Just leaving Argentina for Uruguay ...

We were heading for the famous Fray Bentos, home of the Fray Bentos meat processing plant ...

in Uruguay, not Argentina as some may believe ...

local Uruguays thought us a little crazy wanting to see this place ... but it's an icon in the UK, even for a veggie like Scouse

a spot of lunch in Fray Bentos :)

the famous processing plant is just over the way

Fray Bentos Rotary Club meet in a processing shed ...

More could be made of the museum, but it was interesting ...

Bully for you !

meat extraction process ...

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and what is used & how

Von Liebig, originator of the process

where Oxo was "born"

early Oxo ad

classy plate

sterilising the cans ...

Bully Bullion

cans of pure Bully "gold"

a happy meat processor

Sara meets the meat products ...

label changes over the decades

early marketing

THE factory

was in a beautiful setting

& in it's heyday employed more than 20,000 people from over 64 countries, and was similar to communities like Saltaire & Ellesmere port

in the 1980s the economic depression hit the plant hard and other countries fared better ...

so now only abandoned cranes ...

now abandoned, the wire fences make the factory look like a concentration camp for cattle (they were certainly concentrated!)

a monument to Liebig & his cattle processing