a0eating\u00a0one quart per week. With that kind of popularity it seems that every day is popcorn day in the USA.\u00a0We like to buy Trader Joe’s lightly salted olive oil popcorn but the variations are endless. For instance, Popcorn Bistro in Louisiana touts 153 flavors such as Strawberry Cheesecake, Bananas Foster, M&M, Loaded Baked Potato, Buffalo Wings, Dill Pickle\u00a0and\u00a0Boiled Crawfish. See more about popcorn<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Costa Mesa, Calif. the Orange County Market Place hosts\u00a0a popcorn festival on the Saturday and Sunday nearest National Popcorn Day. This year they are throwing a popcorn bash on Jan. 17 & 18, 2015. Attractions include free popcorn from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days and entertainment from Kaptain Kernel who juggles popcorn balls and does all sorts of funny things with popcorn.\u00a0Admission is $2 for ages 13 years and over, and free for children 12 and under and military with identification. ocmarketplace.com \u00a0(Note: OC Marketplace extended its free admission coupon<\/a>\u00a0which is good throughout 2015. Enjoy!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NATIONAL POPCORN DAY IS JANUARY 19 Perhaps you started the new year with a bang and pop–as in popcorn. People often\u00a0give decorator\u00a0canisters filled with popcorn\u00a0as holiday gifts because popcorn has broad appeal in the U.S. As a matter of fact, Americans are the largest consumers of popcorn in the world with the average citizen\u00a0eating\u00a0one quart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}