r8shell
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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Sometimes I think I have the strangest knife luck/karma!
After getting home from the grocery store, I'm about to make a sandwich. Had the fixings out on the counter: bread, deli meat, lettuce, etc. I was about to open the new jar of Miracle Whip when I spy something odd at the bottom of the jar. My first thought is, "EEwwww, yuck! what is that?!?"
There's some grey shape at the bottom. It's a new jar, and it's still got the tamper-proof seal. Checked the expiration date: good until August, 2018.
Maybe most folks would have just thrown it out, but I just got more and more curious.
So with much trepidation, I open the jar and fish around with a spoon. I can feel something hard at the bottom of the jar, like glass or metal, and I managed to scoop it out.
Morbidly curious, I rinse it off.
Cool! It's a 1973 Schrade Walden pocketknife made for Miracle Whip's 40th anniversary. Now, I'm sure it's not a 45 year old jar. (besides, if it had been an old promotional item, I doubt they would have just stuck the knives unwrapped into the dressing.
So...it fell out of a long-time employee's shirt pocket into a vat, or somewhere along the line at the processing/bottling plant? It certainly is a mystery.
It's a good thing the knife is stainless. I'm keeping the knife, but I'm throwing out the mayo!
After getting home from the grocery store, I'm about to make a sandwich. Had the fixings out on the counter: bread, deli meat, lettuce, etc. I was about to open the new jar of Miracle Whip when I spy something odd at the bottom of the jar. My first thought is, "EEwwww, yuck! what is that?!?"
There's some grey shape at the bottom. It's a new jar, and it's still got the tamper-proof seal. Checked the expiration date: good until August, 2018.Maybe most folks would have just thrown it out, but I just got more and more curious.
So with much trepidation, I open the jar and fish around with a spoon. I can feel something hard at the bottom of the jar, like glass or metal, and I managed to scoop it out.
Morbidly curious, I rinse it off.
Cool! It's a 1973 Schrade Walden pocketknife made for Miracle Whip's 40th anniversary. Now, I'm sure it's not a 45 year old jar. (besides, if it had been an old promotional item, I doubt they would have just stuck the knives unwrapped into the dressing.
So...it fell out of a long-time employee's shirt pocket into a vat, or somewhere along the line at the processing/bottling plant? It certainly is a mystery.
It's a good thing the knife is stainless. I'm keeping the knife, but I'm throwing out the mayo!
