Not a Porky PieI used to work in a 'meat product' factory.
One of my favourite jobs was puttng the jelly into the pork pies. The jelly starts of as a hot liquid which you have to inject into the pies individually with a jelly gun and then they are all shoved into a massive chiller for the jelly to set.
Several of us would stand in a line like robots injecting jelly into pies....for about 4 hours at a time. To entertain ourselves we used to shoot each other in the face with searing hot jelly...that kind of sums up how mind-numbingly boring it was.
After 6 months I was told I was sufficiently expert at being a 'jelly-man' tha I qualified for a skill bonus....I got an extra 2 pence an hour!!!!!! Talk about taking the fucking piss! Of course, I cannot look a pork pie in the face these days let alone eat one after such a traumatic experience.
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One of my favourite jobs was puttng the jelly into the pork pies. The jelly starts of as a hot liquid which you have to inject into the pies individually with a jelly gun and then they are all shoved into a massive chiller for the jelly to set.
Several of us would stand in a line like robots injecting jelly into pies....for about 4 hours at a time. To entertain ourselves we used to shoot each other in the face with searing hot jelly...that kind of sums up how mind-numbingly boring it was.
After 6 months I was told I was sufficiently expert at being a 'jelly-man' tha I qualified for a skill bonus....I got an extra 2 pence an hour!!!!!! Talk about taking the fucking piss! Of course, I cannot look a pork pie in the face these days let alone eat one after such a traumatic experience.