Cheap Hot Dogs

I was at a grocery store in Simcoe on Friday and saw a blowout sale on Maple Leaf Top Dogs. They were on sale for 99 cents. There was a whole display of them with a big blowout sign. I passed on the 99 cent weiners and it looked like everyone else was passing on them too. I know the meat recall is over but, I just felt odd about buying the "blowout" priced weiners.

I'm certainly not rich but for some reason I very seldom if ever purchase any Maple Leaf products. Just never have. So I would have also passed on the 99 cent hot dogs.

Didn't get any either but with the amount of cleaning the plant has gotten they are probably the safest hotdogs in the market place.

I was never a big fan of Maple Leaf to begin with. I can't think of the last time that I ever bought a Maple Leaf brand name meat product. I realize of course that they produce for other brand names and I could very well have bought something that was produced by them.

For weiners though, nothing but Schneiders.

Watchman wrote:

I was never a big fan of Maple Leaf to begin with. I can't think of the last time that I ever bought a Maple Leaf brand name meat product. I realize of course that they produce for other brand names and I could very well have bought something that was produced by them. For weiners though, nothing but Schneiders.

In fact, I find it amazing how little we know about the origin of the food we eat.
If you check the full list of the recalled Maple Leaf products you will find some 21 SCHNEIDER'S products on the list because they were actually produced by ML at their affected plant - no weiners though.

yes, folks - Schneiders IS Maple Leaf Foods

has been for quite awhile now

Some interesting facts!
"The company was originally known as Maple Leaf. It was founded in 1927 as a merger of several major Toronto meat packers and was immediately Canada's largest food processor, a title it would hold for the next sixty years.

Its main business was pork, and its massive operations processing hogs for export to the United Kingdom helped Toronto earn its nickname "Hogtown."

Moving into western Canada it became Canada's largest beef slaughterer.

It also moved into other markets producing well known brands such as Squirrel peanut butter and Black Diamond cheese. The company also developed a large bread division, best known for the Dempster's brand, which is Canada's best selling brand of bread.

During the 1980s the company began to suffer.

After being successfully revived, the company was purchased by Wallace McCain, formerly co-CEO of McCain Foods, who had been ousted by his brother and co-owner Harrison McCain, in 1995 along with the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

In 2003 the company purchased rival Schneider Foods. The company is also one of Canada's largest agribusinesses, owning poultry and hog farms across the country. The main slaughterhouse is located in Brandon, Manitoba."
This is quite a story!!

Inanimate Carbon Rod wrote:

yes, folks - Schneiders IS Maple Leaf Foods

has been for quite awhile now

Guess that is my new thing learned for the day

I had no idea.

99 cents ...wow!!! Where was that? I want to stock up for the family thanksgiving weiner roast!!!

They're at the superstore Jonas

I'll bet it was a huge reaction to the listeria outbreak...and at the end of the summer, the long weekend, etc. when people SHOULD have been eating a lot of hotdogs, people saw the Maple Leaf name and backed away! And they were left with too many weenies! But the wieners were never in the list of questionable products.

I prefer Shopsy's over Maple Leaf anyways.