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[Dam Yankee]

On 1/30/2015 september said:

Yep...just looked up Bacardi, and it seems they left the Bahamas years ago. (I really liked that tour)

I'll have to try to visit the Florida location.

Check out the Anheuser Busch tour, as well. It's pretty cool, especially when the Clydesdales are in town. I think that's usually the weekend before the Daytona 500.

[september]

Dam Yankee, I've been to Busch Gardens...that's the location you mean, right? Loved that.

I've also seen the Clydesdales in NH, at the Budweiser Brewery in Merrimack. They aren't always on site there either (they travel), but I did see them up close and personal. Just beautiful.

[Eliana]

Michigan:

Faygo pop

Verner's ginger ale

Koegel's hotdogs

Better Made potato chips

Kellogg's cereal

Carhartt

Great Lakes Coffee, Paramount Coffee, Biggby Coffee

St. Julian, Chateau Chantal, Leelanau wines

Stroh's ice cream

Jiffy mix

Gerber baby food

Art Van

La-Z-Boy

Whirlpool

Pioneer Sugar and Big Chief Sugar

Honeybaked Ham

Vlasik pickles

[Dam Yankee]

On 1/30/2015 september said:

Dam Yankee, I've been to Busch Gardens...that's the location you mean, right? Loved that.

I've also seen the Clydesdales in NH, at the Budweiser Brewery in Merrimack. They aren't always on site there either (they travel), but I did see them up close and personal. Just beautiful.

I actually meant the Budweiser plant in Jacksonville. We've seen them there, twice... up close and personal, just like you said. There's one named Dillon that I wanted to horsenap. He was soooo sweet, but I couldn't get him into my purse.

[Zhills]

Only 35% are over 65 because snowbirds are not residents in Florida - they are residents where they still have a home somewhere up north. My plan of 140 homes goes down to only 8 who stay here all summer.The largest employer in our town is the hospital which averages 20 patients a day in the summer and is full capacity in season. many of the full time residents of Florida love to go on & on about how they dislike the snowbirds - but they certainly like our money , don't they. Without snowbirds Florida would financially collapse.

Without Tourists, yes, maybe; without Snowbirds, hardly!

[jubilant]

On 1/30/2015 shoptilyadropagain said:

....off the top of my head for Indiana

Corn, Cantaloupes, Soybeans, Tomatoes & other produce

Speaking of tomatoes - Red Gold canned tomato products

Eli Lilly (pharmaceuticals)

Wicks Pies

Abbott's Candies (Caramels & Chocolate)

Vera Bradley

I thought of a couple more from Indiana:

Bar Keepers Friend
Clabber Girl Baking Powder
Delta Faucets
Sechler's Pickles
Weaver Popcorn
Limestone (lots of it)
Furniture
Automotive (Suburu, Honda, Toyota)

[Catitude]

Wine

[kittymomNC]

Really bad legislative decisons....

But other than that - KRISPY CREME DONUTS (originated and still headquartered in Winston-Salem NC)

IBM Electronics

Pharmaceuticals

Furniture

And the best barbecue, brunswick stew and hush puppies you can find anywhere!

[60sgirl]

On 1/30/2015 LipstickDiva said:

There are a lot of things made in Ohio but I know we have the corporate headquarters throughout Ohio for all these companies:

Harry London Chocolates

Libbey Glass

Malleys Chocolates

Proctor & Gamble (Cincinnati)

American Greetings (Cleveland)

Rubbermaid

Nestle

Sherwin Williams

Goodyear (Akron)

Little Tikes

Hoover and Dirt Devil

Smuckers jams and jellies

Dutch Boy paints

eukanuba and Iams pet food

Avery Denison labels

Schwebel bread and rolls

Orlando Baking Company

Pierre's ice cream

Cheryl's cookies

Christmas Ale and Burning River beer- Great Lakes Brewing Co

Archway cookies

Tony Packo's foods

Tide, Gain Dreft, Era laundry soaps from P&G in Cincinnati

[Rus Girl]

Well, I guess I need to represent the Land of Enchantment- New Mexico!!!

Hatch Green Chile (the best in the world- no contest)

Oil and natural gas

A LOT of your favorite TV shows and movies are filmed here. The entertainment industry is BOOMING in NM.

A lot of our nations defense/scientific research- White Sands/Los Alamos/Sandia National Labs

Other mining- uranium, silver, copper, turquoise, and others.

Storing everyone else's nuclear waste