My mother has passed on to the great pork pie factory in the sky and to be honest I didn’t know my niece worked there until I read it on Facebook, well I did know but forgot, I think my mother got her a summer job there.rjb wrote: ↑11 Nov 2021, 5:10pmDo they remember me! Or my brother in law now, John Putt.Vetus Ossa wrote: ↑11 Nov 2021, 3:02pmMy mother and niece worked there at about that timerjb wrote: ↑11 Nov 2021, 2:15pm My first job at 16 (1968) was a school summer holiday job at the local Bowyer's pie factory in Plymouth. Every Friday morning I had a 6.00 am start and my job was to transfer several hundred eggs which had just been delivered into a wire basket which was then dunked into a vat of boiling water for 4 minutes. The boiling water was drained off and refilled with cold. I then had to shell all the eggs into a large steel tub. The tedious part was transferring the eggs by hand into the basket without breaking any. Took me about 4 hours in total.
The eggs were destined for Gala Pies. How did they stop the eggs blackening you ask? They bleached them with a phial of Hydrogen Peroxide added to the tub. The Foreman supervising me would take the empty phial home to his wife who washed her hair in the rinsed out container. She was Platinum Blonde. nothing wasted, even the eggs shells went back to the hens for recycling.
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I know Derek and Colin Putt, don’t know if they are related.