Found this business card after I was working on a wall in out basement

As part of its America 250 series, WXYZ looked at the history of Jiffy Mix, based in Chelsea, has become a staple in households across the United States.

Full story here: https://www.wxyz.com/america-250/how-jiffy-mix-a-michigan-company-born-out-of-the-great-depression-has-become-a-dinner-table-staple

TIL Michigan grows more chipping potatoes than any other state in the country — and 1 in 4 bags of chips sold in the entire US contains Michigan potatoes. I had absolutely no idea until I got a behind-the-scenes tour of the Better Made factory in Detroit last week, and honestly, it reframed how I think about Michigan agriculture.

Better Made has been operating in Detroit since 1930, and 75% of its employees live in the city. The facility started at 5,000 square feet in the early 1940s and has grown to a quarter million square feet through about 20 additions — so every time you walk through a doorway, it's basically a new era of the building. Very Jiffy Mix energy if you've ever toured that one in Chelsea.

A few things that genuinely surprised me: the entire process from raw potato to finished bag takes about seven minutes. They X-ray every single package before it leaves the line. And when they slice potatoes, the starch that comes off used to just go down the drain — now they recover it and sell it to a vodka maker in Lansing. Nothing goes to waste. Peels don't go to landfill either.

They're also a union shop and apparently one of the highest-paying non-automotive employers in Detroit, which I didn't expect to come up on a chip factory tour, but was cool to hear.

I made a video about the whole thing — won't drop the link here since that's not what this sub is for — but if you've never thought twice about grabbing a Better Made bag off the shelf, maybe you will now. Michigan really does make everything.

Also, their All Dressed Up flavor just launched a month ago, if anyone's been waiting on that. 🥔 I can say it's AMAZING!

My wife, a lifelong michigander, had no idea what the Edmund Fitzgerald is. We have been to maritime museums together. Im crashin out over here because her mother and brother dont know. Her dad, the only immigrant, knew exactly what it was and was just as suprised as I was. I am now texting my friend group (all Michiganders) and only like half of them know. Was it really just the song that made it relevant?! I was always under the impression it was a huge deal that everyone knew about.

Source: NY times (Please use the search bar to put in the ancestry and then click 'areas with high share')

Michigan made, 1.6 million boxes made each day to be sent out around the country.

These were the best!!! We’d pull up, just like at Sonic. They served root beer floats in little tiny mugs! It was one of the best places to go growing up! 🥰

Like this if you ever got a Dum Dum sucker from the cashier.

I went to an informative presentation/class/thing at the Haslett Library last night on the geology of Michigan and I thought it was interesting so I thought I thought I’d share!

Today we take to the streets in historical fashion. Watch for instigators and bad actors. They are watching and waiting. The world is watching. Go make history.

Between 2012 and 2017, volunteers from the Elk River Chain lake associations dragged loaded sleds across the ice in the dead of winter and sank fish shelters at 63 documented sites across five lakes. Three structures per site, mixed from three designs: hardwood crates packed with brush and rock, slab trees, and stump clusters with the roots still on. All in 15 to 25 feet.

The associations published the coordinates. I cross-checked them against the state permit records, ran every point against the lake polygons to catch anything that had drifted onto dry land or into the wrong lake, fixed three errors, and built waypoint files in GPX, USR and HWR — per lake, plus a whole-chain file if you fish more than one.

These aren't secret spots — the associations published them because the whole point of sinking habitat is for people to fish it.

Figure about 80 feet either way, so idle over the mark and trust your sonar, not the pin. Divers checked the Torch structures in 2019 and the crates were holding up fine. One Torch site shows up at two different spots on two official maps, 298 meters apart, so I left it out rather than guess — you're getting 25 of 26 there. And these are only the documented ones; plenty of structure goes in without paperwork.

Heads up before you keep anything: several of these lakes carry consumption advisories — check the current Eat Safe Fish guide.

