Female worker bottling ketchup at the original Heinz factory in Pittsburgh, PA, c.1897

[packman]

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Had to share it because it was my homeground stomping area and I went on one a factory tour of the Heinz factory back in the late 50's and can still remember the wonderful aromas of the factory. And at the end of the tour we were given a little plastic pickle pin which I regret losing over the years. Good stuff.


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[malthaussen]

1. Now they don't even make pickles anymore.

So much for 57 varieties.

-- Mal

[dr.strangelove]

2. Don't they still make pickles

I swear I had some at the BBQ I was at on the 4th of July. I don;t really look closely at the jar, but I think the pickles I put on my burger came from a Heinz jar. I could be wrong.

anyway, I loved the Heinz tour. I remember the little pickles. They were still giving them out in the early 80s, but I've not been there in 30+ years.

The 57 varieties was never accurate even when it was introduced. They had over 60 products at the time of the slogan, but they felt over 57 sounded better. at least I recall that from the tour.

[azurnoir]

3. yes they do you can get them on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Heinz-Pickle-Genuine-Dill-Pack/dp/B001SAOE5I

[cwydro]

4. I loved when MAD MEN was talking about the Heinz account.

I have to admit, I do love Heinz.

[CrawlingChaos]

5. Hey, I've been there

I was born and raised in California but my parents were from Pittsburgh and we visited a couple times when I was a kid. They were from the Troy Hill neighborhood - do you know it? As I recall it was right on the river, very close to the Heinz factory.

As much as my parents hated Pittsburgh and couldn't wait to get out, I loved it. I'm very big on sense of place... by which I mean when a place itself seems to have a pulse of it's own and a palpable sense of it's history. The kind of thing that often gets destroyed by gentrification. Anyway, when I was there, Pittsburgh had it in spades. I would love to visit again as an adult but I wonder if I would recognize it.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. I love Pittsburgh

I went there twice, once in 2000 and the other in 2001 for the last year of the Pirates at Three Rivers and the first at PNC. Great city. Loved taking pictures of it from the top of the Dusquesne Incline.

[blue neen]

6. ...and now it is Kraft Heinz...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/06/investing/kraft-heinz-warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway/

[Brother Buzz]

7. I remember the Heinz pickle pins from the Seattle World’s Fair

I must still have dozen of them....somewhere.

[Special Prosciuto]

10. I still have one from the 1964 NY World's Fair.

Don't ask me why. I can't explain it.

[Brother Buzz]

11. Ah, that may explains that one pickle that was always a diferent shade of green

I went to the NY World's Fair only one day, but I practically camped at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, visiting it twice a day for a week.

[Tatiana La Belle]

9. A reminder that women in the workplace go back a long way

Working class women always worked outside the home. Often, these were immigrant women who were fighting not only sexism by discrimination as well.