McClure’s Pickles wants to make the pickle a snack with its new Lil’ Pickle Snack Packs. Featuring personal pickles, “picked, pecked, packed and ready to party,” each 2.2oz. package provides an easy way for consumers to enjoy bite-size pickles with McClure’s flavors, including dill, sweet and spicy, and spicy. The Pickle Snack Packs will be […]
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Drake’s Organic Spirits Introduces Spiked Ice Adult Frozen Treats
Minneapolis-based Drake’s Organic Spirits has unveiled Drake’s Organic Spiked Ice freeze-and-eat alcoholic ice pops. Drake’s Organic Spirits distills all organic premium vodka, white rum, spiced rum and mixes. The adult organic treats feature 15 percent ABV and 80 calories each. Drake’s Organic Spiked Ice will be available in four flavors: mango rum punch, vodka lemonade, […]
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Schnuck Markets Plans To Close Two Missouri Stores
Schnuck Markets will close its 10634 St. Charles Rock Road location in St. Ann on May 5 and a store in Festus at 1275 North Truman Boulevard on June 30. Both stores are in Missouri. All of the approximately 130 employees at the two stores will be offered transfers to nearby Schnucks stores and retain […]
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Pic Select Fresh Baby Food Introduces Four New Flavors
Pic Select Fresh second-stage baby food has added four new flavors: pears, carrots, banana and mixed vegetables. Pic Select Fesh is part of Lincolnshire, Illinois-based Goode Foods Inc. Pic Select Fresh offers foods with no sugar added and no artificial colors or flavors and emphasizes products that are high in fiber, high in protein and […]
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Kraft Heinz Makes Twisted Ranch Restaurant Sauce Line
Fans of the St. Louis, Missouri, destination restaurant Twisted Ranch soon will be able to buy its ranch line in stores nationwide. Heinz Kraft is making Twisted Ranch sauces in five flavors: black pepper parmesan, cheesy smoked bacon, honey dipped wasabi, garlic smashed Buffalo and mango spiked habanero. Twisted Ranch sauces will be available in […]
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Drake’s Organic Spirits Donates To MN Animal Rescue
Drake’s Organic Spirits is helping animals in Long Lake, Minnesota, with a donation to the Long Lake Animal Rescue. Drake’s Organic Spirits produces premium organic vodka, white rum, spiced rum, Spiked Ice ice pops and organic mixes. Long Lake Animal Rescue is a nonprofit located on 40 acres. It provides a safe and loving environment […]
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Meijer To Stock Eastside Distilling’s Redneck Riviera Whiskey
Redneck Riviera Whiskey from Eastside Distilling will be sold in about 200 Meijer stores in the Midwest, including Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. Portland, Oregon-based Eastside Distilling, which makes Redneck Riviera Whiskey, announced its authorization agreement with Meijer on March 22. “We are very excited to be working with Meijer, one of the preeminent […]
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Family-Owned Roots Poultry Offers Much More Than Shredded Chicken
by Terrie Ellerbee/editor-Midwest Wayne Root was stringing phone lines for AT&T in northwest Ohio when the Great Depression hit, taking his job with it. To support his family, Root began buying produce and other foods from local farmers and taking them to market in the Cleveland area, where he had contacts. In Cleveland, he would […]