When I bought my house about 25 years ago from a mortician there were all kinds of weird things left in the garage. This was one of them. I had no idea what it was. But I guess about 7 years ago, the Antiques Road Show came to Chicago… Well this was one of the things that I brought down to them, and everybody wanted to study it, and look at it, and figure out what it was, and nobody could. It’s a French fry maker! So I thought this was going to be this thing that I took to the Antiques Road Show right because hey, it’s worth $100,000. Well nobody knew what the heck it was…

What museum should it go into, is the Ron Popeil Museum! That guy who made the Chop-O-Matic, and the Veg-O-Matic, “But wait there’s more!”

 Exhibited by Bennie Welch

Transcript edited by Sarah Crawford