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Buckshot Bear Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 1947 Golden Circle cannery opens. By the mid-1940s, the pineapple industry was well-established in Queensland. To provide marketing and financial stability, a cooperative was formed to finance the building of a cannery. Golden Circle Cannery was opened at Northgate in 1947. The company was originally called Queensland Tropical Fruit Products, using “Golden Circle” as a brand name. Over 900 growers originally bought shares in the cooperative. Excess fruit produced at any time of the year could be canned, evening out fluctuations in production and demand and providing stability for the industry. The Queensland Government was so enthusiastic about the new enterprise that it sent the future Queen Elizabeth 500 cases of canned pineapple to celebrate the occasion of her marriage in London. Golden Circle’s first products were canned pineapple and jams. In 1948 the company began to produce canned paw paw, pineapple jelly, citrus cordials and tropical fruit salad. In the 1950s pineapple juice and other fruit juices were introduced, with canned beetroot marketed nationally from the 1960s. And, of course, it was important to keep in shape, so you could enjoy dieting with the unsweetened “Dietetic” products. Advertising for the brand consistently took a recipe approach, encouraging housewives to use pineapple in cooking. In the 1950s it was all about keeping your man happy, with headlines like “Lure those man-eaters with pineapple promise”. It even promised to save marriages, saying “Golden Circle helps you hold your man with this perfume”. Advertising regularly appeared in the Australian Women’s Weekly and the magazine did much to support the company. Pineapple, fresh and canned, had been featured in many previous recipe competitions but, in the early 1960s, the pineapple recipes that emerged from the Leila Howard kitchen specified Golden Circle pineapple rings, crushed pineapple or pineapple pieces. Golden Circle became an unlisted public company in 1992. In 2003 the Cannery Board bought the rights to The Original Juice Company in Griffith NSW. This proved to be an unsound investment and in 2007 Golden Circle was forced to sell 35% of the organisation to a US equity company, the first sale of shares to anyone other than the growers. In 2008, Golden Circle became wholly owned by Heinz. Australian Food Timeline 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 TREE-FELLERS - 1905 Tree-fellers using axes to fell a large tree on the Atherton Tableland in North Queensland. The tree-fellers are using springboards as a means of getting higher up the trunk of the tree. 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alpo Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 6 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: In 1948 the company began to produce canned paw paw, pineapple jelly, citrus cordials and tropical fruit salad. What is jelly in Australia? Here in the states we have basically three types of fruit flavored spread that goes on toast. One is jelly, which is made solely from fruit juice. Generally all we have is apple jelly or grape jelly, but I suppose we could have pineapple jelly. I just haven't seen it. In Britain, jelly is a gelatin dessert - what we would call jello. What is it in Oz? Do you spread pineapple jelly on your toast, or do you eat it out of a bowl with a spoon, possibly with whipped cream on it? Or is it something else entirely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 3 minutes ago, Alpo said: What is jelly in Australia? Here in the states we have basically three types of fruit flavored spread that goes on toast. One is jelly, which is made solely from fruit juice. Generally all we have is apple jelly or grape jelly, but I suppose we could have pineapple jelly. I just haven't seen it. In Britain, jelly is a gelatin dessert - what we would call jello. What is it in Oz? Do you spread pineapple jelly on your toast, or do you eat it out of a bowl with a spoon, possibly with whipped cream on it? Or is it something else entirely? Alpo what you fellas would call jello...... What you call jelly we call jam. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Do y'all have preserves? As I say, we have three types. Jelly, which is made from fruit juice. As you can see through the jar, there's nothing in there except sweetened thickened fruit juice. No seeds, no lumps. Jam which is made from fruit pulp. As you can see here it is thicker than jelly, and has little bitty teeny pieces of fruit. And preserves which has got big chunks of fruit in it. In the case of strawberry. I prefer preserves over jam, and until I started looking just now I didn't even know they made strawberry jelly. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Buckshot Bear Posted April 16 Author Share Posted April 16 GAME HUNTERS - 1902 The 14ft crocodile was shot by game hunter, ‘Mr White’ in 1902. Photographed by Innisfail magistrate, William Pettigrew Wilson. THE Imperial Hotel at Innisfail sat across the road from the Johnstone River, a notorious waterway known for crocodiles. The large timber two-storey hotel was the preferred accommodation for game hunters visiting north Queensland to snag themselves a giant trophy croc early last century. The Imperial Hotel was built for David William Henry in July 1899. Henry had a short stay as host and died less than six months later, in January 1900 – not as a consequence of a croc attack, but by a less dramatic cause, related to “acute congestion of the kidneys”. He was just 45. Henry’s widow took over as licensee of the Imperial after his death, until she moved to Townsville to open a pub by the same name in 1906. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 cute little lizard , ya got there CB 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rip Snorter Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 3 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: Sorry No contest, however I can go most places with a 45 behind my right hip. 1 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted April 17 Author Share Posted April 17 1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said: No contest, however I can go most places with a 45 behind my right hip. Touche 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 2 hours ago, Rip Snorter said: No contest, however I can go most places with a 45 behind my right hip. 1 hour ago, Buckshot Bear said: Touche ....... what the Bear said .......... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 On 4/10/2024 at 10:54 PM, Buckshot Bear said: In this country, Kix was/is a kid’s breakfast cereal. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Buckshot Bear Posted April 18 Author Share Posted April 18 31 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: In this country, Kix was/is a kid’s breakfast cereal. Geez....be bad to get that mixed up! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 21 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: Geez....be bad to get that mixed up! I know, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Buckshot Bear Posted April 18 Author Share Posted April 18 Robert Muldoon, long time ago Prime Minister of New Zealand, who said after being asked if he was concerned about the large numbers of New Zealanders migrating to Australia, replied “no, it had the effect of raising the average IQ of both countries.” 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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