# My home town makes.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293 "2001-07-12T23:30:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/1 "2001-07-12T23:30:25Z")
Old El Paso products (seeing as it’s El Paso, a bit apropo…but didn’t some one say it isn’t made there any more?) Tony Llama boots. what does your hometown produce? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/2 "2001-07-12T23:34:22Z")
Coca-Cola Airplane delays Home Depot stores Traffic messes Yankee carpetbaggers 😛 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/3 "2001-07-12T23:34:26Z")
St. Cloud, MN (and the area immediately surrounding it), where I live now, is one of the world’s largest producers of both granite and eyeglass lenses. My home town produces a lot of … um. DUIs? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/4 "2001-07-12T23:40:48Z")
The finest table grapes in the world!!! SunView tables grapes, grown in the San Jouquuin Valley, in Central California. Flames are being picked now, later this summer we’ll have Thompson’s and then my favorites, Sunsets—a yellow/purple round fruit with an undertone of pears. Crisp and flavorful with a mild skin and they’re just SO pretty. And, of course, seedless. My daddy has supervised this area’s crop from Richgrove to Wasco from Bakersfield to Orange Cove for the past 45 years! ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/5 "2001-07-12T23:42:26Z")
Cell phones, golf clubs, and oil tankers (Qualcomm, Calloway, and Nasco, respectively), among many other things. I think the original business model for membership warehouse stores (Costco, Sam’s Club) was developed here, too, by Sol Price of Price Club fame. I believe Jack-in-the-Box also got it’s start here. (Here is San Diego, by the way.) ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/6 "2001-07-12T23:45:43Z")
My home town produces a lot of over-educated emigres to other states. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/7 "2001-07-12T23:45:43Z")
Politics. ---
**Author:** ![frock75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@frock75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frock75)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/8 "2001-07-12T23:46:43Z")
Philadelphia Creamcheese, Tasty Kakes, Amoroso’s bread, parts for nuclear missiles, murder, litter, urban blight, little metal Liberty Bell pencil sharpeners, money(Philly Mint). I would say cheesesteaks, but we’re the only city stupid enough to eat such a mass of grease and dead flesh(questionable wich type of flesh is used some times). Cheap amatuer porn, any number of pharmacueticals(sp?), crystal meth, Pat Croce(shudder), DEAD MILKMEN(yeah!!!) ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/9 "2001-07-12T23:47:34Z")
Ooo, ooo, I have a good one here. M&M’s. And Skittles. And various other Mars products. Check the small writing on any package… ---
**Author:** ![Grok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Grok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grok)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/10 "2001-07-13T00:12:57Z")
We produce… Well… Produce. Lots of farms, you see. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/11 "2001-07-13T00:15:02Z")
My home town makes tourists very happy. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/12 "2001-07-13T00:20:37Z")
We produce smoke meat and bagels, as well as computer games, telcom equipment and pharmaceutical products. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/13 "2001-07-13T00:33:55Z")
No sense whatsoever, when you think about it. But somehow it all seems to work. ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/14 "2001-07-13T01:05:34Z")
My current town (where I live now): Krusteaz pancakes and Oberto jerky. My home town (where I grew up): Hmmm…they used to make Kaiser aluminum but I don’t know whether they still are or not…it’s been more profitable just to sell the electricity. (But wait till we run out of pop cans!) ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/15 "2001-07-13T01:07:31Z")
Ah was born and raised in the south. Well Southern California is in the south isn’t it? Actually you can’t get much further south without speaking Mexican. That hot hell hole makes salads. Grows quite a few of those veggies you eat in the winter. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/16 "2001-07-13T01:14:56Z")
1. Wheat 2. Teen pregnancies. 3. Teen marriages. 4. Early divorces. 5. Multiple marriages. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/17 "2001-07-13T01:15:32Z")
Chickens, baby. Chickens and nylon. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/18 "2001-07-13T01:28:47Z")
Wheat…millions and millions of bushels of wheat… ---
**Author:** ![Tokiwoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@Tokiwoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokiwoki)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/19 "2001-07-13T01:31:21Z")
Houston, TX: a lot of stinky air. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/20 "2001-07-13T01:59:40Z")
Humble, Texas Humble Oil, which became part of Exxon, which became part of ExxonMobil. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293.md?page=2)