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Anyone work at the Haribo plant in Finglas?

  • 06-05-2012 03:56AM
    #1
    jayteecork
    Site Banned Posts: 5,676 ✭✭✭


    <3 Haribo.

    Must be the best job in the world.


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  • #2
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    I wish dude, I wish. Never even knew it was there. :eek:
    We should try and crash the place, get a fake uniform, say we're from headquarters, quality control check.

    omnyomnyomnyomnyomnyom.

    you in?


  • #3
    tvercetti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭tvercetti


    I once met someone who worked in Argos, turns out theres no elves involved, its all pretty straight forward really, what a shame


  • #4
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    Congratulations OP. How many years did it take you to get in there. Trying to feel good about your menial factory job, eh? Aw well, at least the Haribo sweets might keep you happy.


  • #5
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    in haribo, gummy bears are viewed as legal tender and workers wages come in the form of them. true story


  • #6
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    Never appealed to me, never even bought a packet. Visually it doesn't appeal to me, the blue the red, just two colours that don't go together. Blue isn't an appetising colour. Transparent plastic aswell cheapens the whole thing. Possibly nice sweets? I won't know unless they sort out the packaging first. Thanks.


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  • #7
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    Never appealed to me, never even bought a packet. Visually it doesn't appeal to me, the blue the red, just two colours that don't go together. Blue isn't an appetising colour. Transparent plastic aswell cheapens the whole thing. Possibly nice sweets? I won't know unless they sort out the packaging first. Thanks.

    but the pack tastes lovely!


  • #8
    Lionel Messy
    Site Banned Posts: 612 ✭✭✭Lionel Messy


    Sweet job, man.


  • #9
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    Haribo.....not a patch on Natural Confectionery Co. Love the jelly squirms.

    Haribi....where Cola Bottles taste the same as Fried Eggs.


  • #10
    racso1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭racso1975


    Pedant wrote: »
    Trying to feel good about your menial factory job, eh? .


    Wow! look down on people much?


  • #11
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    racso1975 wrote: »
    Wow! look down on people much?

    The name gives it away, surely. :pac:


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  • #12
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    in haribo, gummy bears are viewed as legal tender and workers wages come in the form of them. true story

    :eek: :eek: :eek:


  • #13
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    No; but when I was a teenager (about twenty years ago) I did work experience for a week in a sweet factory in Carlow. I took out of date Easter eggs out of their boxes and broke them into pieces all day. When there was enough broken pieces I would bring them to another part of the factory and throw them into a machine where they would be melted down and turned into 'new' chocolate bars.


  • #14
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    racso1975 wrote: »
    Wow! look down on people much?

    <*Activates Bastard Mode*>

    They're looked down on for a reason.


  • #15
    BornToKill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭BornToKill


    A pedantic bastard? Great...


  • #16
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    Pedant wrote: »
    Congratulations OP. How many years did it take you to get in there. Trying to feel good about your menial factory job, eh? Aw well, at least the Haribo sweets might keep you happy.

    Not inclined to think he works there, think he WANTS to work there, which is a shame, just means your smart arsery has gone to waste a bit ;)


  • #17
    EGAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    Yuck, gelatin is used in the making which is derived from the insides of animal skins and bones. Eww


  • #18
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,350 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    It's probably much like working in a South African diamond mine, where cavity searches are the norm for the staff when they go home.

    Putting the smuggled sweets back in the factory system Is probably the reason why Haribo sweets taste like sh1t.


  • #19
    cassel16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭cassel16


    I have an image of Haribo workers leaving work looking like Marge when she was at the candy convention...


  • #20
    MickySticks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭MickySticks


    Rowntree's Randoms FTW.

    *A black man approached me and said, "Can you tell me how to get to the train station, please?"
    I said, "Certainly, monkey face. You go past the jerk chicken, around the grape soda and, Muhammad's your cotton-picker, it's opposite the watermelon."
    I'm thinking to myself, "That's the last time I eat those ****ing Rowntree's Randoms!"

    *May not have happend.


  • #21
    Icepick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,453 ✭✭✭Icepick


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    in haribo, gummy bears are viewed as legal tender and workers wages come in the form of them. true story
    ya, but that's because it's in Finglas


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  • #22
    darlett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,316 ✭✭✭darlett


    MickySticks wrote: »
    Rowntree's Randoms FTW.

    *A black man approached me and said, "Can you tell me how to get to the train station, please?"
    I said, "Certainly, monkey face. You go past the jerk chicken, around the grape soda and, Muhammad's your cotton-picker, it's opposite the watermelon."
    I'm thinking to myself, "That's the last time I eat those ****ing Rowntree's Randoms!"

    *May not have happend.

    :mad: Thats just so wrong. I cant actually believe I read that.


    Sure isnt it beside the watermelon?!


  • #23
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    girl i used to work with jelly til i told her it had pork gelatine in it.


  • #24
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    my brothers briefly worked in a bakery and at the end of the day they got to bring home all the leftover muffins and cookies. It was a great few months.


  • #25
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    phasers wrote: »
    my brothers briefly worked in a bakery and at the end of the day they got to bring home all the leftover muffins and cookies. It was a great few months.

    i was like that when i worked in bewleys years ago. i used to go home with loads of stuff


  • #26
    Pretty Polly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Pretty Polly


    I love those fried eggs and the jellies with the white part on the back. Yummy:D


  • #27
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    I used to work in a sweet factory years ago(closed down now)but we used to make Liquorice Allsorts.
    Before I worked there I always wondered why when you got a bag of liquorice allsorts that there was ever only one of the blue jelly things that were covered in little beady things.
    It's because everyone in the factory eats them before they are packed:D

    I miss that job:(


  • #28
    yuppies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭yuppies


    After seeing how jelly sweets like haribo are made on supersize vs superskinny a few weeks back I was put off for life... can't find the clip on youtube but it was one of the few times a video like that put me off a food for good


  • #29
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    MickySticks wrote: »
    Rowntree's Randoms FTW.

    *An African American man approached me and said, "Can you tell me how to get to the train station, please?"
    I said, "Certainly sir. You go past the town clock, around the grass park and, Bob's your Uncle, it's opposite the Bus Station."
    I'm thinking to myself, "Now I can eat those ****ing Rowntree's Randoms like a boss"

    *May not have happend.

    There, FYP for a PC audience.


  • #30
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    EGAR wrote: »
    Yuck, gelatin is used in the making which is derived from the insides of animal skins and bones. Eww

    Yeah... and eggs are a hens period.
    Whatcha gonna do?


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  • #31
    jayteecork
    Site Banned Posts: 5,676 ✭✭✭jayteecork


    EGAR wrote: »
    Yuck, gelatin is used in the making which is derived from the insides of animal skins and bones. Eww

    Well if the animals are being slaughtered for their meat and hides there's very little point not using whatever else the poor animal has to offer.


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