All About the Spreckels

[00:00] All right, Coalson, it's time for Undegoogle.
[00:11] Oh, we doing Undegoogle rules?
[00:13] That was the play of super excited.
[00:16] Told us we had to.
[00:19] He said we signed up for it.
[00:23] In the end, it's going to be better and more true than Google can give you.
[00:29] So I got a good one this week, and it was sent in by...
[00:33] I saw one of the crappy ones.
[00:35] Sometimes they're crappy.
[00:38] The bed size thing didn't really work out.
[00:40] You never know where they're going to go.
[00:43] But this week, I'm excited about this one.
[00:45] This is from fellow analyst, the enforcer Jon Harper sent this in.
[00:50] Wondered the etymology of the phrase sugar daddy.
[00:57] Which I think is pretty solid.
[01:00] I was thinking about it a little bit this week.
[01:02] The first thing that came to my mind is when somebody calls you sugar.
[01:05] You know, the old ladies at the diner.
[01:08] Sort of connected to sweet or something like that.
[01:13] That was my only question.
[01:14] So this is sugar daddy in the sense that this is the person that provides for you.
[01:22] Yeah, like Harper's my sugar daddy.
[01:24] Right. Like right now, Harper's your sugar daddy.
[01:27] No, there's a sexual component.
[01:28] Right, there is.
[01:29] There's true.
[01:31] Which I wasn't sure this would be a great one,
[01:33] because I'm pretty sure it came from some pimp somewhere.
[01:36] Okay. All right. Fair.
[01:38] Probably.
[01:39] Hey, this is an adult program.
[01:41] It'll be fine.
[01:42] Yeah, we'll click the explicit lyrics.
[01:44] Let's see how it goes.
[01:46] Yeah, I think probably traditionally it meant had a sexual component to it.
[01:51] But I think now in the parlance, it's also used sort of non-sexually, right?
[02:00] I don't know.
[02:01] I think I always think of a sugar daddy as a like some sort of sexual partner
[02:06] Yeah, like a not very good looking older rich dude who's married a beautiful woman
[02:12] who's half his age who's, you know, I sort of think something like that.
[02:16] I think he's the sugar daddy.
[02:19] And vice versa with the sugar mama, you know.
[02:23] Sure.
[02:25] And so the question is like why sugar?
[02:28] I think probably.
[02:31] Okay.
[02:32] Okay.
[02:33] So again, is it sweetness?
[02:35] Is it there?
[02:36] Is the sugar connected to money somehow?
[02:40] Is there slang where you connect sugar with money?
[02:44] Are we just, is the slang sugar connected just to sex?
[02:48] I mean, if it does go back farther, I mean, sugar used to be an expensive resource, right?
[02:54] Sure.
[02:58] But you would think it would have been like salt daddy or something like that.
[03:01] When's the invention of sugar?
[03:03] Should we get that in there?
[03:04] The invention of sugar.
[03:06] The invention of sugar?
[03:07] That's right.
[03:10] It's right after the invention of water.
[03:14] No, I mean, I guess I mean, sugar cane produced mass.
[03:19] I don't know.
[03:20] Maybe the beginning of confections.
[03:22] I mean, I suppose that's really old too.
[03:25] What are we making pies and sweet things out of them?
[03:28] I mean, yeah, we've been making sweet stuff since the dawn of time.
[03:33] Time.
[03:33] Yeah.
[03:34] Like I would say that the sugar industry, as we know it now, probably started
[03:43] post-Columbian era or whatever, as the sugar cane got distributed more widely,
[03:53] right, from its indigenous habitats or whatever, right?
[03:58] Yeah.
[03:58] So you could grow it more in more places, more widely and distributed across the world, right?
[04:04] But that's the story.
[04:06] So like a slave triangle sort of thing?
[04:08] Right, exactly.
[04:10] But we're saying it's probably since the 1500s though.
