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New Jersey

TreasonousBastard

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2. The "cookie factory" in Elizabeth started the exodus...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Jul 18, 2021, 01:34 AM

Jul 2021

Burry's Bakery, maker of cookies and biscuits, and Girl Scout Cookies for years shut down. The place was a quarter mile long and was a Wonder of the World candidate. Started out as a Duesenberg autofactory, and made aircraft engines during WWII.

Smelled great when it was baking, too. I lived a couple of blocks from the place for a few years. It burned down, or as down as could be for such a big thing, in 2019. That didn't smell so good.

The Nabisco plant smelled pretty good, too, and popped up almost in front of you as you headed north on 208. That sign will be missed.

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Nabisco plant to close today after 63 years in N.J. town [View all] TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP

I would like to see that Sinistrous Jul 2021 #1

The "cookie factory" in Elizabeth started the exodus... TreasonousBastard Jul 2021 #2

Growing up in CT I lived near a Pepperidge Farms baking facility. Smelled so good. ZonkerHarris Jul 2021 #3

I work in food recycling. Nabisco, Burry's were are customers. Arnold's, Thomas's are still are. 3Hotdogs Jul 2021 #4

Where are they moving production? Offshore? wackadoo wabbit Jul 2021 #5