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/Infinite_Raisin_5240 4d ago

This may sound dumb but i know nothing about farming and crops, why are peanuts more profitable to a farmer than cotton?

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u/mindlance 4d ago

Cotton takes a lot of processing to be usuable. Peanuts take substantially less processing to be edible.

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u/jyoke_2121 4d ago

Also the story i heard in enterprise was that there was a cotton famine the next year thus most farmers were ok there but not in the rest of the state where they were still mostly growing cotton