Baked lamb: Fire at meatpacking plant

By adamg - 5/31/08 - 12:30 pm

Fire Tears Through Boston Lamb & Veal Plant in New Market Square.

Lobster, lamb, what's next?

fire

Comments

Nah, not in Boston

By bobmetcalf - 5/31/08 - 2:12 pm

The turkeys all run wild. It would take
a full-out forest fire to do to them what
happened to all that lobster and lamb.

Or spontaneous

By Miss M (not verified) - 5/31/08 - 2:20 pm

Or spontaneous combustion.

Flaming turkey bombs all over the city!

Enough of these savory fires; let's have some sweet fires. I nominate either the NECCO factory in Revere, or the Marshmellow Fluff factory in Lynn. The smell of all the burning sugar will just be the worst.

You had to bring something like that up

By adamg - 5/31/08 - 6:51 pm

I used to love the smell of bread near the Wonder Bread plant in Natick. Now, all you get, if you sniff really hard, is the smell of pretension from the Natick Collection of Stuff You're Too Cheap to Buy, You Damn New England Cheap Bastard You.

I used to love the smell of

By anon (not verified) - 5/31/08 - 7:58 pm

I used to love the smell of ~~bread~~ imitation bread substitute near the Wonder Bread plant in Natick.

There, fixed that for you.

Piantidosi Factory Store

By SwirlyGrrl - 5/31/08 - 11:28 pm

Commercial St., Malden, near Malden Center. Big store, open lots of hours, with bread whizzing by on overhead conveyors and everything. You could go to heaven on the scent of the bread everywhere.

We already did fried ice cream

By SwirlyGrrl - 5/31/08 - 11:54 pm

Anybody else remember? The HP Hood Ice Cream warehouse in Milton burned down in 1999 and sent melted icecream pouring into a nearby waterway.

Did those darn vegetarians do it?

By DE (not verified) - 6/1/08 - 12:08 am

First lobster and then lamb. Almost too coincidental. Other meat product factories better put on some more security folks. (I wish there was some way to let people know you're being sarcastic on computers.)

try "snark tags"

By SwirlyGrrl - 6/1/08 - 12:13 am

Just don't use the pointy brackets ... such as

[snark] I bet that they didn't know that PETA did their HVAC work at the meat warehouse and the Hook building[/snark]