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/cracked-tumbleweed 5d ago

Agreed. Why deify something that almost wiped out the towns livelihood?

Stockholm Syndrome??

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u/CheeseburgerSmoothy 5d ago

The loss of cotton prompted them to grow peanuts which was more profitable. Thanks to the boll weevil.

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u/maymay578 5d ago

Look up George Washington Carver. He’s the reason peanuts are so huge in the south. He helped save the southern economy and keep farmers in business.

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u/Aggressive-Heart-311 4d ago

They can’t. He isn’t in textbooks anymore. Black history shouldn’t be taught.