Episodes

• McMuffins & Manischewitz

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  Discover how to make Egg McMuffins; find out what it takes to farm and shuck oysters; and visit the home of America’s top-selling kosher wine.

• Sriracha & Tamales

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  Inside a sriracha hot-sauce empire; POM Wonderful pomegranate juice; and at this factory, each pork tamale is hand-wrapped, steamed, and x-rayed.

• Lemons & Space Food

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  Sunkist’s squeaky clean lemon headquarters; freeze-dried astronaut food is a serious business; it’s worth the drive to Texas for pecan pie.

• Bacon Flavored Soda & Chocolate

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  The ultimate bacon experience: discover the magic in bacon-flavored soda, a smokehouse bacon recipe, and creamy, crunchy bacon chocolate.

• Cookies & Crab Cake

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  The secrets of Cold Stone ice cream; five brothers from Vietnam perfect flaky French pastries; flying fish while ordering crab cake.

• Brisket, Energy Drinks, & Candy

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  A smokehouse puts the magic in one of Arby’s signature sandwiches; a candy with a cult following; and an energy drink that delivers a wallop.

• Sliders, Crackers, & Mandarins

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  It takes mountains of meat to keep up with demand for White Castle sliders; this machine processes 1.7 million mandarin oranges each hour; and crackers showered with love.

• Pez & Chicken Parmesan

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  Get the scoop on PEZ candies and their dispensers; learn the secret to making cheez-y crispy mini waffles; and there’s plenty of ‘amore’ in this chicken Parmesan from Texas.

• Buns, Popcorn Chips, & S'mores

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  Enjoy this campfire treat without roughing it; meet the burger bun you can customize; and discover popcorn chips that are a popular snack in the sky.

• Whiskey & Coke

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  Visit Jack Daniels’ Tennessee HQ; celebrate the 100th birthday of Coca-Cola’s iconic contour bottle; bite into a frank with a major Hollywood connection.

• Coffee & Clam Chowder

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  Dunkin’ Donuts serves up 1.8 billion cups of coffee per year; surf clams are transformed into chowder; and visit the Slap Stix lollipop factory.

• Slaw & Soup

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  A million mini cheeses every day; the famous face behind Soupman’s hearty lentil soup; a revolutionary new condiment that’s part slaw and part salsa.

• Tomatoes & Cheese Sticks

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  Keep up with the demand for Quiznos subs, ripen green tomatoes a single day, transform 100k pounds of cheese into crispy mozzarella sticks.

• Food Factory USA 2

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• Fish Fillets & Corn Dogs

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  Learn the secret to fish fillets; this outfit turns out 40 million pounds of corn dogs each year; and find out what makes these rice crisps crunch.

• Pickled Peppers & Bagels

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  Mt. Olive pickled peppers; New Yorker Bagels’ everything bagel; and Barber Foods' iconic stuffed chicken Cordon Bleu.

• Bubblegum, Horseradish & Cupcakes

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  Big League Chew bubblegum; this horseradish may bring tears to your eyes; and a national security incident landed these cupcakes in the spotlight.

• Applesauce & Onion Rings

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  Discover what a laser beam and applesauce have in common; making ultra-creamy fudge; and this factory produces a billion onion rings every year.

• Donuts & Pepperoni Rolls

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  This bakery makes 600 million donuts a year; a team of workers is behind every pepperoni roll; and these multigrain snacks are hand-dipped in chocolate.

• Blondies & Cheddar Cheese

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  Get the skinny on cheesecakes on a stick; see what it takes to make a 5,000-pound cheese wheel; and these blondies are shipped across the country.

• Curds & Cow Pie Candles

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  Wisconsin’s favorite foods: Three million deep-fried cheese curds daily; caramel pecans shaped like cow pies; the science behind candy crystals.

• Salsa, Pralines, & Buffalo Sauce

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  Mountains of jalapenos make salsa verde; hand-crafted pecan pralines; and find out how a tangy sauce put this major league snack on the map.

• Fig Newmans & Organic Butter

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  A fig newton that’s literally 80-feet long; a very special Wisconsin butter; and a candy factory that produces organic pomegranate hard candies.

