How It's Made: Canned corn

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How It's Made: Canned corn

A cable TV Science channel program, "How It's Made" delves into exactly
that.

A segment was canned corn.

"Very interesting!" --Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 ("Get Smart")

Another start to finish assembly line expos?.

The one very interesting thing I learned is, what's the worst job on
Earth! The people standing along a section of the line with spatulas
sweeping through the corn on the belt for irregularities. That job has
to get old after a few seconds!!!

Kernel Inspector. Something you might want to leave off your resume when
applying for a job as Pea Picker Pecker. LOLOL!!!

Geez...

Andy
 
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:54:37 -0500, Andy wrote:


I've disagreed with some of what you've said in the past, but I have
to say one thing about you; you have a great sense of humor!

Person by person, I've had more belly laughs from your comments than
anyone else's here.

Keep it up!
 
Landon wrote:

exactly
when


Landon,

Thank you. I will try!

[bow]

My longest time friend/teammate/best man and I would volley humor back
and forth at each other. We still do. It became a habit I can't shake.
;)

Best,

Andy
 
"Andy" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

I once had a roommate who had a friend who worked at a plant that made
instant mashed potatoes. His job was to stand at the top of a huge barrel
type thing with a push broom. He said the potatoes were soaked in some sort
of caustic solution that sort of ate the peel off. He used the broom to
scuff up the potatoes and hasten the process.
 
"Chemo the Clown" wrote in message
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On Apr 20, 6:41 pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

Probably Union job and making $27/hour.

As a young man I once had a job circumcising elephants.
The pay was poor but the tips were large.
 
"Julie Bove" wrote:



Julie,

A friend had a terrible job at General Mills, during high school summer
vacation. They were testing an upcoming brand of instant coffee. His job
was to force feed dozens of lab rats with a concentrate of the coffee
with a flexible syringe. Every rat tried to fly out of their cages the
instant he opened the door. He had to literally catch them. I forget
what data was collected. Poor rats!

I couldn't do that!

Best,

Andy
 
I had a friend that worked one summer at Del Monte or Libby's canning
corn. He said the starch from the corn would splash on his jeans all
day long and he could take them off at night and they would literally
be so stiff they would stand by themselves.
 
On 21/04/2011 12:49 PM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
I took a tour once through a big name chocolate factory here in Au ,
huge vats with open tops (20 years back) which when emptied had
preserved rodents in the bottom along with other refuse , it took a
long time and another brand before I could take chocolate again
I assume things are \different these days

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"Chemo the Clown" wrote in message
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On Apr 20, 6:41 pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

Probably Union job and making $27/hour.

I don't think he made very much.
 
On 2011-04-20, Andy wrote:


When I was a pup, I worked at a cannery that did corn. Women did most
of the inspection work cuz they were more patient. The thing that
baffled me was, the machines that cut the kernels off the cob had to
be heavily oiled to keep the cutter blades from sticking, yet the corn
itself literally oozed corn oil. So, you'd see two distinct types of
oil dripping onto the floor, literally in streams, from the corn
kernel cutters.

I was in the cook room, so didn't get too involved with those
machines. OTOH, I volunteered to clean the creamed corn votators on
Sunday. They ran/cooked the cream slurry for creamed corn through
long steam jacketed tubes with spiral paddles the moved and mixed the
slurry from one end to the other. By Sunday, the paddles were covered
with an almost rubber-like film from the week long slurry cooking.

A cannery ran 7 days a week during canning season, which lasted about
4-8 mos. People didn't take days off during canning season. Everyone
worked one of three 8 hr round-the-clock shifts during the week and a
sigle 10-12 hr shift on Sunday day to clean the entire cannery and
machines for Mon. Sunday was voluntary, but most ppl worked it. Yes,
it was union and payed good money. One of the most fun jobs I ever
worked at. ;)

nb
 
On 21/04/2011 12:15 AM, notbob wrote:

I once heard about the loss of a finger in a cannery from three
different sources, all in a short period of time. I had a friend who
said that his mother opened up a can of tomatoes and there was a finger
in it. They lived just a few blocks from a grocery store where my
brother worked, and he told me about this guy's mother bringing in a can
of tomatoes with a finger in it. I was in university at the time and
knew a girl who who worked in a cannery that summer, the same cannery as
the product with the finger. A girl who worked with her lost a finger
and it went in with the rest of the product. Apparently it got canned.
 
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