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Slim Jim is an American brand of jerky snacks or dried sausage sold globally and manufactured by ConAgra Foods, the food conglomerate based in Chicago. They are widely popular in the United States. About 500 million are produced annually in at least 21 varieties. The Slim Jim itself has been transformed in the years since Adolph Levis invented it in 1929. He later sold the company in 1967 for about 20 million dollars to General Mills, who moved the operations to Raleigh, N.C., and merged them into other meatpacking operations that it renamed Goodmark Foods. He sold Goodmark in 1982 to a group led by Ron Doggett. ConAgra bought Goodmark in 1998.
The product Levis created is different from the one known today, with Lon Adams developing the current Slim Jim recipe while working for Goodmark. Slim Jim is one example of a food product which is listed as containing mechanically separated chicken in its ingredients by requirement of the USDA.
Production was interrupted after an explosion and fire on June 17, 2008, destroyed the packaging operations of the formerly sole Garner, North Carolina, manufacturing facility, but has since resumed there and in Troy, Ohio.
On May 21, 2010 the facility in Garner, N.C., closed, the same day that the company´s former spokesman "Macho Man" Randy Savage died.
Slim Jim may refer to:
A slim jim (more technically known as a lockout tool) is a thin strip of metal (usually spring steel) roughly long and about wide originally marketed under that name by HPC Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of specialty locksmithing tools. Slim Jims are used to unlock automobile doors without use of a key or lock pick. It acts directly on the levers and interconnecting rods that operate the door, completely avoiding the complexity of dealing with the lock mechanism itself. The hooked end of the tool is slipped between a car's window and the rubber seal, catching the rods that connect to the lock mechanism. With careful manipulation, the door can be opened.
Unskilled use of the tool will often detach the lock rods, leaving the lock inoperable even with the key. This is often a clue that someone has attempted to break into a car. Newer cars have also incorporated internal defenses against this tool such as barrier blocks on the bottom of the window, preventing entry, and also shrouding the operating rods and the lock cylinder to prevent manipulation of internal linkages. Others have designed the operating rods to be easily disconnected when engaged with a lateral force – as is often created by the lifting action of the tool.
It has been reported that in modern vehicles there is a chance for setting off the side airbag deployment system of the vehicle, possibly causing injury to a person attempting to use a slim jim. However, according to research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, this has not been verified and manufacturers state it is impossible. An episode of MythBusters showed experimenters that were also unable to deploy an airbag with a slim jim.
Usage examples of "slim jim".
And this piece of ass Slim Jim had here on his arm, the fabulous Norma—.
Snuffy went through a few complicated contortions to regain his feet, wavered unsteadily for a moment, then wove back into the store to sign up for another six-pack of tallboys, some Slim Jim sausages, and a package of roasted pinon nuts.
There was some empty Slim Jim wrappers on the dashboard and Tad's Thermos bottle, smelling of sour milk.