Seadog Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 How ironic - these two news stories were published today: Final Production Day at Shuttered Kraft Heinz Plant According to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal, Kraft Heinz will shut down the final production line at its Oscar Mayer plant in Madison, WI today. The production line is manufacturing thinly sliced ham. The plant has been manufacturing hot dogs and cold cuts for about 98 years. According to the report, about 110 employees were still working at the mostly vacant plant, 15 were assigned to the production line. About 30 will remain on staff until July, cleaning the plant and dismantling equipment. The plant once employed 4,000 people in the 1970s. As of 2013, the company still had 1,300 employees based in Madison. At one point, the plant was packaging 10,000 pounds of hot dogs per hour. The Madison factory was one of seven plants to be closed after Kraft Heinz announced restructuring in November 2015. Of those, plants in Pennsylvania, Maryland, California, and Ontario, Canada have already been closed. --------------------In a related story-------------------- Kraft Nearly Doubles Wiener Fleet Kraft is nearly doubling its wiener fleet. This week, Kraft announced two new additions to the Oscar Mayer WienerFleet currently anchored by the traditional WienerMobile, as well as the WienerRover and WienerMini (just a lot of odd co-branding going on there). A new WienerCycle has been added to the wheeled fleet, and the WienerDrone is set to take the sausage party to the sky and air drop one hot dog at a time. The quadcopter has a max flight time of 15 minutes when holding a single dog cargo (its max payload) with a range of one mile. Though the WienerDrone can stay up for nearly twenty minutes if it has already delivered its load. The pilot still mans the cockpit from the ground, and the company gave no indication as to when the drone may start autonomously delivering hot dogs. I am, however, interested in the targeting intelligence that the chopper would use when selecting recipients. The new WienerCycle is a three-wheeled moped with a sidecar that doubles as a hot dog warming station that fits up to six dogs, end-to-end. According to the company, the 8.5 HP moped gets 80 mpg. Essentially, it's a moped with a new paint job and a WienerRover tacked to the side of it. The new WienerFleet will debut in Weiner, Arkansas for the Fourth of July. http://click.reply.ien.com/?qs=d632a6722f8b2e4dc8b6a4126f656e61322fe9618a90b28b6bdb3383274f2b9c7bb41654a9d3903da8db9ae661fa8161ccfb58d863da27ba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Where do they make their wieners now after the plant closing? JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 5 minutes ago, Seadog said: Kraft Nearly Doubles Wiener Fleet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDBRbuilder Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 23 minutes ago, JJkizak said: Where do they make their wieners now after the plant closing? JJK You'll never know the definitive answer to that since FDA stopped requiring "country of origin" on labels on foods. Kinda funny that happened right before allowing the shipping of poultry to China for processing and packaging, and return to our shores...wonder if there was any kind of connection between the two? LOL! But, to give my best guess on your question: I would guess...CHINA! BTW, I see a name change in the future for Vienna Sausages: 維也納香腸 Have you ever wondered about the definition of "mechanically-separated chicken"?? Sure you have!!!! Well...being from chicken country in Arkansas...and knowing how things REALLY are...Not ALL of the chickens loaded onto the chicken trucks for delivery to the processing plants really make it TO the chicken plants. Many manage to get loose and end up along the roads traveled by the trucks...and the ones that get run over by other traffic on those roads are generally "mechanically-separated" to various levels and types of smithereens to at least some extent...sooooooo....just saying... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted June 29, 2017 Moderators Share Posted June 29, 2017 That is two strange stories, I would rather have the dogs made here and skip the wienermobiles. 47 minutes ago, HDBRbuilder said: Well...being from chicken country in Arkansas.. It sure is chicken country, when working at the museum a chicken truck passes every 15-20 min it seems going to the chicken plant at the end of the road. You never see trucks leaving with leftover parts and pieces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 ---- and in a related story on Jay Lenos Garage TV show last night I saw him driving the Wienermobile and put a whippin' on the Planters Peanutmobile. Jay "smoked" the Peanut - all he could see was Jays buns and smell his Kraut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 every wiener dies, but few wieners truly live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 19 minutes ago, oldtimer said: every wiener dies, but few wieners truly live. Not even Weiner's wiener? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Photographs steal the soul. Do the math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 17 minutes ago, oldtimer said: Photographs steal the soul. Do the math. What about Snapchat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Just now, CECAA850 said: What about Snapchat. What's the difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Just now, oldtimer said: What's the difference? Snapchat is temporary. It just borrows the soul for a moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 after eating Chinese wieners you have to 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjimbo Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 3 hours ago, JJkizak said: Where do they make their wieners now after the plant closing? Mar-A-Lago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Then they go straight HERE and are eaten at a 15000/day clip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 33 minutes ago, CECAA850 said: Snapchat is temporary. It just borrows the soul for a moment. I bet it stays permanently in the cloud, to forever roam the nether world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjimbo Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 5 minutes ago, oldtimer said: to forever roam the nether world. When I see it, I'll let you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 3 minutes ago, jimjimbo said: When I see it, I'll let you know. I sincerely hope you don't (see it). We are talking about a wiener. In this case, a soulless wiener. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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