Burgers’ Smokehouse is a
smokehouse
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d and
smoke
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d meats and other foods in
California, Missouri
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. It is one of the largest processors of naturally cured hams in the U.S.
1992-01-01, Page B2, The Kansas City Star The company's packaging says "Home of Hickory Smoked, Sugar Cured Meats since 1927". However, the family's selling of hams by
E.M. Burger and his German mother Hulda is said to go back to the 1920s.
[Judith Evan]
Leftover Easter ham will make dinners a snap
04.10.2009 St. Louis Post-Dispatch The company sells hams, bacon, sausage, and over a dozen other specialty meats".
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Operations
The award-winning supplier sells through grocery stores, restaurants, and direct mail and over the internet. Its facility is located 3 miles south of California, Missouri on State Highway 87, along with the retail store on the premises of the factory.[Shifra Stein, Diana Lambdin Meyer]
Day Trips from Kansas City: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler
SHIFRA STEIN'S DAY TRIPS FROM KANSAS CITY, Day Trips from Kansas City: Getaways Less Than Two Hours Away, Shifra Stein's day trips series Edition 14, illustrated Publisher Globe Pequot, 2006 , , 214 pages page 60 In 2020, the retail store was closed after 95 years in operation. Sales from the store accounted for less than one percent of total business.
Trivia
The 122-unit casual burger chain Hard Rock Cafe
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began offering items from Burgers' in 2007. The company has sent care package
The CARE Package was the original unit of aid distributed by the humanitarian organization CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere). Originally CARE was dubbed the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, and in 1946 CARE se ...
s to U.S. troops in Iraq.[Daniel Klot]
Burgers' Smokehouse supporting soldiers with care packages
Nov 12, 2006 California Democrat
References
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External links
Burgers' Smokehouse website
Companies based in Missouri
Meat companies of the United States
Moniteau County, Missouri
Ham producers