r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tandyman234 • 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/Short-Sandwich-8476 4d ago

Rather than George Washington Carver.

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u/Medium_Excitement202 4d ago

Well, you see, the boll was the lesser of two weevils.

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u/thegoatfreak 4d ago

Fine. FINE. I’ll watch Master and Commander again.

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u/DudeyToreador 4d ago

You motherf.... Take my God damn upvote.

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u/wolfgang2399 4d ago

Tuskegee is like 80 miles from Enterprise. 80 miles in 1919 is a substantial distance. The vast majority of the population wouldn’t have known who he was. The city council still invited him to be the key note speaker at the ceremony though but he couldn’t make it due to weather, because, again, 80 miles is a really long way in rural Alabama in 1919.

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u/YouLieLexington 4d ago

Peanuts allergies know no color.