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Slim Jim was one of the earliest sponsors of the ASA Pro Tour (the aggressive inline skating tour) from 1997 to 2000. [18] The ASA Pro Tour was a qualifier for ESPN's X Games . In 2005, Slim Jim advertising featured the Fairy Snapmother, described in a Conagra press release as "a character resembling a tattooed rocker with wings – and a ...
Slim Jim snacks originated in Philadelphia. [4] Its manufacturer Cherry-Levis Food Company was sold to General Mills in 1967 for about $20 million [ 4 ] and renamed Slim Jim, Inc. [ 5 ] In 1970, General Mills purchased Jesse Jones Sausage Co. in Garner, North Carolina , and formed GoodMark Foods, Inc. to make Slim Jims there. [ 5 ]
In the 1940s, he and his brother-in-law/partner, Joseph Cherry, hired a meatpacker to develop a handheld dried meat stick. [1] The snack was originally named Penn Rose [4] (presumably after Pennsylvania and Rose, his wife [1]). Although each meat stick was sold individually, a vendor stored the sticks as a bunch and immersed in a large jar of ...
Slim Jim (snack food), a brand of beef snack made by Conagra Brands; Slim Jim (antenna), a type of dipole radio antenna; Slim jim (lock pick), a tool for bypassing car locks; nickname for the narrow-body version of the British Rail Class 33 locomotive; nickname of the GM Roto Hydramatic transmission; a sandwich on the menu of Big Boy Restaurants
Recipe Rehab is an American cooking competition television program that originally debuted as a short-form web series on YouTube on April 2, 2012, and subsequently became a half-hour television series on October 6, 2012 as part of the ABC station-primarily syndicated Litton's Weekend Adventure block. [1]
Alonzo Theodore Adams II (March 15, 1925 [1] – November 28, 2020) was an American food scientist who was the inventor and creator of the modern day snack brand Slim Jim.He received his undergrad degree from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, and his Master's degree from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
This article seems to mention every wrestler that ever advertised for slim jim yet fails to describe it as anything more than a snack food that contains mechanicaly separated chicken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Weetoddid ( talk • contribs ) 18:54, 9 May 2009 (UTC) [ reply ]
General Mills acquired the facility in 1968 and soon thereafter began producing Slim Jims there. The plant came under the control of ConAgra Foods in 1998. By June 2009, the 450,000 square feet (42,000 m 2) factory was the only one in the world which produced Slim Jims and employed 900 people, [1] [2] making it the largest employer in the town ...