Ever wonder how mayonnaise packets are packaged?
Here’s how it’s done!
At the Philadelphia Mayonnaise headquarters and plant, black birds are trained to hand pick small foil sleeves, which they position carefully in white sand.
The lead blackbird then pushes all the air out of the foil sleeve by moving it’s claws inch by inch down the sleeve.
At that point one end of the sleeve is open and ready to be filled with Mayonnaise.
At that point one end of the sleeve is open and ready to be filled with Mayonnaise.
Then the lead black bird lets it’s assistant know that it’s time to go and get the mayonnaise.
However…sometimes the young apprentices, also called assistant black birds, bungle their end of the job and the foil sleeve gets flattened and full of sand before any mayonnaise gets inserted.
When this happens, the lead black bird often gets very angry and harsh words are spoken.
The company's goal is to send out over 500,000 packets of Mayonnaise a day based on orders!
Unfortunately, the trained black bird system takes a long time and on days like this (as shown above) only 100 packets get done in a day.
The black birds are part of a union and can't be fired.
Unfortunately, the trained black bird system takes a long time and on days like this (as shown above) only 100 packets get done in a day.
The black birds are part of a union and can't be fired.
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