Susanna

My dad was never what you’d call a connoisseur. He loved beef tongue, Limburger, liver and onions, head cheese, and pickled eggs. He thought boiled hot dogs, instant mashed potatoes and canned cream corn was an excellent meal. But we did share one foodie passion: Morrison Scottish Meat Pies. Morrison made lightly spiced pork pies here since 1883, before Utah was a state. That’s longer than Campbell’s has made soup; longer than Heinz has made ketchup. I bought their meat pies in the freezer section at Harmon’s or Pirate O’s until they simply disappeared. I did a little sleuthing and found the company’s owner had taken out a large expansion loan to accommodate a growing South Korea market. He expected to be repaid by the Utah Pork Producers Association, but the money never came. Instead, the director of the UPPA was charged with pocketing the cash. After 133 years, Morrison’s simply folded. Daddy would have been so disappointed.