Monday, January 25, 2010
We live right up Washington Avenue from the Burnham & Morrill plant, makers of fine B&M baked beans and brown bread.

On Friday I read an odd little AP clip in Portland Daily Sun that B&M was trucking a bunch of beans and canned products to the earthquake relief effort in Haiti. Well that wasn't the odd part, what was odd is that the plant also produces chicken and roast beef under the 'Underwood' label, as well as Ortega refried beans.

Wait, what?

Ortega refried beans ... in Portland?

I figured it could be an error - the Daily Sun is a freebie, after all - so I went to the web and found an article from ... "New Jersey Real-Time News".

Well, that's less real-sounding, for sure, but they own the domain "nj.com" so they have to be sorta legitimate.

So here's it is in black and white:

    "In addition to Underwood canned meats, the Portland plant also makes B&M baked beans, Ortega refried beans and B&M brown bread."

The rest of the article is here: "Maine food plant for N.J.-based company sends food to Haiti".

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