Talk:Vlasic Pickles

message: He was from Yugoslavia. Probably Bosnia. Croat. Nothing to do with Poland. It's a Polish style pickle, there are more Polish people, it was thought as a better idea to just lump him together with Poles. But facts are facts. Read South Slavs in Michigan. His wife Marie Messinger could have told you the truth, she lived to a very old age. In the 1940 Census, he is listed as Yugoslav. Etc. You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes, just a minimum of digging and you find this out. 
Franjo Vlasic was born in Bosnia to mother Iva Badrov daughter of Josip < son of Ilija Joza Matic, etc. All Croat/Serb whatever surnames, completely Yugoslav, no connection to Poland.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.241.89 (talk) 20:25, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: NOT Polish, 100% Croatian

message: Reads like a Horatio Alger story. Not encyclopedic in tone, plays to sentimentality, uses phrases like "saving every dime". Owen 23:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: Shouldn't the "Croatian" be changed to "Polish" ? This is what is on the official Vlasic site. -em
The website states, "...Polish immigrant family..." but this doesn't necessarily mean that they cannot be of Croatian descent.ZYXW9876 (talk) 18:58, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Some info here too. If his name was Franjo... I've never heard of a Pole with that name. 
Over the past 70 years the Vlasic name has become synonymous with Polish-style dill pickles. However, the company was founded by a Croatian immigrant in Detroit in the 1920s. Franjo Vlasic began with a creamery in Detroit that eventually grew to be the state’s largest wholesale milk distributorship. As the company grew, it added hams and pickles for the city’s polish community. --Rovoobo Talk 08:49, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Croatian vs Polish

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message: This guy here describes how Vlasic went bankrupt due to predatory business practices by Wal-Mart: 
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=985485&cid=25255983
True?
Whoops, actually he gives his source: 
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3046wal-mart_pricing.html
I'm not sure I trust that site.
Here is a more reputable source for the bankruptcy in Jan. 2001:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html?page=0%2C1
Indigest (talk) 11:55, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Wal-Mart

message: Do Ya'll sell pickle juice only? 68.51.244.243 (talk) 06:58, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do y'all sell pickle juice only? 

message: Is his name related to Vlašić (Bosnian mountain)? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 01:19, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Vlašić is ultimately derived from the Croatian word Vlah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlach 49.194.121.112 (talk) 12:17, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Vlašić (Bosnian mountain)]]