What a weird thread. Still, we can at least rest safe in the knowledge that the supply of first-rate fruitcake appears to be unaffected.
Presumably they took the vote on a Saturday, and the UT students were too drunk after another Vols loss to vote for remaining in the Union.
Couldn’t someone else start a flour factory? The people who know how to make it will be looking for work.
Well, admittedly the vote was taken in 1982 when they had all that World Fair money coming in and wanted to be their own country. 
Coke had to bring back the old formula, so you know you can raise enough of a stink to have the White Lily flour done the same way it was. I’ve seen a lot of products disappear a few months after they were bought out. The new owner drops all the different varieties and keeps the main flavor as a token for the brand loyal.
Just as long as they had some Vandy students to help them make those confusing pencil crosses on the ballot paper.
Hijack: I own one (1) piece of orange clothing. One (1). It’s a big baggy 3x T-shirt (I love super baggy T shirts in hot weather). When I lived in Georgia I drove up to Athens one Saturday to do research at the UGA library, completely forgetting (or not knowing) that
1- It was a football Saturday
2- It was the UGA/UTenn game
3- Orange is the UT color
4- Parking for the library is a parking deck that’s also used for the stadium thus I had to park about 2 miles away
That particular game was a big UGA victory. I ended up ducking into JUNKMAN’S DAUGHTER’S BROTHER (a head shop and kitsch store spun-off from JUNKMAN’S DAUGHTER in Atlanta) and buying a Sea Monkeys T-shirt in interest of my own safety and to stop the “No fruit sucks like the Big Orange!” catcalls (“I’m here to research (early 19th century pre-Marxist socialist) William Heighton and the Philadelphia Mechanics Union of Trade Associations” not really doing the trick in establishing my complete neutrality). Went to the library, it was literally me and some Asian students, and got my car out around midnight after trying to leave the city for about 3 hours.
Damn- I thought the Iron Bowl (Auburn/Bama) was bad, but UGA and UTenn are evidently both even more hardcore.
Just checking to make sure that we’ve made the necessary references to the unholy spawn of Night Ranger/Styx/The Amboy Dukes. Now that I see it’s been covered, by all means carry on.
Ha ha!
You know, I said it off the cuff, but why not a gourmet flour mill?
I was thinking about this last night. I sincerely wish I had the capital to try this since it would be a fabulous business opportunity, and an excellent way to save a little bit of culture. I hope somebody steps up and buys it, then hires all the local experts to make the flour PRECISELY as it has been made there for 125 years.
There are several grist mills still in operation in north Georgia around Helen (Nora Mill being the only one I can think of offhand- well, Lee & Gordon’s Mill in Chickamauga for its Civil War relevance, but I don’t know how active it is). Nora Mill makes some excellent hominy and other items (including a corn-meal oatmeal like food that’s particularly good) but I don’t know if they grind their own flour or just repackage others.
My sister’s looking for an investment opportunity and loves north Georgia. I might run this by her.
Zing! +1.
As a Northerner living in the South – Yankee? You tell me: I’m from Montana – I’ve gotten used to making sympathetic mouth noises when people complain about the death or relocation or both of another Southern institution I don’t give a shit about. Insincere mouth noises, but polite insincerity is highly valued here in Dixie, and when in Rome . . . .
Well nice of ya to drop in and thread shit there. Won’t you have some sweet tea and a chaw before ya leave very shortly? (And it’s true about people in Rome -they get all uppity about being the start of the Coosa, like they had anything to do with it.)
Didn’t Smuckers decide a while back that the raspberry jam-eating experience would be improved somewhat by the removal of raspberry seeds from the product?
What other sins can be laid at their doorstep? Maybe we can gather a coalition for a headquarters-storming party.
High-handed lack of respect for the culture of the place you’re currently living? A sullen, superior attitude toward the “backward locals”? Yep, you’re a Yankee. I’ll bypass the Southern tendency toward circumlocution for a second and politely invite you to go the fuck away, if you don’t like it here.
You seriously don’t understand why the dissolution of something that has been a small, but important touchstone to family traditions and history, regional history, and a small testament to extremely high-quality food, is troublesome?
Or are you just being a dick?
Well aren’t you sweet?
Damn, I wish I could remember that jingle. It was something like
When you need a shine, pick the one you know,
‘Buff up wif Li’l Darkie, an’ watch dem boots glow!’
Then there was a “sand dance” bridge, as I recall. Anyway, yet another tragic and senseless loss.
Relax. I think kaylasdad99 was jovially commiserating, as he also does not like certain decisions of Smuckers; namely, those leading to the removal of raspberry seeds from their raspberry jam. Nothing he’s said should lead you to draw the conclusions you seem to be drawing.