Posted on 09/27/2019 12:45:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A tractor-trailer hauling 38,000 pounds of raw Tyson chicken caught fire early Friday morning on Interstate 40, blocking all the interstate's westbound lanes for a time, according to the Ozark Fire Department.
Fire Chief Nick Trotter said the driver was able to disconnect the tractor from the trailer and was not injured. No other injuries were reported either.
The department responded to the call just after 3 a.m. near exit 37 on westbound I-40 in Franklin County, Trotter said. The driver told firefighters he had seen sparks coming from the back of the trailer and then the tires caught fire.
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I’ll have a truckload of fried chicken, and a Coke.
Now that’s a massive barbecue.
If we can just get a beer truck to tip over too.
TYSONS CHICKEN specifically is Chicken McNuggets.
“...and then the tires caught fire....”
They probably had 300,000 miles on them.
If he's been eating his own sauce he's probably dead from the sugar diabeetus. That stuff is loaded with corn sugar.
They ain’t just baked, they’re charcoal broiled!
It is good. All the stuff that’s bad for you is good. Alcohol, BBQ, strange wimmens, etc. lol
I’ll bet you they put it on a barge and sink it 100 miles off the coast.
Just in time for Bikes, Blues and BBQ. Coincidence? I think not.
Divvy it up and send it to the (several) large catfish farms in the area.
I'm sure things are different now, but back in the old days they might have dumped it in the local town garbage.
Many many years ago a trailer carrying frozen food caught fire on a local highway, and everything was sent to the town dump. We lived near the dump, it was a small town, and word traveled fast. My Mom filled the back of the station wagon with boxes of frozen vegetables that had not been damaged... and we ate Birds Eye Peas and Carrots for years. To this day I can't stand the sight of them. ;-)
Too bad the chicken truck did not collide with the green bean and corn trucks.
It is rare, but a truck at a truckstop may have a rejected load such as beef sticks, paper towels, bananas, canned goods. That is 100s of dollars of free food when it happens.
Peas & Carrots are very nutritious, but most kids just want whatever the entre is. Their Salisbury Steak was pretty good, with a dab of mashed potatoes.
My dad grew up during The Depression, and his family received dozens of bags of Government Raisins. Like you, he wanted nothing to do with that particular food when he was making the choices. Not even as Raisin Bran.
That would be like a country dinner for 20,000 families!
Then Fort Smith or Little Rock could come and have a giant hoe-down!
No dry white toast?
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