Friday, November 29, 2024

With a name like Smucker's...

While a lot of people skip lunch altogether, many of us still tie on the noon feedbag every day. Gigantic heaping deli sandwiches, tureens of soup, pizza by the slice, salads, wraps, tacos, quinoa bowls, the list goes on...

I hardly eat any lunch at all, but if I want something while the noon news unravels, I'll get a slice or two of that flourless bread, schmear Skippy and Smucker's Sugar-free raspberry preserves all over everything, and go to town. 

(I don't literally go to town. Town has nothing I need.)

Yes, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are nothing to look down the end of your nose at, now that the mercilessly well-conditioned athletes of the NFL are gobbling 80,000 Uncrustables per week.


In simpler terms, that's equivalent to the weight of three Travis Kelces, who is known to slide Uncrustables down his neck daily.

I've never had one. I'm not out there doing NFL drills every day, so I have time to make my own Sammies.

But in order to keep the hungry maws of both the NFL and the elementary schools of the nation, the J.M. Smucker Co. just built a 900,000-square-foot Uncrustables sandwich manufacturing facility in McCalla, Alabama.

Big sandwich factory 

Smucker introduced the idea of prepackaged sandwiches in 1998 to meet the needs of the many who lack the time to spread PB and J on bread.





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