S24E3: Duncan Hines, Americana Restaurant Critic

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Duncan Hines brand is probably as close to a universally beloved product as we get here in the States, but for most of the real life Duncan Hines's seven decades prior to the baked goods thing, no one could have anticipated that outcome. Born in 1880, he came of age in the new era of automobiles, and as a traveling salesman, he developed a habit that would make him an icon of the era: he took meticulous notes about the little roadside eateries he encountered as he traversed the nation in the first decades of the 20th century. Often, he was accompanied by one of his three wives as he eventually built a little publishing empire, and then a successful branding and licensing enterprise that has been gifting Americans with delightful baked goods for the better part of a century. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey y'all and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships, and desserts.
0:08.6	Ha ha, my name is Alicia.
0:10.6	And my name is Stacy.
0:12.2	Hello everyone and thank you for joining us for today's
0:15.0	Oh sweet treat of marital misadventure.
0:19.0	It is the fall time for baking.
0:21.0	Halloween's right around the corner. You got your sweet tooth
0:24.2	sharpened up. You may know him from the cakes and brownie mixes that have
0:29.2	become famous in our culture, but Duncan Hines has a whole other previous history that you might not be very familiar with.
0:36.7	This guy was the king of motoring and he makes some real waves in the food business back before that was a job title.
0:44.5	Yeah, he was an influencer when it wasn't a thing.
0:47.5	Anyway, he is a key part of what we would think of today is Americana and a bit forgotten.
0:53.4	It is a whole ride through many many years three marriages one trashy divorce and many forward
1:00.3	thinking advances in so many ways.
1:03.0	But if you haven't had food poisoning from a restaurant lately,
1:06.0	think Duncan Hines.
1:07.0	He's your man.
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:09.0	He's the guy.
1:10.0	Before we begin our journey across the many, many states of the early 20th century America,
1:16.0	we do have a few fine folks to think.
1:19.0	Alicia who is in our magic mirror today?
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