Worth the read. Thanks and a bimpitty-bump-bomp.
Spatula City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbCWmY0eqY
Spatula City
LOL! Why do I love this kind of trivia?
Ray Kroc invented the Kroc pot. Most people misspell the word not know who the inverter was. This is how he raised money to start the McDonald’s restaurant chain.
Also perfect for scratching your back. Especially after you sit on the couch without a shirt and there is no fabric on the cushions.
This article seems a bit too much to be real. But I suppose life can be weirder than fiction.
“Neccesity is the mother of invention” was is?! Cool
Arms cut up with his fork/knife thingy?
And finally - his wife runs off with his bum of a boss?
Good looking guy though - looks more “modern” than I would think. Why do all the old photos usually show some ugly guy or gal?
Spaduala had it pretty rough. This Kruger chap permanently disfigures the guy's hand, fires him, and runs off with his wife. All of this on top of the possibility (depending on whose story one believes) that his immensely successful invention was essentially stolen from him.
More than enough to put someone over the edge.
It says in a comment at the bottom that the author’s full name is Mike Fork.
That would explain why he got interested in kitchen utensils.
I never heard of a spatula till I was in my teens and on a camping trip. One of the kids was cooking something and asked me to hand him the spatula.
I said “What is a spatula?” He then pointed to it and I said “OH, you mean the EGG TURNER!”
That is what all our family called it.
Origin
1515-25; < Latin: a flat piece, batten, equivalent to spath(a) spathe + -ula -ule
Somebody cue the kitchen scene with Bill Murray and Sean Young in STRIPES.
It started out as a multi-purpose cure for hemorrhoids and enlarged prostate, but he left it out in the kitchen after washing it and grandma saw it and assumed it was to juice oranges.
He never made any money off of it and his prostate never got any better.
I just don’t seem to care any more. Watching everyone get lied to, and watching them like it. Mediocre people learning from mediocre people. Intelligent people being demonized.
Suck it up people. Believe it. It is your destiny to be fooled by the people you’ve empowered. Communism works, the wealth of the knowledgeable, well mannered rich should be plundered, and a wop named Spaduala invented something in the 19th century that the Romans used two millennia ago.
Latin: Spatula — Little Sword, Bread Sword.
COOKING INVENTION PING.