(02-03-2018 04:46 AM)Dak10 Wrote: (02-02-2018 08:26 PM)plaidtiger Wrote: (02-02-2018 07:17 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote: (02-02-2018 05:28 PM)jamammy Wrote: (02-02-2018 05:02 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote: I don't have to consume their product to wish good fortune on a local company.
I don't think they are local.
Yeah turns out they're not.
I hope they burn in hell.
Yeah, strange name for a San Francisco company.
Started in Memphis by a St. Jude Dr.
The sooner the better, though I’m sure we are years out.
Owner of local Baby Jacks BBQ is involved with them as well. They reportedly tested a number of names and Memphis Meats resonated well.
https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/mee...id=4494531
"Clem, one of the company's cofounders and tissue engineers, is the local tie...
He wound up in Memphis with a career as a human tissue engineer for Wright Medical. But Clem couldn't resist the siren song of barbecue, and he soon found himself back in the restaurant industry. He opened Baby Jack's (named after his younger son) in 2012 as a side project, but business picked up so much that he eventually left Wright Medical to operate the restaurant full-time."
Where the name came from:
http://archive.commercialappeal.com/busi...5301.html/
"The startup tested about a dozen potential company names in a survey of 1,000 people, and "Memphis Meats'' was most popular by far, Valeti said.
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"Memphis could offer more than its barbecue cachet to Memphis Meats. The city could host a big, cultured-meat production facility.
"We love Memphis,'' Valeti said. "If there is an opportunity for setting up a company plant there, we would love that. But at the same time we will explore the skills sets at other places in the U.S.
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