Do you have an oh-so-bad craving for something chewy? Oberto Sausage Company has the answer: Its Oh Boy! meat snacks. The company manufactures more than 400 varieties of dried meat products, such as jerky (in beef, pork, and turkey versions), snack sausages. All these goodies are sold under the brand names Lowrey's Meat Snacks, Oh Boy! Oberto, Pacific Gold, and Smoke Craft. Oberto's products are available across the US and Canada in supermarkets, club and convenience stores. In 2009 the company ended its 10-year distribution agreement with Frito-Lay.

Be it pigs in a blanket or chicken in a basket, Olymel will bring the meat to the table. Located in Quebec, the company is one of Canada's largest pork and poultry processors. Its products, including bacon, deli meats, hams, sausages, and frozen, microwaveable meat dishes, sell under the Olymel, Lafleur Flamingo, Prince, and Galco Foods brands. They are distributed throughout Canada and exported to Australia, Japan, the US, and 60 other countries. The company has a combined slaughtering and processing capacity of 160,000 hogs and 1.6 million poultry per week at its facilities in Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta.

You might say a steady diet of red meat has made this company big and strong. OSI Industries (doing business as OSI Group) is one of the largest suppliers of meat products to foodservice operators. Through its operating companies, OSI provides a variety of beef, pork, and poultry products, including beef patties, hot dogs, sausages, bacon, and chicken nuggets. It has long been a supplier of beef to fast-food chain McDonald's. In addition, OSI offers contract manufacturing and packaging services for other food processors; it has more than 40 manufacturing facilities around the world. The company traces its roots to a family meat market started by Otto Kolschowsky.

That wonderful aroma you smell as you pass through Pennsylvania Dutch country is no baloney, it's bologna. And part of the reason is Palmyra Bologna. The company, which does business as Seltzer's Smokehouse Meats, makes cured beef bologna sausage in five varieties (Beef Lebanon Bologna, Double Smoked Sweet Bologna, Lower-Sodium Lebanon Bologna, Smoke 'n Honey Beef Roll, and Sweet Lebanon Bologna) all under the Seltzer's brand name. Eschewing modernization, the company, located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, cures its products by smoking spiced, aged beef over hand-tended fires in old-fashioned wooden smokehouses. Palmyra's products are available in US supermarkets and other retail food outlets.

Patrick Cudahy, established in 1888, calls itself the "Home of Sweet Apple Wood Smoked Flavor," and that says it all. The company makes sliced ham, salami, and specialty Italian and deli meats for sandwich shops, delicatessens, and fast-food operators. Its retail products include sausage, bacon, boneless hams, lean ham and turkey products, and sliced luncheon meats. The company has expanded its products to include Hispanic and Latino specialties, including such items as chorizo, salami higueral, salchichon servecero, and more. Patrick Cudahy also makes foodservice products and oils for industrial and institutional use. Patrick Cudahy is owned by meat giant Smithfield Foods, which purchased it in 1984.

Patty King combines a delicious filling seasoned with island spices and a flaky golden crust to bring this traditional island treat to America. Patty King Jamaican Style Patties appeal to the mainstream market. And, since 1998 we have grown to become one of the largest manufacturers of Jamaican Patties in the United States. We are very proud of our products. In 2002, the U.S. Department of Commerce recognized Patty King as one of their Minority Manufacturing Firms of the Year.Take a bite and we think you’ll agree, Patty King Jamaican Style Patties are great additions to your breakfast, lunch or dinner offerings.Patty King is the Caribbean's #1 choice for beef patties. We provide great tasting Jamaican patties (meat pies) with the finest quality ingredients. And, they're great for restaurant service, cafeterias, parties and events!

Peco Foods hopes you'll do more than peek at their poultry parts. Producing some 18 million pounds of poultry every week, the company processes private-label and store brand chicken for US retail and foodservice customers. It also exports items to Canada, Mexico, South America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Peco's frozen, deli, and tray-pack products include boneless, skinless chicken breasts and tenderloins; boneless thighs; and jumbo legs and wings; as well as value-added breaded and flavored products. As a fully integrated processor, the company operates feed mills and hatcheries to support its poultry production facilities.

For meat eaters who delight in dining on swine, Pederson's Natural Farms produces fresh and processed natural pork products. The company's upscale uncured bacon ham, and smoked pork sausages (jalapeno, kielbasa, and sweet German) are sold at natural food and specialty food retailers, as well as through its Web site. Pederson's also offers beef hot dogs, chicken sausage, andouille, bratwurst, and bulk breakfast sausage. It also offers processesd bison meat. Headquartered in Hamilton, Texas, Pederson's Natural Farms was founded in 1992.

In China pigs fly and chickens cross the road to get to People's Food Holdings. At its processing plants located throughout China, People's Food produces and sells various high- and low-temperature meat products made from pork and poultry under the Jinluo brand name. The company supplies wholesalers and retailers nationally with sausages, fresh and frozen meats, and a selection of animal by-products used in other industries including food production, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Company chairman Ming Kam Sing owns a controlling interest in People's Food Holdings.

Chickens are always on the menu at this company. Perdue Incorporated is one of the largest poultry (chicken and turkey) producers in the US. The company operates live production and processing facilities in about 15 US states through its some 2,250 contracted poultry farmers. The Perdue Farms division processes and packs 3 billion pounds of chicken and 268 million pounds of turkey a year. Perdue sells poultry through retail food outlets and to foodservice customers, most of which are located in the eastern half of the US; the company also exports worldwide. Its Perdue Agribusiness unit processes grain for animal feed and pet food ingredients, makes vegetable oils, and manufactures fertilizer and renewable fuel.

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