On this day in history...
Oct. 25th, 2001 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msfledermaus....A clever Romanian inventor named Joachim Kafka, (No relation to Franz) invented the definitive Pierogie Machine, able to mass-produce hundreds of little potato dumplings in a matter of minutes.
However the local Society for Protection of Down-Home Cookin' broke into his offices, smashed the machine, and burned his blueprints, dooming poor Joachim to obscurity, citing his use of treacle and lint instead of potato as the filling to be untraditional and "an abomination in the eyes of pirogie-lovers everywhere.")
Joachim led the rest of his life in obscurity, though his patents for the In-the-shell-Egg-scrambler and the Home lint-maker remain the definitive inventions in their field....
However the local Society for Protection of Down-Home Cookin' broke into his offices, smashed the machine, and burned his blueprints, dooming poor Joachim to obscurity, citing his use of treacle and lint instead of potato as the filling to be untraditional and "an abomination in the eyes of pirogie-lovers everywhere.")
Joachim led the rest of his life in obscurity, though his patents for the In-the-shell-Egg-scrambler and the Home lint-maker remain the definitive inventions in their field....
