1930s Egg Beater & Potato Masher

1930s Egg Beater & Potato Masher

Approximately 9" & 11"

The egg beater is made by Androck. It features bakelite handles. It's stamped with the "Androck" and "Pat no 1767454 Made in U.S.A." and we also have a very old potato Masher.

MR. POTATO'S GENEALOGY
If Mr. Potato Head looked into the past, he would see that .."potatoes were a staple food for the Inca Empire and also for the Spainards who conquered the Incas and remained in Latin America mining silver."

COME SAIL AWAY, COME SAIL AWAY..
"Sailors who returned to Spain from the Andes brought potatoes back along with the silver, and historians have speculated that potatoes that were not eaten on the voyages were taken ashore and planted before the end of the 16th century."

ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO..NO POTATO
Potatoes were not popular at all in Europe. Potatoes were so unappetizing to the French, that the government passed a law banning them as a food source for humans in 1748. Potatoes were only used for animal feed in France, while some believed that they actually caused leprosy!

OH LA LA THE IRONY.
"Ironically, it was a Frenchman who was one of the first people to discover one of the tastiest variations of the potato, a dish that would become increasingly popular over the course of three centuries, namely.... mashed potatoes."

**FYI - Although my native language, English makes no sense at times..

"We add an e to the plural of potato and tomato because if the last vowel in a word is long, we add another letter to separate the vowel from the ending"