Today's Funny

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Hmm? Heading through Le Seuer today.

As a kid I always kept a pee can outside the tent when camping out in the backyard.

As a boy we kept the pee can (slop jar, thunder jug, combinette) under the bed with a lid on it.

Always hated getting out of bed when the pee can was froze in the morning. Hoped dad had the stove lit down stairs.

My dad always claimed that he didn't understand a can-o-pee bed. He'd say how dumb it was. The can-o-pee went under the bed.

Rick

They still have offices there right? The canning line closed some time ago it a too old to rehab and had other newer setup down the road a ways?

Paul

(quoted from post at 03:16:21 10/22/18) .

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Good to know someone out there knows the difference......especially when it comes to making the pie! :shock:

proper diction is important.

Also proper spelling.

The best are found at your local supermarket. Buy a quart bottle of Tropicana orange juice. Works well and even has a screw on lid. If you have ever thrown out your back and can't move you know what I mean.

My brother worked there many moons ago when it was Green Giant own by General Mills. Today it?s Green Giant and I don?t think think they do as much canning as they did.GG in Le Seuer is owned by B&G (Bloch & Guggenheimer) of Parsippany NJ. Maybe Larry can help us there. I actually think there might be more canning activity at Glencoe in the Seneca plant as I?ve seen a definite influx of sweet corn, peas, and edible beans crops move into Meeker, Kandiyohi, and Stearns county.

The canopy on bed was to keep the thatch off the bed.

In the 50s they had a plant in Montgomery. Older brother went to St. John"s U and worked summers there for college money. Was a mechanic that chased around the area fixing pea cutters. They were AC Model C with a little swather on the back, run in reverse. Weekend nights he"d round up the tipsy Mex"s and haul them back to the living quarters. Took a few knives and guns off of them- I still have one of them...38 cal pistol.

It looks like Sennica is running the Montgomery plant. I?m not sure I?ve ever been past there.

Go past the Glencoe plant often enough.

Of course Del Monte is the big deal by me, employs half of Sleepy Eye for half the year.

In my small neighborhood we don?t see many cannning crops. We have these rolling hills, the tops can dry out with shallow gavel veins, and the bottoms are deep heavy clayish gumbo peat type stuff never dries out. Ph is 7 to 8 mostly which can be a drag on canning crops as well. The varability of soil does not lead to an even, smooth canning crop harvest. We do well with field corn, very well, and we do ok with a defensive soybean. Frost is the great equalizer for those crops and we can go harvest. With canning crops, you would need to harvest by hand like a farmers market, and pick the few 100 square feet that got ripe today, repeat again in the next 48 hours....

We tiled a 41 acre field of mine a few years ago, it had so much short crop on the hilltops and so much drownout on the bottoms. I looked at google overhead maps, and counted 14 lighter hilltops, with seams of heavy wet stuff in between. Again, on only 41 acres.

It?s great ground mostly, but it?s kimda special getting a decent crop out of this stuff. Perhaps every 5 years or so someone tries some sweet corn or peas in a field, then the canning co rembers why they don?t come here......

Paul

I use a Tropicana bottle in my deer blind, so I don't have to get out and possibly scare off any deer.

(quoted from post at 09:10:36 10/22/18) The canopy on bed was to keep the thatch off the bed.

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Do you use an umbrella on the bed in case the can-o-pee spills then?

Rick

Proper aim is important also.

Dr told you not to lift anything heavy ,so you sit when you go.

(quoted from post at 12:42:38 10/22/18) Dr told you not to lift anything heavy ,so you sit when you go.

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Kids told me to get rid of the cast iron toilet seat........

Rick

isn't Le Seuer where the pee cans get emptied?