| Anyone for Chocolate? |
| Martin | I've found a forum all about chocolate.
It probably won't interest anyone on here though [}:)]
[url]http://www.seventypercent.com/forum/default.asp[/url] |
| William R | Possibly Lady G may be interested, Martin. She`ll come and get me one day for this, or she`ll send Linda D to do the job for her. I`ll watch out.Cheers, Bill. |
| LDunlop76 | Oh c'mon! I think most of us enjoy chocolate..... even me!
(shhhhhh![;)])
But it is very bad for your teeth! [}:)] |
| noel | Beech's Chocolate Factory in Flekky Rd, Preston's own chocky factory was bought out last year by an independant buyer who is reversing the dwindling fortunes of Beech's and trying to get franchises with some of the major supermarket stores. |
| Spitfire | Kath, It`s no supprise that Bensons gave away boxes of crisps to visitors. I used to go there on service visits and saw just have many dustbins they filled with crisps that had fallen off the conveyor belt during each shift. I hasten to add that this wastage was destroyed and not recycled! |
| LDunlop76 | Thanks for the full tale, Bill! That sounds like something from an Ealing comedy.... or a Norman Wisdom film..... I can just imagine him crying out, "Mr. Grimsdale, Mr. Grimsdale!" LOL!!![:o)] |
| Martin | Last year, I had a tour of the Nutricia factory in Wells. Some of you might remember it as Cow & Gate. It was an amazing place, a huge factory with very few workers in sight. Vegetables went into large pressure cookers at one end, while another section loaded thousands of bottles onto a conveyor. The whole process was then automated, with full bottles caming out at the other end, which were then automatically stacked onto pallets. |
| Spitfire | Noel, My uncle was site electrician at Beeches for many years. Always remember that there was never any pilfering by staff as they were allowed to eat as much chocolate as they wanted. He used to say that the majority of the workforce were sick of the sight of it! |
| noel | quote:
Originally posted by Spitfire
Noel, My uncle was site electrician at Beeches for many years. Always remember that there was never any pilfering by staff as they were allowed to eat as much chocolate as they wanted. He used to say that the majority of the workforce were sick of the sight of it!
Good to see them rescued spitfire. I believe the factory is quite old?? I can well understand getting sick of the taste if you work in it all day. Bit like working in a crumpet factory.[:)] |
| William R | Noel, Is there a cryptic message in your posting? I used to have a manager who came to us from a well known firm of Consultants, he had been on anassignment, (he called it ) to Terry`s at York, his brief was a C.P.I. exercise in the mix of centres and flavours in boxes of chocolates, in which he had to determine the economy of putting more of one flavour or fillng than another to give increased profit at the end of the day. All covered by the description on the box that the contents may be different than the pictures shown. He hated chocolates.(he said) because of it. Once went with the Chamber to visit a Lyons cake factory, now that WAS an eye opener. Methinks therein rest a good tale to be told. From over the Pennines, Cheerio William R.
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
Originally posted by William R
Once went with the Chamber to visit a Lyons cake factory, now that WAS an eye opener. Methinks therein rest a good tale to be told.
Aw, Bill! Don't leave us in suspense like that![:0] |
| William R | Well, Linda, it was like this, We went at a time agreed, when the cakes would be coming out of the oven onto the conveyor system for putting into boxes for sale. The whole thing from adding ingredients to packing is timed to the second, like when you have made the cake mix you can`t stop the process. So either side of the conveyor were the girls who put the cakes into the boxes. So you have a supply of boxes to hand and as the cakes come along a girl will grab one into the box and back on the conveyor to be stacked at the end. Good scheme if the boxes are there but no, they ran out of boxes, and the cakes made their journey right to the end into the skip. They couldn`t stop the process, neither could they box them. Just like a cartoon, girls trying to collect cakes in piles but getting them squashed. a new batch of girls appeared from the rest room, they were for a different type of cake, which was already on its way from baking, and they had their boxes ready for packing. The endless process went on, new girls packed new boxes, but old girls were abandoned carrying piles of cakes unboxed, which they took to one side and stacked on a table and went to rest room, to come back when the next batch of cake came out. If they had boxes. We asked what happened to the unboxed cakes, now why did our guide tap the side of his nose and wink, I wonder. I know where they went, but I ain`t saying. When it was in operation, the factory worked very odd shifts, all geared to the time the cakes were due out of the ovens, but the girls got lots of perks. There`s a lot more, but I`ll leave it there, for you to imagine like a comic film. From over the Pennines, Cheerio, Bill. |
| Kath smith | If I thought I could get away with out offending you I'd scan in a picture my friend sent me of what would happen if evolution worked- I will leave it to your imaginations which parts of the male and female anatomy become chocolate!!
Once went to Benson's crisp factory, now that was an eye opener, from potato to crisp packet in less than an hour, we saw the whole process and then got free boxes of crisps.
Also been to the Milk bottling plant in Bamber Bridge, that place is so clean there are so many regulations they have to follow and there was even a man who's job was to remove notes stuck in bottles and another who checks bottles for chips and cracks.
Put my faith back into the factory system. |