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Greenberg Smoked Turkey, Inc. in Tyler, Texas, will halt all of its smoked turkey production for the rest of 2020 after a fire and at least two explosions destroyed part of the facility on Nov. 6.
The company sells about 200,000 smoked turkeys every holiday season. The Greenberg family has grown the 82-year-old smoked-bird business into a holiday obsession, The Dallas Morning News wrote in 1998. The famous East Texas turkey landed on Oprah Winfreys Favorite Things list in 2003.
Owner Sam Greenberg, the grandson of the founder by the same name, says a mechanical failure started a fire in one of the company facilities on Nov. 6. A freezer holding 87,000 turkeys exploded and burned the boxes and bags nearby, which are used to ship hundreds of thousands of turkeys during the companys busiest season.
No one was hurt. A team of 24 firefighters fought the blaze and its aftermath for nearly two days, says Paul Findley, Tyler fire marshal and public information officer.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2020/11/09/after-87000-turkeys-exploded-in-fire-greenberg-shuts-down-for-holiday-season/
Does anybody want their turkey well done?
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TygrBright
(20,866 posts)TexasTowelie
(113,880 posts)underpants
(184,171 posts)thinking - thats horrible of you to think that. Glad Im not the only one.
Hey the turkeys were already dead. Smoked. And then BLAMMO!
I wonder if the fire fighters got some remnants
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)and how the hell does a freezer explode? weird
CincyDem
(6,641 posts)I know, it's a little early but this story demands it !
elleng
(133,459 posts)briefly thought of doing it again this year but received e.mail from them this morning.
TexasTowelie
(113,880 posts)Gobble, gobble.
tanyev
(43,240 posts)Hmm.
TexasTowelie
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Bayard
(23,001 posts)I thought this was going to be a story about live turkeys exploding.
underpants
(184,171 posts)Its the fire department or a helicopter Id guess but I really thought for a second.....🚀
BrightKnight
(3,586 posts)kurtcagle
(1,832 posts)nt
Paladin
(28,510 posts)...but I think Greenberg turkeys are way too damn smoky. And I say that as somebody who's been enjoying Texas barbeque my entire long adult life. Oprah and I will have to respectfully disagree on this one.