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Morning View 061511

by Bryan Regan in The Morning View on 06/15/2011
4 Comments

Is that dog food I smell ? No, it’s the Cargill soybean processing plant on S. Blount St. Most people I know still call it the Purina plant. Drive by on a hot day and you won’t be disappointed by the smell.

4 Comments:

Raleigh Boy
06/15/2011

I have always loved the Purina plant, belching clouds of steam and ever redolent of cooked soybean mash. Its massive silos, once painted in Purina’s trademark giant red and white checker-board pattern, heralded the return to Raleigh from a family trip to the beach when I was a kid.

Travis
06/15/2011

I never forget this smell. I used to deal with this gag inducing odor on the way to Fuller Elementary school during the 70’s

Al
06/24/2011

I miss the red and white checkerboard paint of the Ralston Purina Plant. Those silos stood there like the gateway to the city from the South. I always marveled at them going out on an afternoon trip to Par Golf, The Charles Store, the Raleigh Municipal Airport, and of course The Planter’s Peanut Store.
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Arthur
12/27/2017

These are in the process of being torn down.