Made in America: Memorial Day

While you celebrate this Memorial Day weekend in honor of those who have died defending our country, check out the made-in-America food-and-drink guide our friends at the AFL-CIO created for the occasion. 

The Campus Progress team be closed for the three-day weekend, and we hope you enjoy your time kicking off the summer and grilling season. Check back with us on Tuesday for more coverage on some of the most pressing issues young people face today. Until then, here's a list of union-made foods and drinks to help you plan your barbecue. 

Hot Dogs, Sausages, Other Grill Meats

• Ball Park, Boar’s Head
• Calumet, Dearborn Sausage Co.
• Fischer Meats
• Hebrew National
• Hofmann
• Johnsonville
• Oscar Mayer
• See MORE

Condiments

• French’s Mustard
• Guldens Mustard
• Heinz Catsup
• Heinz Ketchup
• Hidden Valley Ranch
• Lucky Whip
• Vlasic
• SeeMORE

Buns and Bread

• Ottenbergs
• Sara Lee
• Vie de France Bakery
• See MORE

Sodas and Bottled Water

• Bart's
• Coke
• Diet Sprite
• Pepsi
• American Springs
• Pocono Northern Fall's
• Poland Spring
• See MORE

• Budweiser
• Bud Light
• Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve
• Mad River, Michelob
• Miller
• Rolling Rock
• See MORE

Snacks and Dessert

• Breyers Ice Cream
• Flips Pretzels
• Frito-Lay Chips
• Good Humor Ice Cream
• See MORE snacks and MORE sweets

This list comes courtesy of Union Plus, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor's LA Labor 411's website. You can find these and other union-made products on your smart phone with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Buy Union app.

Check back with the AFL-CIO on Monday for more on Memorial Day by Jimmy Gilbert, director of the AFL-CIO’s Union Veterans Council.

Lydia is the Journalism Network Associate with Campus Progress.

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