# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/21 "2001-07-13T02:27:12Z")
Horses and carcinogens. ---
**Author:** ![Peregrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Peregrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peregrine)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/22 "2001-07-13T03:08:30Z")
“…ultra-thin foils for use as bandpass filters in the extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, for both laboratory and space research” (Luxel Corporation) ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/23 "2001-07-13T03:10:04Z")
Furniture and the best damn BBQ in the world. Lexington style BBQ. ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/24 "2001-07-13T03:51:23Z")
Spalding sports equipment (Worldwide headquarters) Formerly, the world’s biggest kielbasa (really) The Wall Street Journal (regional office) A century ago, the first American-built car (Mr. Duryea–apocryphal) Yay Chicopee! ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/25 "2001-07-13T04:21:30Z")
My hometown makes Peter Paul candy bars. For some reason, I can’t remember which ones. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/26 "2001-07-13T04:37:06Z")
High Tech Everything. Last year’s little darling. San Jose that is. ---
**Author:** ![Mats\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Mats\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mats_K)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/27 "2001-07-13T04:48:54Z")
\*Foster’s \*Victoria Bitter \*Vegemite \*Australian Rules Football (does that count?) ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/28 "2001-07-13T05:40:38Z")
Lessee here… Paper and wood products. Overeducated people who **stay here** working any job they can find just so they won’t have to move. Um… Did I mention the wood products? [sub]Jeez, there’s gotta be more stuff than that![/sub] The occasional software product. I guess we’re more a town of services than products. It’s really nice here, though! ---
**Author:** ![virtee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dbc845/32.png) [@virtee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/virtee)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/29 "2001-07-13T05:46:12Z")
Yahoo!, IBM computers, Apple Computers, NASA flight research, Google, Intel and AMD processors and many, many other tech products. Oh, and Venture Capitalists, Road Rage and $1 million dollar 3 bedroom fixer-uppers. Once upon a time it made plumbs/prunes, apricots, almonds, figs, peaches and oranges - most of which ended up in Libby’s or Del Monte cans. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/30 "2001-07-13T05:53:51Z")
Um, steel, I think. Snooty doctors. Crabcakes. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/31 "2001-07-13T05:56:58Z")
Slinkies!! Mallo Cups jayjay ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b38774/32.png) [@Girl\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/32 "2001-07-13T06:07:39Z")
Petrochemicals. The industrial area is called “Chemical Valley” around here. I am surrounded by towns with names like Oil City, Oil Springs, and Petrolia. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/33 "2001-07-13T06:09:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > **Paper and wood products.** OOOH! Forgot about that … the paper mill in Sartell makes the glossy paper for Time and Newsweek. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/34 "2001-07-13T06:19:43Z")
Well, if I include the greater Chicago area I’d be here all day. Hell even if I kept it just to the city limits it’d be obnoxious. I’ll use where I grew up instead. Gordon’s Brand liquor was distilled right across the street from my Junior High School. There are several other things, but none you’d likely come across or notice in your day-to-day lives. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/35 "2001-07-13T06:22:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > > **Paper and wood products.** > > OOOH! Forgot about that … the paper mill in Sartell makes the glossy paper for Time and Newsweek. \*\* For us it’s nothing so glamorous, **chique**. Mostly paper and cardboard containers…the Smurfit-Stone (formerly Stone container) plant is just down the road…(yech) ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/36 "2001-07-13T06:34:09Z")
Now, now, **Lindy** , don’t take offense … wasn’t trying to brag. They also make the glossy inserts you throw away as soon as you order the Sunday paper 😉 Wish I could remember the name of the company that owns the plant, though - they own lots of them around the country … ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/37 "2001-07-13T06:41:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > **Now, now, Lindy, don’t take offense … wasn’t trying to brag.** Hey, no worries. Jest joshin’ with ya…🙂 I’d have to be some kind of _geek_ to get into a pissing contest over the quality of locally-made paper products. [sub]What?[/sub] Hey! Stop laughing! Don’t make me come over there! ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/38 "2001-07-13T06:52:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > I’d have to be some kind of _geek_ to get into a pissing contest over the quality of locally-made paper products. Or really, REALLY bored 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/39 "2001-07-13T06:56:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > > I’d have to be some kind of _geek_ to get into a pissing contest over the quality of locally-made paper products. > > Or really, REALLY bored 😉 \*\* Hey! Whaddaya want from me? It’s 1 o’clock in the morning and 81 degrees in this house? You think I can **sleep**? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293/40 "2001-07-13T07:17:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > **Hey! Whaddaya want from me? It’s 1 o’clock in the morning and 81 degrees in this house? You think I can sleep? 😉** Ya know, if I could flirt to save my life I could have fun with this 😉 _promises to not hijack this thread anymore_ As long as I’m here, though … anyone from Avon, OH? They make Duck Tape[sup]TM[/sup] there, ya know 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-home-town-makes/72293.md?page=3)