[04:14] I think it's just a nice confluence of sugar in a whatever, like sexual
[04:22] like favor sense.
[04:24] Give me some sugar.
[04:25] Yeah.
[04:26] Right.
[04:27] And money also being like a sweet thing.
[04:32] That's why the pimp is a pretty good guess.
[04:35] Yeah.
[04:35] Except that he doesn't provide the pimp doesn't provide the money.
[04:40] Well, that's not the story that he tells.
[04:42] Okay, good call.
[04:44] He does.
[04:44] He's taking care of them, right?
[04:45] That's what he's saying.
[04:46] Sure.
[04:47] Okay.
[04:50] Well, pimps have been around forever.
[04:53] So we need to give this an era at some point.
[04:57] I don't know how long pimps have been around.
[04:59] No.
[05:01] I mean, there used to be brothels.
[05:03] Yeah.
[05:04] And madams.
[05:06] Probably pimps.
[05:08] Bored their pimps back then.
[05:10] I feel like that's a 20th century invention.
[05:15] Okay.
[05:16] So you wouldn't call the proprietor of a brothel a pimp?
[05:21] I mean, that's not what we call them generally.
[05:25] I mean, it seems like that was...
[05:26] I mean, normally we would call them madams.
[05:28] So it seems like they were...
[05:29] That was a position that was largely controlled by women back in the day.
[05:35] Right.
[05:36] Right.
[05:39] Which is probably superior in many ways.
[05:41] Right.
[05:43] Right.
[05:46] And so a pimp is somebody that basically runs a brothel,
[05:50] but without the structure.
[05:53] Without the brick and mortar.
[05:54] Without the brick and mortar, yeah.
[05:57] Okay, got it.
[05:59] We're learning things here.
[06:01] So you think that if pimps are a 20th century innovation,
[06:12] then sugar daddy would probably also be a 20th century term.
[06:17] Okay.
[06:21] And we don't think the sugar is connected to the money.
[06:26] I think it's just a nice double entendre for money.
[06:33] That's mine.
[06:34] So 20th century sugar is both about...
[06:39] It's both people getting sugar.
[06:42] We did forget about the sugar daddy bar.
[06:43] There's a sugar daddy candy.
[06:45] There's a sugar daddy candy bar.
[06:46] Oh, that's great.
[06:47] Awkward.
[06:49] So here on sugardaddy.com, I'm reading that the most widespread legend back in 1908,
[06:58] a man named Adolf Shprickles, who was the son of Klaus Shprickles,
[07:04] the owner of Shprickles Sugar Company,
[07:07] married a rather attractive woman Alma, who was 24 years younger.
[07:12] Since Shprickles ran a successful sugar company and was a lot older than Alma,
[07:17] she reportedly liked to call him sugar daddy.
[07:20] I'd rather be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
[07:25] Alma used to say.
[07:29] It took a while for the expression to catch on.
[07:32] First ever recorded use in 1923.
[07:37] Blah, blah, blah.
[07:38] First known cultural reference refers to on the 27th of March 1923,
[07:45] when it popped up during an episode of a surreal tale titled Fat Anna's Future.
[07:50] The term became so ubiquitous that a large caramel lollipop of the time
[07:54] changed its name from Papa Sucker to sugar daddy.
[07:58] Papa Sucker.
[08:00] The word sugar was a slang term for money at that time.
[08:06] Back in the old 20s.
[08:08] All right.
[08:13] We'll just say we were right then.
[08:15] Yeah, no, the fact that it was directly connected to the candy bar,
[08:19] I mean, not directly, but it was actually a sugar confection company,
[08:23] owner of one that was the original sugar daddy.
[08:27] It is also known as a glucose guardian.
[08:30] And it's all about the sprinkles.
[08:35] All about the sprinkles.
[08:36] I like food.
[08:37] Good question though.
[08:38] Yeah, I like putting sprinkles on my ice cream.
[08:41] All right.
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