Rendering Truck
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Rendering Truck
One of the finer hazards of East Texas riding is the Bo Pilgrim rendering trucks. These are trucks that make the rounds of the chicken farms and gather up the dead birds. Sometimes one of the trucks will be a little full, and the dead chickens, chicken parts, and chicken guts start sloshing around. When the truck comes to a stop the load sloshes forward, and then sloshes back, usually spilling out over onto the road, and right in the approach to an intersection.
Came upon the leftovers of a rendering truck stop this morning in the little burg of Hughes Springs right outside the local motel/restaurant, Wildflower Inn (think Dew Drop Inn/Charlie Daniels/Ballad of Uneasy Rider). There was a grease slick about 20 feet long, all kinds of slimy chicken parts (parts is parts!), and enough guts to put smiles on the faces of at least 20 dogs. The stuff was already stinking, and I wondered if the smell would be noticed at the restaurant. (Nah, probably not.)
Luckily there was plenty of room to swing left, and no traffic, so I blew through the stop sign. If someone had not recognized what the mess was, and tried to stop in it ... well, let's just say it wouldn't have been pretty, but could've been damn funny!
Came upon the leftovers of a rendering truck stop this morning in the little burg of Hughes Springs right outside the local motel/restaurant, Wildflower Inn (think Dew Drop Inn/Charlie Daniels/Ballad of Uneasy Rider). There was a grease slick about 20 feet long, all kinds of slimy chicken parts (parts is parts!), and enough guts to put smiles on the faces of at least 20 dogs. The stuff was already stinking, and I wondered if the smell would be noticed at the restaurant. (Nah, probably not.)
Luckily there was plenty of room to swing left, and no traffic, so I blew through the stop sign. If someone had not recognized what the mess was, and tried to stop in it ... well, let's just say it wouldn't have been pretty, but could've been damn funny!
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Where I work there is a rendering plant nearby that does the same thing, except with larger animals (cows, horses, etc). Trucks go by all the time with legs and such hanging over the edges. Don't know how anybody works there. It used to be called Seattle Rendering, but they had to get all fancy (or maybe to hide the fact of what is really in the trucks) and changed their name a while back to Baker Commodities. Sounds much nicer, doesn't it? Still smells the same. 
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There used to be a rendering plant in Asheville and people from there would come into our store to get parts for their machines. It was all I could do to wait on them...they smelled just like the plant. Two of my kids did their stint at McDonalds and you know what? They smelled just like those people from the rendering plant when after their shift. No wonder there are so many vegetarians around...
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This kind of chit is why I want to become a vegetarian. Somehow I just have to develop the will power to live without barbecue. Maybe if I move to East Texas and see and smell those trucks and rendering plants it will push me over the line. Veggies here I come. 
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Nope, doesn't tempt me to go veggie. I coulda slid through that slop with my mouth open, gotten up, and stopped at the Sonic for a burger.
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when i was a kid i was sent down to the Amour plant in Memphis to pick up pork shoulders for the ham plant i worked for. Checking out after pickup, there was 3-4 gates and the trucks would have to wait in line. One day there was 3 lines 6-8 trucks long and one with only 3 trucks so mr brillant driver that i am i pulled in back of the last truck on the short line and about 4 other trucks pulled right in behind me trapping me in line right behind a flatbed truck full of stinking cowhides! Man were they ripe! i had to jump out of the truck and thats when i figured out that everyone else knew about that truck but me! Its funny now.
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