Horses and carcinogens.
“…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)
Furniture and the best damn BBQ in the world. Lexington style BBQ.
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!
My hometown makes Peter Paul candy bars. For some reason, I can’t remember which ones.
High Tech Everything. Last year’s little darling.
San Jose that is.
*Foster’s
*Victoria Bitter
*Vegemite
*Australian Rules Football (does that count?)
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!
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.
Um, steel, I think.
Snooty doctors.
Crabcakes.
Slinkies!!
Mallo Cups
jayjay
Petrochemicals. The industrial area is called “Chemical Valley” around here. I am surrounded by towns with names like Oil City, Oil Springs, and Petrolia.
OOOH! Forgot about that … the paper mill in Sartell makes the glossy paper for Time and Newsweek.
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.
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)
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 …
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!
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?
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