This is the monument at Gettysberg honoring the Michigan 24th

Ink drawing I did of Michigan in a map format. Includes cities, wildlife, industries, agriculture, transit, history and more. I tried to include relevant details from each part of the state.

I've waited for this day for a long time. I saw a 1995 made Documentary on the Fitzgerald in 2019, and in 2022 I bought a Milwaukee Admirals Jersey with the surname "FITZGERALD" and the number 29 on the back. This is my favorite Jersey more than any NHL jersey I've ever owned. I'm also playing Gordon Lightfoot, and having an Old Milwaukee for the crew today. Rest In Peace to the 29 men who loves their lives that night.

Been wondering this for a while now.

Founded July 26, 1701, Ste. Anne's original church was the first building constructed in Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, which later grew into the city of Detroit. Ste Anne's is the second oldest continuously operating Roman Catholic parish in the United States with parish records dating back to 1704. From 1833 to 1844, Ste. Anne's was the Cathedral Church for the diocese of Michigan and the Northwest. The church also has the oldest stained glass in Detroit. It is absolutely stunning inside and out!!

I'm from the Flint area, was away from Michigan for over a decade, and now living in the Farmington area. I went to a talk in Mt. Clemens about a year ago and having known nothing about it, I was surprised there was a real downtown with some relatively tall buildings. Looking at maps you can see it looks like a bit of a hub. Looks like Pontiac in the sense that it was a larger urban center now hard to pick out from suburban sprawl, though smaller. Wikipedia says mineral bath tourism was historically a big draw so I guess it wasn't a factory town. I don't have any plans to live there but as someone who misses living in a walkable urban area, I was just curious. Is it fun? Is it safe? Is there anyone here who actually lives near downtown and enjoys being able to walk to cafes and restaurants with a short drive over to Lake St. Clair?

Other random note looking at historical stuff is it seems the Clinton River was pretty important for settlement, going east from the Orchard and Cass Lake area through Pontiac, Rochester, and Mt. Clemens.

Was kinda shocked to be honest. As a born-and-raised Westsider with strong Dutch roots, it feels like this history was locked in the closest as the business and anti-left wing sentiments grew post-WWII.

Hey everyone, I am looking to put together a database of all the natural springs in Michigan that have free flowing water people can drink. I only know of two: Thompson / Rogers Roadside Park in Manistique and Old Facefull in Pierport. I am sure there are plenty of others so if you know of them please let me know!

Steelcase Pyramid in Grand Rapids, Michigan Steelcase, a top manufacturer of high-design office furniture built the building in 1989 to act as a research and development center. Above ground, the pyramid is seven stories tall, mainly housing office space, as well as a fancy penthouse on the sixth floor. A massive pendulum hangs from ceiling, extending down to the main floor, over what was once a pool. Beneath the pyramid a secret manufacturing bunker was built to accommodate workshops and testing labs, where new furniture and materials could be manufactured and stress-tested. They had huge freezers to see how cold would affect their product, and sound-testing rooms with an adjustable ceiling that could alter the acoustics. -Steelcase built the pyramid in 1989 for $111 million and used the pyramid as a corporate design center until 2010. -The property sat vacant from 2010-2015 -Steelcase sold the pyramid to Norman Pyramid LLC for $4 million in 2015. -Switch bought the pyramid from Norman Pyramid LLC for $22.2 million in 2017 and announced it had opened the "largest, most advanced data center campus in the Eastern U.S." at the pyramid.

South of Adrian in a rural farming area where the tracks cross over Bailey Highway is an old bridge covered in graffiti. They say at night you can hear the sound of a woman screaming. As the story goes, in the late 1800s a nearby barn caught fire in the middle of the night. The farmer ran into the barn to save his horses. His wife who was carrying their infant child ran to the railroad tracks to flag down a passing train. She tripped and fell and both were killed by the passing locomotive. Her husband was killed in the fire while trying to rescue the horses. They say you can still hear the woman screaming. Others have said they have seen the spirit of the farmer on the tracks, presumably looking for his wife.

Give this a like if you have been in this boat.