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Post by lar on Mar 7, 2016 9:09:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 9:43:54 GMT -5
With all the national press sales will be better than ever. They can now take the product from regional to national sales.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 7, 2016 10:12:19 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Mar 7, 2016 10:21:48 GMT -5
Must be some fine pickles, right there.
Way way back, when we were first married and living in Green Bay, Angie got a job at a pickle-making place. They had these enormous wooden vats (yuge! Each one must have been 25' across). The vats were all outside. And all uncovered. And all filled with pickles and brine.
I would often contemplate things as I'd watch large flocks of geese flying by overhead.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 7, 2016 10:33:40 GMT -5
They don't call it mus-turd for nothing.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Mar 7, 2016 10:38:06 GMT -5
I don't like pickles and only rarely use mustard, so I am taking this news fairly well.
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Post by drlj on Mar 7, 2016 10:39:46 GMT -5
Great Mustard Pickle Disaster. Great band.
When they took the stage at Woodstock, 4AM in a light rain, everyone was blown away. I remember Hendrix said, "Man, I have to follow that?"
I love their out of print album, "Put Me on Your Burger, Baby."
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Post by billhammond on Mar 7, 2016 10:48:07 GMT -5
Must be some fine pickles, right there. Way way back, when we were first married and living in Green Bay, Angie got a job at a pickle-making place. They had these enormous wooden vats ( yuge! Each one must have been 25' across). The vats were all outside. And all uncovered. And all filled with pickles and brine. I would often contemplate things as I'd watch large flocks of geese flying by overhead. That is so FUNNY -- I know EXACTLY where you mean, as in the mid 1970s I lived on Smith St., near the intersection of Irwin, and I used to play tennis on the court right next to those vats. Satellite view of Farlin Park today shows that there are now TWO courts, but you can see "crop circly" patterns in the grass from where the vats were. |
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Post by drlj on Mar 7, 2016 12:50:41 GMT -5
Holy moley! Uncovered and outside? There must have been some interesting additives in those pickles.
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Post by lar on Mar 7, 2016 12:58:32 GMT -5
Holy moley! Uncovered and outside? There must have been some interesting additives in those pickles. The enhanced protein content is what made the pickles so popular in Green Bay. One didn't have to rely solely on bratwurst. |
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Post by Doug on Mar 7, 2016 13:02:37 GMT -5
When my great uncle was a bootlegger he kept his mash vat outside till the cow got into it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 13:38:05 GMT -5
When my great uncle was a bootlegger he kept his mash vat outside till the cow got into it. The power of punctuation. When my great uncle was a bootlegger he kept his mash vat outside, till the cow got into it. |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 7, 2016 13:49:44 GMT -5
Well, I can understand our Canadian friends being so upset, seeing how hard it is to smear mustard on anything.
Mike
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Post by drlj on Mar 7, 2016 15:51:51 GMT -5
I rather enjoy some good mustard.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 7, 2016 15:58:32 GMT -5
I rather enjoy some good mustard. You might appreciate, then, this place in Middleton, Wis., a Madison suburb.  |
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Post by RickW on Mar 7, 2016 17:33:03 GMT -5
I can remember getting mustard pickles as a kid, and wondering, "Why the hell would anyone eat this stuff?" My viewpoint hasn't changed much since then.
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Post by drlj on Mar 7, 2016 19:25:28 GMT -5
I rather enjoy some good mustard. You might appreciate, then, this place in Middleton, Wis., a Madison suburb. I have been there. |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 7, 2016 20:16:25 GMT -5
Trader Joes has good mustard.
Mike
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Post by Village Idiot on Mar 7, 2016 22:33:59 GMT -5
I fail to see your guys's interest in Trader Joes. We've been in the one in Des Moines, and besides frozen stuff that is fancier than frozen stuff at other places, haven't found a whole lot to be impressed by. On the other hand, has anyone visited The Fresh Market? They have one in Cedar Rapids, and we like that a whole lot better than Trader Joe's. |
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Post by Tamarack on Mar 7, 2016 23:51:18 GMT -5
I went to college in Holland, Michigan, home of a massive H.J. Heinz pickle plant. They had about 100 vats of pickles outdoors (covered by tarps, which was fortunate considering the abundance of seagulls). Under the right weather conditions, light west wind with high humidity, the aroma of pickles wafted over the campus a mile away.
The urban legend persists to this day of the hapless drunk who crawled under the tarp of a pickle vat to keep warm; his pickled corpse was allegedly found the following spring.
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