An hour or so West of Houston is the small town of Brenham. It is well known throughout Texas as the home of Blue Bell Ice Cream, where the cows are reported to believe that Brenham is Heaven. The commercials are filled with images of good-looking models and good looking cows. The company tagline is:We eat what we can, and we sell the rest. Like all factory tours, the Blue Bell Ice Cream Tour takes a bit of the romance out of the ice cream dreams inspired by the commercials. It is a manufacturing plant filled with shiny steel tubes,…
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Breakfast at Burger King
I had one of those Undercover Boss moments at the Burger King in Lindale, Texas. Lindale is right off of I-20 about five miles north of Tyler. The Burger King I went to is just north of the freeway. Undercover Boss is a reality show where the owners of businesses drop by and watch their employees without their knowledge. It’s a great show. Working fast food is right at the bottom of the food chain. These are jobs even Mike Rowe won’t take on. The job sucks and the people who run these places don’t seem to care that the…