Posted on 09/24/2013 2:05:20 PM PDT by Excellence
Magnus von Buddenbrock and Stefanie Giesselbach arrived in Chicago in 2006 full of hope. He was 30, she was 28, and they had both won their first overseas assignments at ALW Food Group, a family-owned food-trading company based in Hamburg. Von Buddenbrock had joined ALW—the initials stand for its founder, Alfred L. Wolff—four years earlier after earning a degree in marketing and international business, and he was expert in the buying and selling of gum arabic, a key ingredient in candy and soft drinks. Giesselbach had started at ALW as a 19-year-old apprentice. She worked hard, learned quickly, spoke five languages, and within three years had become the company’s first female product manager. Her specialty was honey. When the two colleagues began their new jobs in a small fourth-floor office a few blocks from Millennium Park in downtown Chicago, ALW’s business was growing, and all they saw was opportunity.
On March 24, 2008, von Buddenbrock came to the office around 8:30 a.m., as usual. He was expecting a quiet day: It was a holiday in Germany, and his bosses there had the day off. Giesselbach was on holiday, too; she had returned to Germany to visit her family and boyfriend. Sometime around 10 a.m., von Buddenbrock heard a commotion in the reception area and went to have a look. A half-dozen armed federal agents, all wearing bulletproof vests, had stormed in. “They made a good show, coming in with full force,” he recalls. “It was pretty scary.”
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I would recommend against giving it to babies in any event.
I also don’t let my children play in the road.
Either this, or they go back to raiding the Amish for selling milk again.
I love adulterated food products. We call most adulterations ‘processed food’.
Like mayonaisse. http://www.hoxsie.org/2013/03/make-your-own-ivanhoe-mayonnaise.html
They adulterate it with mustard, egg yolks, and all kind of stuff. Delicious!
Gosh, I agree, but some people think that tariffs are necessary for US products to compete.
I know a fellow who patented an air conditioner for bee hives, so the worker bees could all go foraging, and not have some staying at home cooling the hive by fanning air through the tunnels.
Didn’t make any money off it. He would have had to find and sue bee keepers who violated his patent, and that wasn’t a winning game.
It was real honey. The problem was the government didn’t get their ‘cut’ (tarrif).
“They hide opium in the combs.”
That may explain why it’s hard to get to work on time.
bee ping
I am now making my own. Thank you, bees!
bee kee ping (pun intended)
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