No More Cookies From New Jersey's Iconic Nabisco Plant Which Is Closing

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According to the article "The company told NorthJersey.com that the Fair Lawn factory doesn't have the manufacturing capabilities that are up to speed with the times." Nabisco is also closing it's Atlanta factory and will keep it's east coast operations in Richmond, VA. Riding past Fair Lawn on Rte 208, there it was. I saw it when I went to the dealer to buy my new Camry in 1994. It was visible when we headed to Johnnie & Hanges hot dog spot (another N.J. icon) after it moved to Fair Lawn. Nabisco was a fixture, a landmark. You can tell by the photos that it would be hard to miss. I think everybody I knew, knew someone who worked or had previously worked at the plant. The factory employed 600 people who will now be out of work. Hopefully the job fairs the town is planning will help them find more work.
https://www.audacy.com/wcbs880/news/local/nabisco-factory-in-fair-lawn-will-bake-last-cookies-friday
 

Nabisco was also a landmark here in the town nearby where it was situated for decades since 1926... until it closed... and such a landmark that they didn't demolish the town building for years ...It had given employment for decades to the town and surrounding towns...and almost everyone had a family member who'd worked there at some time

It became a town Icon with the huge silos, and the smell of hot wheat wafting through the area... but now it's been demolished to make way for 1200 apartment building homes...
 

A few years ago I had to go gluten free. But before that my all time favorite crackers were these:


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Sadly, Nabisco stopped producing them despite howls of protests from their customers.
 
Technology will replace people in many of the industries that used to employee so many of the working class. Automation can build it with less cost, faster, and with increased production in a single facility. That's progress.
There are other industries that are begging for people and are offering high paying careers. HVAC, plumbing, construction, most anything in the medical field, geriatric care... the list is long. If we can get the infrastructure bill passed, thousands of jobs will open in the engineering/construction area. So many of the job opportunities of today... and tomorrow... are in the trades.
We're on our second or third generation of telling our kids if they don't get a college degree they will fail in life. So, they accumulate significant college debt and graduate unable to find a decent paying job. OTOH, people are coming out of one to two year trade schools and making good money.
 
Crown Pilot & Uneeda:

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note how both pilot name and biscuit symbol of little kid reflect ocean travel - that's because both were inspired by hard tack or sea biscuits



Hard Tack Sea Biscuits / recipes (gone-ta-pott.com)


Hard Tack or (better know as Sea Biscuits by sea goers)
was used during long sea voyages and eaten along side of stews & soups like Bone Soup.
... Wikipedia tells us that "Hard tack is a cracker/biscuit flat-bread also used during military campaigns before the introduction of canning as a primary food-source.




Since I cannot eat wheat crackers anymore, I am forced to use rice crackers. They don't taste anywheres as good or have the same texture as do the originals.
 
Patch said:
Technology will replace people in many of the industries that used to employee so many of the working class. Automation can build it with less cost, faster, and with increased production in a single facility. That's progress.
There are other industries that are begging for people and are offering high paying careers. HVAC, plumbing, construction, most anything in the medical field, geriatric care... the list is long. If we can get the infrastructure bill passed, thousands of jobs will open in the engineering/construction area. So many of the job opportunities of today... and tomorrow... are in the trades.
We're on our second or third generation of telling our kids if they don't get a college degree they will fail in life. So, they accumulate significant college debt and graduate unable to find a decent paying job. OTOH, people are coming out of one to two year trade schools and making good money.
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I hear you Patch. My oldest grandson was on the high honor roll all through his college days. He consistently made the Deans List, President's List and was inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society and the National Honor Society. He and his friends/college colleagues presented business plans at a couple of major companies in N.Y. He couldn't find a job for almost two years after which he found work, but it is below his capacity that doesn't pay that well. He still has to pay back those student loans though.

@OldiebutGoodie I do remember seeing the Uneeda Biscuits. Can't remember if I ever had any.
 
My favorite cookies are maple from Canada. I buy them in the CVS drug store. Yummy.
 

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