Field Trip to Zook Molasses and Good Food, Inc.

On Tuesday, we went on a field trip to Zook Molasses and Good Food. When we first got there, we looked at some pictures of the tornado and the destruction that hit their company in November of 1999. Mrs. Mellette's brother-in-law, Ron Glessner, told us about the tornado and showed us were all the molasses is stored.

After that, he showed us upstairs where all the food is packaged. He showed us a new assembly line that makes caramel but it wasn't running that day. He showed us some other assembly lines, too. One man had something like a suction cup that could pick up a package and put it with the other packages on a skid.

They use the assembly line because they make more product with less people so they don't have to pay as many salaries. After showing us around, we tried molasses and blackstrap molasses. We also tried sorghum, then we had lunch. Lunch was pizza, Auntie Ann soft pretzels, apples with the caramel they make there, and Herrs potato chips. For drinks, we could have either Sprite, water, or my favorite - Root Beer. Some kids got some snacks and drinks from the vending machine. After we ate lunch, we went to the shop and got candy, pancake mix, and lots of other stuff. Mrs. Mellette's parents and sisters then provided a goodie bag for all of us. The goodie bag was filled with candy, a flashlight, a molasses cookie, a pad of paper and a pencil.

When we got back from our field trip, we had to fill out a paper about Zook Molasses and Good food. Zook Molasses started in 1934. Good Food,Inc started in 1980. Zook Molasses makes products for animals and Good Food products for people. Zook Molasses and Good Food makes products for many different companies. They get oil that has been squeezed out of soybeans. They take the oil and then they mix it and make it into olive oil and other oils that you eat. You can't make it into car oil but it still is useful.

By: Brandon