The Imperial Sugar refinery in Texas had a building that was literally just piles of sugar. Depending on how recently they had received a shipment, it was either filled to the gills or almost empty.
There was also an incident in the 1990s when one of the doors collapsed, spilling sugar into the parking lot.
People familiar with agriculture won’t find this odd at all, soybeans and corn are stored in silos and grain bins and moved to semis and train cars and then buildings like this. I’m honestly not sure how else people think this is done… it doesn’t grow in packet form on the sugarcane plant.
I mean you’d expect it to be stored in silos when it’s delivered I guess. For products made I would have assumed it would’ve stored in large tanks or more silos.
The Kellogg factory near me has delivery’s pumped into silos which connect to the factory.
You sound a little insulting with your framing. Like I’m sure there are things you have no fucking clue how it works, but I wouldn’t judge you for it.
Without digging deeper to find out what this salt was purposed for, they also make salt for non food products, and likely non human ingestion as well (animal salt licks and such.)
You mean you don’t insult the intelligence of people who don’t immediately grasp the reality of a process when confronted with incongruous information they’d attained by being removed from the forces/systems that dictate that process?
I guess it’s more of a case that you know stuff comes out of the dirt at one end and is stored in piles, and is clean at the other with sanitary packaging. The shock might just be that the later half happens later than you might expect.
The Imperial Sugar refinery in Texas had a building that was literally just piles of sugar. Depending on how recently they had received a shipment, it was either filled to the gills or almost empty.
There was also an incident in the 1990s when one of the doors collapsed, spilling sugar into the parking lot.
In America, first you get the sugar. Then you get the power. Then you get the Women.
That’s a pretty esoteric Simpsons reference, but I like it.
That reminds me of the Boston Molasses Disaster
They should have called it the Boston Molassacre.
but that could also be a massacre perpetrated by a bunch of Mole asses
which is also funny to think about but in different ways
What a way to go.
Thanks for sharing.
People familiar with agriculture won’t find this odd at all, soybeans and corn are stored in silos and grain bins and moved to semis and train cars and then buildings like this. I’m honestly not sure how else people think this is done… it doesn’t grow in packet form on the sugarcane plant.
I mean you’d expect it to be stored in silos when it’s delivered I guess. For products made I would have assumed it would’ve stored in large tanks or more silos.
The Kellogg factory near me has delivery’s pumped into silos which connect to the factory.
You sound a little insulting with your framing. Like I’m sure there are things you have no fucking clue how it works, but I wouldn’t judge you for it.
Without digging deeper to find out what this salt was purposed for, they also make salt for non food products, and likely non human ingestion as well (animal salt licks and such.)
That’s a good point.
You mean you don’t insult the intelligence of people who don’t immediately grasp the reality of a process when confronted with incongruous information they’d attained by being removed from the forces/systems that dictate that process?
Lame-o
I guess it’s more of a case that you know stuff comes out of the dirt at one end and is stored in piles, and is clean at the other with sanitary packaging. The shock might just be that the later half happens later than you might expect.
They also make salt products for de-icing roads/sidewalks, so this sale may not have been destined for food.
I completely forgot that was a thing, I live in Australia and we don’t really do that here