In my pursuit of Southern Food Porn, I noticed Gwaltney hot dogs on sale for $.99 for 12 ozs – who could pass up that deal?
What I didn’t know is that old timey Gwaltney brand is actually owned by Smithfield. For a long time, it has been Smithfield isn’t the company I knew 30 years ago. They also own Armour, Eckrich, Morrell Curly’s and a few others.
However, Smithfield has been sold to a Chinese Company
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Outside-View/2013/10/25/Chinas-ownership-of-an-iconic-American-food-company/UPI-75821382673840/
What, me worry?
Well, they are hot DOGS, after all. Enjoy.
They tasted more like ground up wallboard. They actually were mechanically separated chicken (that would make a lovely youtube video) with a little pork and touch of beef thrown in.
Seeing Armour listed there reminded me of the old Dial Armour company, based in Arizona if I’m not mistaken — deodorant and meat, what a combination!
Not as good as Wilson, who makes footballs. You know they say they use every part of the pig but the squeal . The NFL should return to using inflated pig bladders.
The squeals can be found in the Cahulawassee River valley.
Is that a Deliverence reference?
It is… google makes it too easy. 😉
No, just an obvious guess if you saw the movie. That was a great way for Ned Beatty to get typecast.
I used google to find the name of the fictional river valley where the story takes place. Google that fictional name and “you’re in like Flinn”.
Yeah they also own Valleydale, makers of the original ‘Honee-weenee’ . They were headquartered in Salem Virginia.
http://www.valleydale.com/company/companyHistory.html
If you notice, in the history, the old man died in 1988 and family sold the company in 1992 to Smithfield. Hmmmmmm
Well you can’t blame the Chinese. They have a boatload of FRN’s and have to buy something tangible with them. Hell I would to. Thanks to the ‘progressives’, they sold our country out from under us. It don’t look good for us much anymore.
Hate that for the young’uns.
Parrott
FRN = Federal Reserve Note
England has decided to convert all of their paper money to plastic as it lasts longer and offers better protection against counterfeiting. It’s likely we’ll do the same – but of course almost no “money” is pieces of paper – just numbers in a computer that nobody audits.
Evidently the NSA does:
http://www.infowars.com/government-using-nsa-to-change-amount-in-bank-accounts-warns-panel/