Given the adage likening anything distasteful to watching sausage being made, there's probably something funny to say about no longer being able to see sausage production at Maglio Fresh Foods in South Philadelphia.
But nobody's laughing at Third Street and Pattison Avenue. Not the owners. And certainly not the employees – 70 at the company's peak in 1989 – who lost their jobs when the third-generation company outsourced manufacturing and packaging to North Jersey seven months ago.
It was a do-or-die situation, said Anthony L. Maglio, 72, co-owner and vice president, whose late father, Lou, was a brother of the company's founder.
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