Posted on 06/08/2012 11:14:45 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
What does it take to produce a can of peaches? Most of us don’t know the answer to this question, but there really isn’t any problem in this. The problem for all of us is that the government bureaucrats that tell us where when and how to sell things like a can of peaches don’t know the first thing about what goes in to one.
Has anyone ever plotted how many jobs are in a can of peaches? The problem with bureaucracy and currency manipulators is they never understand the infinite range of human skills, talents, equipment, experience, energy and infrastructure it takes to produce a simple can of peaches, much less the myriad far more complicated products we take for granted every day. You want jobs? Here’s diversity of skills and employment! What’s in a can of peaches? : Peaches, can, lid and label; plus the carton to put them in so they can reach the store safely.
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I love peaches! My first experience with a union was when I was working in a peach cannery. We got 30 days of work from the last day of July until the first week of September. The union collected dues for 3 months.
I have some idea what goes into a can of peaches from ten seasons in that cannery. Start in December with pruning the trees then irrigate and fertilize until July or August. They have to be picked by hand from ladders. They get trucked to cold storage until there are enough to start canning.
They go through a lye bath to get the fuzz off then pitters to get the stone out. They are heavily sorted by size and quality then canned in corn syrup. The best peaches go in the halves with the brand name. The worst that are good enough to put in a can go in the great big institutional can.
Then they go through a cooker for 5 hours. The brand name peaches get labels the rest sit without labels until they are sold as store brands. They can sit in a warehouse well into the next season.
The peaches are brought in by truck. The cans come in by truck. The syrup comes in a rail tank car. There is a lot of water used. The peaches in cans leave by truck and train. Lots of work there.
Or as one child said, What are you doing, Grandpa?
“I am digging potatoes from my garden!”
Oh grandpa, you are so silly! You don’t get potatoes from the ground, you get them from the store!
Then there is the girl who refused to believe an egg, which she loved, came out of a chicken’s a-s-sk me no questions.
Great!
The aviation version is here and quite funny, at least to pilots and aviation mechanics:
http://www.rst-engr.com/rst/articles/tsodpencil.pdf
Note:”TSO” in the article means “Technical Standard Orders”
“A TSO is a written specification published by the Federal Aviation Administration as a minimum performance standard for specified materials, parts, and appliances used on civil aircraft. It may specify input and output parameters, operating parameters, and other minimum specifications that apply to an article.
The FAA publishes TSOs to set uniform, minimum standards for articles installed an used in aircraft. When authorized to manufacture a material, part, or appliances to a TSO standard, this is referred to as TSO authorization.”
“Seeing this made me immediately think of I, Pencil, by Leonard E. Read. If you've never read it, I recommend you check it out...and SHARE IT WITH YOUR KIDS.”That’s the first thing I thought of when I read this. Great link everyone should read.
Well it comes out of a chickens’ “bottom” but not from the anus; although from what I have heard there seems to be a bit of confusion among the current generation about which is which.
My grandpa once told me a story about when he worked in a peach canning factory. He said he got caught with his hand in the peach slicer... (wait for it)...
...and they fired her too.
I was probably 40 years old when I learned that a cow doesn’t give milk until it has a bambino. Then they milk the hell out of her.
Well it comes out of a chickens’ “bottom” but not from the anus; although from what I have heard there seems to be a bit of confusion among the current generation about which is which.
It's a one size fits all orifice called a cloacae. All amphibians, lizards, birds and monotremes have 'em. It handles feces, urine and eggs.
I, for one, welcome our new Orifice Overlords /.
All depends on whether that can of peaches you are eating came from CHINA!!!!!
Check your labels, most canned fruit is from CHINA!!!!
I will not eat that crap.
Excuse me?
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Washington DC is where people make a career out of telling other people how to do things they’ve never done themselves.
Millions of peaches. Peaches for me!
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