• Tea, Hoisin & Ice Cream Cookies

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  Tea leaves get to lie down on the job; a hoisin sauce is popular with Chinese astronauts; ice cream sandwiches are a San Francisco tradition since 1928.

• Olives, Ice Pops, & Cookie Chips

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  The epic story of the black olive; this ice pop is like a smoothie on a stick; and find out how to produce millions of cookie chips every week.

• Mexi-Fries, Toffee & Absinthe

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  Find out how potatoes transform into Mexi-Fries; toffees with connections to Hollywood royalty; and a distillery that makes absinthe.

• Candy Wafers & Meat Pies

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  On this episode of Food Factory USA: Necco candy wafers; pies made by the English Pork Pie Company; and GinsengUp combines soda with an ancient root.

• Chocolate Syrup, Tortillas & Mac and Cheese

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  Chocolate syrup has a Hollywood connection. A Boston facility pumps out half a million tortillas every day. A mac ’n’ cheese with hidden veggies.

• Minty Cheesy Taffy

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  Shriver’s Salt Water Taffy hasn’t changed in over a century; Coach Farm’s cheese has a surprising connection to handbags; and Haviland Thin Mints.

• Fishy Nutty Soda

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  Highliner makes millions of cod fillets each year; Peanut Chews, a nutty candy bar; and Moxie, a soda that spawned its own adjective.

• Cannoli & Cheese Balls

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  Cheez Doodles bake 44,000 balls per minute; Golden Cannoli is the world’s largest supplier of cannoli; beer is the magic ingredient in a BBQ sauce.

• Chips & Lollipops

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  Herr’s Kettle cooked potato chips are lovingly fried; 2.5 billion Dum-Dums are produced annually; a secret recipe for 5.7 million daily Joy Cones.

• Sliders, Salsa & Chocolate

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  White Castle makes their popular cheeseburger sliders; Red Gold Salsa reveals its signature zing; the secrets of chocolate-covered Cordial Cherries.

• Carrot Cake & Ice Cream

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  A pilgrimage to Budweiser's St. Louis HQ; the cryogenic process behind Dippin’ Dots ice cream; and a bakery that makes 80,000 carrot cakes every day.

• Bourbon & Burritos

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  Meet the great grandson of bourbon maker Jim Beam; TruMoo chocolate milk is blended by the truckload; and watch Tina’s Burritos being hand rolled!

• Ramen & Challah

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  A perfect bowl of ramen noodles; a classic American candy bar; and Challah egg bread, lovingly braided by hand.

• Beans, Farfalle & Tea

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  Del Monte beans are picked and packed the same day; a state-of-the-art facility makes farfalle pasta by the ton; and an iced tea that’s infused with the spirit of reggae.

• Ice Cream & Rolls

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  What makes Red Fusion smoothie cool; a bakery makes 400k cinnamon rolls daily; Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory workers take home 3 free pints a day.

• Cherries & Muffins

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  30k Smarties per minute; 1.6 million boxes of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix daily; and 10 million tart dried cherries every year.

• Filet Mignon & Dirty Rice

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  Meet the team behind Omaha Steak’s filet mignons; Zatarain’s Dirty Rice has been a favorite since 1889; Annie’s Cheddar Bunnies multiply like rabbits.

• French Fries & Frozen Pizza

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  Follow the trajectory of McDonald’s French Fries; Cracker Jack makes candy by the truckload; a pizza factory grinds 6-million pounds of cheese a year.

• Turducken & Mustard

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  Learn the secret behind America’s favorite mustard; meet the workers who stitch together Turduckens; and 20 tons of gooey caramel a day go into Affy Tapples caramel apples.

• Jerky, Brownies & Sugar Cubes

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  Discover the preferred outer space protein among astronauts; watch as raw sugar is made into Domino's sugar cubes; and brownies are baked in a Ferris wheel-style oven.

• Pretzels & Cookies

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  Meet the famous cookies that make millions for charity; an ice cream sandwich combining vanilla and chocolate; and see the HQ of cheese-filled pretzel pockets.

• Chocolate Pretzels & Jam

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  Welch’s Concord Grape Jam; grandma-perfected pierogies; and flipping delicious chocolate-covered pretzels.