(06-18-2020 11:08 AM)schmolik Wrote: And the Big Ten has a deal with this bowl. I can't wait until Illinois goes to the Duke's Mayonnaise Bowl!
Yes, IIRC the B1G is now in this bowl in 2020, 2022, and 2024 as part of their deal to split the upgraded Las Vegas Bowl with the SEC. Good for everyone involved.
Quote:Eugenia Thomas was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1881, the youngest of ten children. Her father, a tailor, owned his own shop and no doubt contributed to Eugenia’s knack for business in her early years. In 1900, 19-year-old Thomas married Harry Duke, and their daughter Martha was born a year later. Nearly a decade later, the family relocated to Greenville, South Carolina for Harry’s new job at Southern Power Company.
During the early 1900s, Greenville thrived as a central point of the southern textile industry. The city’s booming economy laid the foundation for Eugenia Duke’s future business to take off. When the United States joined the Allies in 1917, an influx of soldiers arrived in Greenville to train at Camp Sevier, a National Guard Training Camp that operated from 1917 until early in 1919.
It was at Camp Sevier that the Duke’s Mayonnaise legacy began. Noting the hardworking, hungry soldiers-in-training, Eugenia Duke began selling sandwiches slathered with her homemade mayonnaise starting in 1917. Popular favorites like chicken salad, pimento cheese, and egg salad cost a dime each, and Duke made a profit of 2 cents per sandwich – about 40 cents in today’s dollars. On the day that Eugenia sold her 11,000th sandwich, she invested in a delivery truck that enabled her to distribute her increasingly popular sandwiches to more people than ever before. Eugenia’s sandwiches and the mayonnaise that gave them their special flavor were so unforgettably delicious that years after they’d left the camp, soldiers wrote to Eugenia begging for her sandwich recipes and jars of her delectable spread.
Greenville locals noticed how famous Eugenia’s sandwiches were becoming at the camp and began asking where they could buy Duke’s sandwiches in town. After the war ended, Eugenia began selling her sandwiches at local drugstores including Carpenter Brothers, Community Drug Store, and Greenville Pharmacy. Then she converted the first floor of Greenville’s historic Ottaray Hotel into Duke’s Tea Room, where she sold her sandwiches and a variety of side dishes. By the early 1920s, word of Eugenia’s delicious sandwiches was spreading rapidly. The kitchen in Eugenia’s Manly Street home was too small to keep up with all the orders she received, so she built a separate kitchen building on her property to keep up with the sandwich requests that flooded in every week.
In 1923, Eugenia’s top salesman, C.B. Boyd, noticed something important. Eugenia’s classic and simple sandwiches were delicious, but it was her tangy spread that was truly distinctive and kept people wanting more. Though her sandwich enterprise was still flourishing, Boyd urged Duke to shift her efforts to the mayonnaise that made her sandwiches so flavorful. As a result, Duke began selling her mayonnaise as a separate product. Together with her accountant J. Allen Hart, Duke opened an office on the South Main Street in Greenville’s West End and began producing her original mayonnaise in an old coach Factory building next to the Reedy River. Sure enough, Duke’s Mayonnaise took off and Eugenia sold her sandwich business to Hart in order to focus her attention solely on the spread. The sandwich operation, named Duke Sandwich Company, still operates in Greenville today.
(06-18-2020 09:19 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote: Just another incredible sponsor for the "Continental Tire/Meineke Car Care/Belk Department Store" Bowl...
Never heard of Duke's Mayo but then I never heard of Beef O'Brady either until it sponsored a bowl. Guess that's what sponsorship and marketing are all about.
Like many things you can tell the difference between brands on items that showcase that difference the most. A burger has a lot of strong flavors so the mayo would be harder to tell but on that tomato sandwich mentioned earlier the difference in mayo brands is much more pronounced since the spread will be much more important on the flavor profile.
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Belk Bowl now Duke's Mayonnaise Bowl
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