I've read that as well, but not in GQ ;)

SNL has a few old cast members on and they are doing the old NPR food show. They are talking about Betty White's muffins. :eek: (funny)

I knew a Dbag in law school who had his dress shirts monogrammed. I asked him if that was because he was prone to forgetting his own name, or if he got them confused with the other shirts on the motel room floor.

:D:D:D

He proclaimed them to be regal. I had five people calling him "your highness" for a week.

I wish our plants offered tours. Just the sheer speed/scale of some of our processes is pretty amazing - the machines that make Kraft Singles produce >1000 slices/minute. I actually found a little picture of one out on the Internet, so I can at least show that:

http://www.natec.de/english/iws.htm

A single machine takes hot cheese, extrudes it into a ribbon, wraps in plastic, cools it to refrigerated temperatures, cuts it into individual slices, stacks the slices, then puts an overwrap around them.

I've been to a couple of plants that don't offer tours. ^

The M&M/Mars plant in Hackettstown was pretty cool. (Bad batches of chocolate get sold to pig farmers.)

The All Candy Expo in Chicago usually offers a tour.

Also, seeing how they screen the logo on every little Jelly Belly® is awesome.

Some of you may be interested in http://factorytoursusa.com/

That is a pretty amazing rate of Kraft singles. That would be fascinating to watch. I truly never tire of watching the manufacturing process and seeing new ones, despite being around it for the past 40 years.

Great site, thanks.

I just remembered that as a kid, I went on a field trip to a brick factory, Castaic Brick. ("Building America Since 1950." Hey, that's practically ancient for SoCal.)

And, to the best of my recollection, the bricks didn't love anybody. :rolleyes:

^ Back when we had a factory in the good ole US of A, I was in charge of our factory tours. I enjoyed doing it, especially the school tours.

For the pigs or the farmers?:confused:

Calendar update post in 2.0. (hint morning of footie do) I will be sending a PM tomorrow about it.

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Two buddies and I got a private showing of the Kellogs tour a while back. That's a great story.

Most ridiculous wedding ever tonight. The second band started playing at 12:45am. Booze switched to self-serve around 2am. We left before it ended, even with a nap mid-afternoon. Great time.

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Missing Frontier and Allegient. The others are all covered.

Way past my bed time...