On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 10:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Michael A. Marsh writes: > > In that case, it's an economy of scale. Most people want white bread, so > > bread companies buy a lot more white flour than whole grain. > > That was probably true decades ago but I think that these days the > whole-wheat market is large enough that the cost differences are minimal.
We have 3 bread factories and one "Keebler" here in town. They get the bulk flour in via train cars, then transfer it to trucks then into the factory. It takes 3 Trucks to empty and transfer a single train car. Ratio of White flour to Wheat flour? What do you guess? 6-7 white flour train cars to 1 Wheat flour. We are talking 160,000 pounds each train car. Each car being a 100 ton car. Or how about the fact that the "Wonder-Bread" factory in Indianapolis still only receives white flour? What about the "Keebler" factory here in town? Well they make cookies and bread. Hugely slants the ratio to white flour, so I don't really now. I know this, mainly because I enjoy Real Life sized trains and see the process of loading the trucks, which is 24 hour a day process. It happens at both the CSX and Conrail yards in town. And I formerly worked on non-impact printing for marking things like bread wrappers and soda cans, mailing of letters, etc.... I learned many things and developed friends in a wide variety of industries. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
