Posted on 02/01/2005 3:18:29 PM PST by Rakkasan1
Ken Freiberg, who loved to ride in an old fire engine as founder of Captain Ken's Firehouse Baked Beans in the Minnesota State Fair parade, died Monday of cancer. He was 91. Freiberg rode in the parade for 28 years, usually in his beloved 1923 Ahrens Fox antique fire engine, before finally taking his last parade ride in September 2000 at age 87. "It comes a time you have to quit," the Marine on St. Croix resident said in a Pioneer Press interview for his last ride. "You don't know what's going to happen at my age." It was a recipe of molasses baked beans that propelled Freiberg to fame back when he was a fire captain for the St. Paul Fire Department.
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God rest his soul.
... 'he loved Malibu Barbie and her Corvette'
My late Uncle Ray was a close friend of the Captain. Whenever there was a weekend family get-together and food was involved, Ray would always stop by the shop and pick up 4-5 pounds of those fantastic beans, right out of the pot. Never frozen. The Greatest!
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