Talk:Beech-Nut

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Questioning recall relevance[edit]

I question the relevance of a recall of <2000 pounds of product (2015). If there's a gross of jars in a case, and there are 4 oz in a jar, then 2000 pounds is ~56 cases - maybe 4 pallets, not even a truckload. (These are back of the envelope calculations, obviously). That's not even a blip on the radar as far as significance. Add to that the fact that it was determined (pity the poor guys who had to strain through all that goop) that it was a single jar, and I fail to see why this false alarm is significant.174.130.48.221 (talk) 14:44, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Apple juice scandal[edit]

I would like to see a fleshed out page or section about the 1987 apple juice scandal. It is not clear to me where I should put such a request. I looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles#Business_and_economics and it has a section for businesses, but it is not clear if that can be used to request more detail on a business (that should possibly have its own page). (I am building my own list of pages I would like to work on, but thought I would leverage whatever existing lists I should be.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcculley (talk • contribs) 20:03, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Name[edit]

So why is it called Beech-Nut? Maikel (talk) 23:51, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is basic information that any reader would expect to find in a supposedly encyclopedic article about this subject, and really should have been included in this article from the start. 204.11.189.94 (talk) 12:57, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I found this:

Company Origins in the 1890s

Beech-Nut was founded in 1890 by five residents of Canajoharie, New York: Raymond and Walter Lipe, John and David Zieley, and Bartlett Arkell. Company lore has it that the home-smoked hams of Raymond and Walter's father, Ephraim, were renowned in the small Mohawk Valley farming community for their unique nutty flavor. Ephraim, a wealthy miller, had no thought of marketing his curing process, but his two sons, and their friends the Zieley brothers, were looking to set up a business, and they managed to convince their father to lend them both the recipe and the $10,000 capital needed to get started. The elder Lipe, unsure of the business acumen of his sons, made one stipulation. The boys must bring in Bartlett Arkell, the 28-year-old son of a successful local businessman and already a budding entrepreneur himself with a partnership in a rug importing firm. Arkell agreed to join the new venture as president and suggested they call the company the Imperial Packing Co. after the Imperial Hotel where he had stayed on a visit to New York City.

Operating out of a rented room in a local store, the Imperial Packing Co. got off to a less than imperial start. By 1899, the Zieleys and Raymond Lipe had bailed out of the foundering firm, which owed the local bank some $60,000. Bartlett Arkell came to the company's rescue by selling his share of the rug business. In exchange for paying off the debt, Arkell took $60,000 worth of stock in the company that was reorganized with a capitalization of $150,000. On the advice of a friend, who said that "Imperial" was an undemocratic name for an American ham, Arkell renamed the firm Beech-Nut, evoking the beech trees that grew around Canajoharie as well as the smoky, nutty flavor of the company's hams.

Source: https://fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/beech-nut-nutrition-corporation-history/

204.11.189.94 (talk) 12:59, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Breakfast[edit]

Beech-Nut has been credited with popularizing the ham-and-eggs "hearty breakfast". Maikel (talk) 23:53, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]