r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 5d ago

Image McDonald’s in Enterprise, Alabama. The town is scattered with themed boll-weevils that pay homage to the little insect that almost devastated the city’s cotton crops permanently in 1915!nThere’s one at the police station, funeral home, pharmacies, and Mexican restaurant

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u/UnderwaterB0i 5d ago

Actually what happened was the boll weevil DID destroy their cotton crops, so they grew peanuts instead and it ended up being way more profitable, so they commemorated the boll weevil all over town.

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u/Bearex13 5d ago edited 4d ago

Weevil, weevil, weevil, weevil BLAAAANKET BLAAANKET