1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: The snack heard around of the world. Welcome back to 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: It als to another episode of the most anticipated podcast 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:17,080 Speaker 1: on the Black Effect podcast Network, especially in February, entitled 4 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 1: I didn't know Maybe you didn't either. I'm your host, 5 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: be Dots, and I know I'm getting older because my 6 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: favorite flavor of potato chips is playing, followed closely by 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: sour cream and onion. Third would be salt and vinegar, 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: and sour cream and chatter were probably round out by 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore chips. And to kick off today's episode, I 10 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: would like to give you three of the most useless 11 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,279 Speaker 1: facts you'll never need, not a day in life. Your 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: first useless facts, the potato chip was invented because a 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: customer was being annoying. Your second useless fact that invention 14 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: became a multi billion dollar global industry. And your third 15 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: useless fact, the man who made it happen was black 16 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: and Native American. Did you know his name? Because I didn't. 17 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't I didn't know. I didn't know. 18 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't. All Right, picture this. It's 19 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: the eighteen fifties and you're at Moon's Lake House. That's 20 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: a restaurant in Sarah Toga Springs, New York. Don't worry that. 21 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: But it's fancy, but fancy for the eighteen fifties. And 22 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: you're the chef and a customer sends his fried potatoes back. 23 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: Their too thick, air, too soggy, they're not crispying out. 24 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: So you fix it, but he sends it back again. 25 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: It's still not right. Now you're looking at this play 26 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: like dude. And here's when the story gets beautiful. The chef, 27 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: George Crun instead of losing his job and blanking on buddy, 28 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: he sliced them potatoes paper thin, so thin you could 29 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: see through them, and he fried him today was as 30 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: crunchy as a dope boy's toenails. Then he put Hella 31 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: sault on him, sent them back. Oh you on crispy, 32 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: I'll give you crispy. Bruh was not trying to invent 33 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 1: an industry. He would be in Patty Murphy. But instead 34 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: of complaining again, the customer loved them, and so did 35 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: everybody else in the restaurant. Then the words spread. People 36 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: start coming back to Moon's lake House just for the 37 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: Saratoga Chips, And just like that, the potato chip is 38 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: born out of Petty now here's the part history skips. 39 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: George Crumb was black and Native America. His mama was 40 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: a member of the Mohawk Nation, and his daddy was black. 41 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: And I would also like to add that there are 42 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: sources that credit his sister Kate Wicks, as a co 43 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: inventor or maybe even the primary inventor. But that accidental invention, 44 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: then just change menus. It created an entire global snack industry. 45 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: You walk into any grocery store on Earth and it's 46 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: a whole isle of Crumb's idea, lays pringles, kettle chips, 47 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: sweet potato chips, barbecue, zach kram and on you that 48 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: fancy truffle flavor to cost seven dollars a bag, seven 49 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,119 Speaker 1: dollars for some potato chips. But George Crumb's face ain't 50 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: on none of the bags. But again, that's infrastructs, a 51 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: moment of creativity that becomes a permanent feature of daily life. 52 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: And it fits perfectly with the Marching one hundred energy. 53 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: Excellence don't always arrive with applause. Sometimes it shows up 54 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: in irritation, then innovation, and then execution. Crum didn't set 55 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: out the build an industry. He just solved a problem 56 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: better than anybody else had done, and then the world 57 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: copied the solution, forever hidden in plain sight. Every bag 58 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,959 Speaker 1: you open is a tribute to a man most people 59 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,679 Speaker 1: never learned about one hundred years after. Woodson's blueprint for 60 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: remembering Crumb's invention shows how black ingenuity shapes the world 61 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: even when history forgets to record it. And I didn't know, 62 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: maybe you didn't either.