We went on a tour~
The tour started off with a video in the theater about the history of Herr's.
~The Herr Foods began in 1946 when 21-year-old James Stauffer Herr bought a small potato chip company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for $1,750. The company grew gradually and soon became a flourishing business and had to keep continually moving to keep up with the demands.
~In 1946 James married Mim.
~Then in September of 1951 Herr's experienced a major disaster! Late one afternoon, on September 5th, a fire broke out in the plant. Although the equipment had been shut down for the day, cooking oil apparently had dropped onto a hot fire brick and burst into flames.
~1952: With help from family, friends and the bank, the Herr's bought 37 acres and built a new 4500 square foot plant. They were back in business!
~In 1958, after careful consideration, Herr's began adding seasoning to the potato chips. The barbecue chip was the first flavored chip the company tried and it's still in production today.~
~ To keep in step with consumer demand, Herr's began producing a number of new products: 1976 Cheese Curls, 1978 Popcorn, 1981 Pretzels, 1983 Corn products, such as corn and tortilla chips, 1984 Onion Rings.
After the video, we went along with our tour guide (Nate): and went into the Pretzel room.
It smelled so good!
After that we went into various chip and popcorn rooms. At the potato chips room we got to eat a chip that was just made. MMMMMMMM it was so delish!
At the end of the tour we all got a bag of regular potato chips~ Very yummy :)
We walked around the factory store. Then off to Olive Garden!
It was so very much fun~
Here are some pictures:
Herr's mascot, CHIPPER.
The front of the factory:
In the theater:
At the end, Bethany with Grandpa and Grandma.... (see Abigal in the back?)
We could not take pictures in the factory :0
Thats all for now~ :) Hope you enjoyed your cyber tour!
Zoe
~P.S. Check out my new playlist!
10 comments:
That is awesome!! Sounds like a lot of fun! lol Great pic of Abigail in the last pic! ;)
Btw, really like the new look of your playlist! And love the music! ♥
Looks like you had a lot of fun!
We liked it when we were there a few years ago! I agree that the fresh chips were good!!
I love the new music too!
OOOHhhh, I bet it was fun! Happy New Year!
Lol Zoe, I just saw the new pics of You, Abigail, Lincoln, and Bethany that you put up! HAHA! The one of Lincoln is funny!
Zoe, I love the song you put on your blog of the Collingsworth family singing "I Could Never Praise Him Enough"!!!!!
I agree with Joanna! And I really like the song Swingin and Marchin by Kim Collingsworth! lol =)
Sounds like you had a good time! I liked your pics! (And your new blog design - and PLEASE tell me how you got that new "playlist!" I think it's really cool!)
Love your new playlist! See you on Thursday! How many more days??? =D In case you forgot, it's 5!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!
~Kaitlyn
I don't know why factories ban the use of cameras. It's disappointing to me. This sounds like a interesting place to visit.
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