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elisemBack in this entry I had an asterisk, and forgot to put in the footnote. I had said something about picking shiners on the line, which was when the bean cans had gone through the labeler and were about to go to the boxer and you had to grab up any of them that had missed getting labeled or had gotten the wrong label.
The latter wasn't too common, but it did happen. I remember one day a shout going up on the buff line -- the buff line was buffet cans, which are those little bitty ones that you buy when you don't need enough beans for a whole family -- and they turned the line off for a minute while we fished all the mislabeled cans out. They were pretty startling in their mislabeling, too. We weren't sure if any had gotten past us into the cases, but we weren't about to stop everything and open them up to see, not while things were piling up behind us. If you stop a line running for more than a minute, there's hell to pay.
But I still wonder every now and then if some lady who went to dump the canned pineapple chunks into her jello salad got a big surprise.
The latter wasn't too common, but it did happen. I remember one day a shout going up on the buff line -- the buff line was buffet cans, which are those little bitty ones that you buy when you don't need enough beans for a whole family -- and they turned the line off for a minute while we fished all the mislabeled cans out. They were pretty startling in their mislabeling, too. We weren't sure if any had gotten past us into the cases, but we weren't about to stop everything and open them up to see, not while things were piling up behind us. If you stop a line running for more than a minute, there's hell to pay.
But I still wonder every now and then if some lady who went to dump the canned pineapple chunks into her jello salad got a big surprise.
