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Hard-boiled, Sweethe

This is the oddest business-expansion story I've seen in a while:

BOONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana company that cooks hard-boiled eggs for restaurants, hospitals, universities and food manufacturers says its proposed $4 million expansion would allow it to become the world's top hard-boiled egg producer, turning out more than 1 million of the eggs a day.

Prime Foods Inc. of Boonville expects the expansion to start this fall and be completed by February. The expansion will add 20,000 square feet to the current 60,000-square-foot Boonville plant about 15 miles east of Evansville.

It's always inspiring to read about the entrepreneurial zeal that results in finding a niche market and filling it, especially when the result is more Hoosier jobs. But, seriously? A company can thrive and fill an 80,000-square-foot plant by boiling eggs for institutions just too darn busy to take on that complicated and time-consuming task? Wonder how much that adds to our food bills.

And there is this tidbit at the end:

The company says it is busiest during "salad season," which runs from April until September.

There is a "salad season"? Who knew?

Comments

judy morris
Mon, 06/20/2011 - 1:09pm

hey, I knew someone who worked at a salad bar factory when she was in college...they made stuff for salad bars : who knew there were places like that......

littlejohn
Mon, 06/20/2011 - 1:44pm

Clearly you've never watched my wife attempt to cook.

Leo Morris
Mon, 06/20/2011 - 3:00pm

If she's one of those truly terrible cooks who "can't boil water," she should definitely stock up on the hard-boiled eggs, don't you think?

William Larsen
Mon, 06/20/2011 - 8:35pm

The VA in Fort Wayne has a truck travel from Marion three times a day to bring Breakfast, lunch and dinner for each in patient. This is a two hour trip round trip, plus gas, truck, insurance and maintenance. In simple terms, this is a full time job just driving the truck. When it gets to the VA in Fort Wayne, it has to be reheated.

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