For those of you that may not remember the Dugan man he delivered, to your home, bread,cakes,pastries and potato chips among other bakery items.
I remember seeing his truck pulling into the yard. He was a friendly man and always spoke to me. My name is Ben and he called me B E up and down. That came from the fact I couldn’t remember the letter N when he asked me to spell my name. So I became B E up and down forever. Of course forever in a childs view may have been two years or so. The company, Dugan Brothers Bakery went out of buisness in 1967. A victim of grocery stores and the cost of home delivery.
I have a particulary fond memory of the Dugan man. On one of his visits to my Grandmothers house she purchased a bag of potato chips. Potato chips were a bit of a novelty item then and came packaged in a wax paper bag that was stapled shut. I was given this bag of chips and kid fashion tried to open it by using my teeth to remove the staples. I cut my lip on the staple and combined with the salt from the chips it stung like crazy! I cried to my Grandmother about this and she told me she would tell that “Dugan Man” about it. She assured me something would be done.
The very next time the Dugan man came he called out to me,hey B E up and down I have something specialy made for you. I ran over to him and he presented me with a bag of potato chips. I looked at that bag and the top was sealed shut with a crinkled apperance. The Dugan man explained to me that because of that staple cutting my lip the Dugan Company changed the way they sealed the bag. In fact he said all the other companies would too ! Whats’ more he gave me that bag free of charge.
For a very long time I firmly believed that was the reason bags were sealed the way they are now. Sounded reasonable to me.
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For those of you that may not remember the Dugan man he delivered, to your home, bread,cakes,pastries and potato chips among other bakery items.
I remember seeing his truck pulling into the yard. He was a friendly man and always spoke to me. My name is Ben and he called me B E up and down. That came from the fact I couldn’t remember the letter N when he asked me to spell my name. So I became B E up and down forever. Of course forever in a childs view may have been two years or so. The company, Dugan Brothers Bakery went out of buisness in 1967. A victim of grocery stores and the cost of home delivery.
I have a particulary fond memory of the Dugan man. On one of his visits to my Grandmothers house she purchased a bag of potato chips. Potato chips were a bit of a novelty item then and came packaged in a wax paper bag that was stapled shut. I was given this bag of chips and kid fashion tried to open it by using my teeth to remove the staples. I cut my lip on the staple and combined with the salt from the chips it stung like crazy! I cried to my Grandmother about this and she told me she would tell that “Dugan Man” about it. She assured me something would be done.
The very next time the Dugan man came he called out to me,hey B E up and down I have something specialy made for you. I ran over to him and he presented me with a bag of potato chips. I looked at that bag and the top was sealed shut with a crinkled apperance. The Dugan man explained to me that because of that staple cutting my lip the Dugan Company changed the way they sealed the bag. In fact he said all the other companies would too ! Whats’ more he gave me that bag free of charge.
For a very long time I firmly believed that was the reason bags were sealed the way they are now. Sounded reasonable to me.
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