Man, that Ted Nugent will kill anything won’t he?
I suspect that’s the case, yes.
Sure, I can understand why it would piss you off. I just don’t see why anyone should have any sympathy for you when you do the same thing to other people. If making sweeping, insulting generalizations about the South makes someone an asshole, surely making sweeping, insulting generalizations about the North also makes someone an asshole? And if two parties in a dispute are both assholes, who cares which one of them is right?
I guess we’ll all just have to learn to deal with each other’s language choices. I don’t give a shit if anyone has sympathy for me. I neither need it nor desire it.
I’m commenting on White Lily.
In that vein, are you (or were you) a miller? Care to comment on the specifics of the business of milling?
And what makes you think the company was unaware that this would be a result of selling?
It just seems to me that, if it bugs you so much when people do it to you, you’d be more careful about doing it to other people yourself. But what do I know? I’m neither a Yankee or a Southerner. I’m from California, and we’re fortunate in that nobody ever makes unfavorable generalizations about us.
I used to run a mill. But it was this kind of mill. Not too useful for baking goods, unless you like them flavored with cutting oil and garnished with metal shavings.
Damn yankees is right!
Why do you imagine it matters?
I think I need a scorecard. Ohio is Yankee territory too? I thought it was us in the North East and not those in the Mid West that were Yankees.
I think you targeted the wrong people. You should be angry at those Buckeye Bastards* and not us innocent “Damn Yankees”.
Sorry to hear about your flour, I understand, but hey we’re innocent this time.
Jim
- I claim alliterative license for purposes of mild humor, I have no bone to pick with the Buckeyes.
I was only a Southerner for a few years, but I’ve very saddened by this news.
Ummm…because someone (or multiple someones) at White Lily decided to go ahead and sell. Odds are, they knew operations would be shut down and moved. So they are just as guilty as The Smuckers company, which is in Ohio, hardly part of the traditional “Yankee” territory.
Though I understand that exactly who is and is not a Yankee varies from where you are. Across the pond, every American is a Yankee/Yank, down south, it’s a large portion of the north. In most parts of the north, it’s just the northeast, and here in the northeast no-one is referred to as a Yankee except 25 members of a baseball club.
Oh, believe me. I’m pissed that they sold, but the ultimate responsibility for moving the mill does not reside with them. It resides with the Smuckers company. After all, they didn’t move the Martha White operations, so moving operations was not a given.
No, they are not “just as guilty,” and only a twisted interpretation of events would suggest otherwise.
Oh, and Ohio isn’t Yankee? Seriously? Here is a list of Ohio infantry units during the Civil War. There were cavalry, artillery, and other units as well. Ohio was solidly, completely Union.
It is more than 25. For instance Yogi, Reggie, Whitey, Mattingly, Guidry and Pauly will always be Yankees forever and the coaches and managers count.
By the way, two posts up, I mentioned the Ohio and Yankee definition bit. 
Last I checked, Ted Nugent and Tommy Shaw were all about a different kind of white powder.
Are you sure it wasn’t Firehouse or maybe Danger Danger that’s responsible?
I mean, Firehouse is big in Thailand, but that’s not the kind of thing that’s gonna last forever. And Danger Danger didn’t even have that many hit singles to keep the checks rolling in.
Maybe they just wanted to diversify some.
But Shaw is from Montgomery, Alabama…which has always been a little confusing to me, I admit.
A part of me feels like I ought to just stay out of this, but, there are people alive today who care which side of the Civil War a state was on? Seriously?
I mean, what if a Florida company bought White Lily and moved operations to Florida? Would that be ok because it wasn’t damn Yankees doing a disservice to the South?
I’m all for local pride, and love ragging on Maple Syrup from NY or Canada, but I would never be angry with the home state (or geographic region) of a company that bought a VT company and changed it. It’s stupid and doesn’t make sense.
Unileaver (sp?) bought Ben and Jerry’s a few years back and made a number of changes. Some folks were angry with Unileaver, some with Ben and Jerry’s, but no one in his or her right mind was angry with the Brits.
Well, that’s because no one needs a reason to be angry with the English – we’re already pissed off. Heck, I’m still smarting over the war of 1812.
Curse you, red coats!
They CHANGED THE PRODUCT which had been an extremely Southern thing, for a lot of reasons. 1) It has been located in downtown Knoxville for 125 years. Ben and Jerry’s? Not even close. 2) It was central to Southern baking for generations. 3) It was made to painstaking standards, using no bran, and all endosperm. It may not have been the healthiest choice, but goddamned if it didn’t make the finest biscuits possible. Those standards have been allowed to lapse. 4) It was a touchstone to our past, since red winter wheat was the only wheat available in the South for many years.
I’ve never used White Lily (being a Yankee myself - are Californians Yankees? I reckon so, though I’m partial to biscuits myself) but I understand the upset. Yet another casualty in the corporate homogenization of foodstuffs in this country.