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IDKMYDE: The Snack Heard Around the World · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The snack heard around of the world. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: It als to another episode of the most anticipated podcast
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  Speaker 1: on the Black Effect podcast Network, especially in February, entitled
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know Maybe you didn't either. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: be Dots, and I know I'm getting older because my
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  Speaker 1: favorite flavor of potato chips is playing, followed closely by
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  Speaker 1: sour cream and onion. Third would be salt and vinegar,
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  Speaker 1: and sour cream and chatter were probably round out by
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  Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore chips. And to kick off today's episode, I
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  Speaker 1: would like to give you three of the most useless
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  Speaker 1: facts you'll never need, not a day in life. Your
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  Speaker 1: first useless facts, the potato chip was invented because a
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  Speaker 1: customer was being annoying. Your second useless fact that invention
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  Speaker 1: became a multi billion dollar global industry. And your third
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  Speaker 1: useless fact, the man who made it happen was black
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  Speaker 1: and Native American. Did you know his name? Because I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't I didn't know. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't. All Right, picture this. It's
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  Speaker 1: the eighteen fifties and you're at Moon's Lake House. That's
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant in Sarah Toga Springs, New York. Don't worry that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's fancy, but fancy for the eighteen fifties. And
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  Speaker 1: you're the chef and a customer sends his fried potatoes back.
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  Speaker 1: Their too thick, air, too soggy, they're not crispying out.
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  Speaker 1: So you fix it, but he sends it back again.
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  Speaker 1: It's still not right. Now you're looking at this play
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  Speaker 1: like dude. And here's when the story gets beautiful. The chef,
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  Speaker 1: George Crun instead of losing his job and blanking on buddy,
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  Speaker 1: he sliced them potatoes paper thin, so thin you could
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  Speaker 1: see through them, and he fried him today was as
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  Speaker 1: crunchy as a dope boy's toenails. Then he put Hella
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  Speaker 1: sault on him, sent them back. Oh you on crispy,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you crispy. Bruh was not trying to invent
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  Speaker 1: an industry. He would be in Patty Murphy. But instead
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  Speaker 1: of complaining again, the customer loved them, and so did
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  Speaker 1: everybody else in the restaurant. Then the words spread. People
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  Speaker 1: start coming back to Moon's lake House just for the
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  Speaker 1: Saratoga Chips, And just like that, the potato chip is
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  Speaker 1: born out of Petty now here's the part history skips.
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  Speaker 1: George Crumb was black and Native America. His mama was
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  Speaker 1: a member of the Mohawk Nation, and his daddy was black.
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  Speaker 1: And I would also like to add that there are
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  Speaker 1: sources that credit his sister Kate Wicks, as a co
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  Speaker 1: inventor or maybe even the primary inventor. But that accidental invention,
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  Speaker 1: then just change menus. It created an entire global snack industry.
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  Speaker 1: You walk into any grocery store on Earth and it's
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  Speaker 1: a whole isle of Crumb's idea, lays pringles, kettle chips,
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  Speaker 1: sweet potato chips, barbecue, zach kram and on you that
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  Speaker 1: fancy truffle flavor to cost seven dollars a bag, seven
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  Speaker 1: dollars for some potato chips. But George Crumb's face ain't
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  Speaker 1: on none of the bags. But again, that's infrastructs, a
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  Speaker 1: moment of creativity that becomes a permanent feature of daily life.
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  Speaker 1: And it fits perfectly with the Marching one hundred energy.
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  Speaker 1: Excellence don't always arrive with applause. Sometimes it shows up
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  Speaker 1: in irritation, then innovation, and then execution. Crum didn't set
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  Speaker 1: out the build an industry. He just solved a problem
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  Speaker 1: better than anybody else had done, and then the world
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  Speaker 1: copied the solution, forever hidden in plain sight. Every bag
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  Speaker 1: you open is a tribute to a man most people
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  Speaker 1: never learned about one hundred years after. Woodson's blueprint for
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  Speaker 1: remembering Crumb's invention shows how black ingenuity shapes the world
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  Speaker 1: even when history forgets to record it. And I didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you didn't either.