My name is Eugenia, better known as Genie.
I am the granddaughter of Eugenia Duke, the mayonnaise lady.
Well my grandmother, I guess, from day one
was an excellent cook and loved to cook,
loved to feed people.
During the first world war,
she started making sandwiches for the soldiers
at Fort Severe.
The soldiers just loved her sandwiches.
She was just known--
Because of the sauce that was on it.
Because it had the special sauce on it.
(mumbles) and one of her friends said,
Eugenia, quit fooling with those sandwiches.
Just make your mayonnaise.
So that's what she did.
She started making her mayonnaise
and my mother said,
that little thing, she got herself a car
and learned how to drive when women didn't even know
how to drive,
and she would drive all over the south
selling her mayonnaise.
It was 1717 when she sold it.
By then she had moved to California
'cause my mother and father,
but I don't know how long after she got there
before she started Duchess Sandwich Company.
I can still see the little yellow trucks
that drove all around Oakland, California
delivering her sandwiches.
When the second world war started,
somehow or other that little thing,
she got the contract for feeding all those shipyard workers.
Those trucks got bigger and bigger and bigger
and they were driving all over delivering
the most wonderful food you ever saw.
She was an entrepreneur and had this,
she was very successful
and, I mean it was kind of uncommon.
A female 100 years ago staring her own company,
and becoming such a success.
Before she could even vote.
I mean yeah, before she even had all of her rights.
That's really what I thought was so cool
was that she couldn't even vote and she was making,
she made 10,000 sandwiches in one day.
But the funny thing is,
not one of us had ever heard of Duke's Mayonnaise.
They didn't sell it in California.
And when Jack and I moved here,
I walked into Harris Teeter and there's
this whole wall of Duke's Mayonnaise.
I said, where did that come from anyway?
I couldn't believe it.
Growing up in California,
we always heard the story
that our great great grandmother had invented mayonnaise.
Mayonnaise.
Yeah it wasn't Duke's Mayonnaise,
I wasn't a certain sandwich spread,
it was mayonnaise in general.
She was the inventor.
We didn't really realize how significant
Duke's Mayonnaise was until we came out here to the south.
In California, no one had really heard of it,
you can't really find it in the grocery stores.
It's kind of rare,
and then you come here and it was everywhere.
That sounds ridiculous, I know,
but she was so humble about it.
That was a section of her life that was over.
She came to California to be with her daughter
and her grandchildren,
and she got settled in there
and then she opened another business cooking something.
I don't know that she would necessarily
have ever been able to dream
that a hundred years later it would still be a legacy.
I mean it would be so huge.
With the 100th anniversary,
there's just this locomotive force
of remembering what a huge role she played
in women's contributions to an area
in a very unlikely time.
She was a woman of great drive, obviously,
and a very loving loving person.
The whole picture was just wonderful.
I think that there is something to say
about this having been a family recipe.
She started out just on her own
and now 100 years later it's the exact recipe
that she was creating in her own kitchen.

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