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Reported by: Associated Press
Last Update: 12/18 3:49 am
No, it's not Pizza Street -- but it smelled like it.
Road crews in a Des Moines, Iowa, suburb used garlic salt to melt snow and ice after a storm this week.
The spicy road treatment was donated by Tone Brothers, a company headquartered in the area.
The spice company says the nine tons of garlic salt would have ended up in a landfill.
Public Works Administrator Al Olson the says the city mixed the garlic salt with regular road salt and it works just fine.
He adds some members of the road crew said using the spicy mixture made them a little hungry.
From the
DeMoines RegisterStory of garlic salt on Ankeny's roads is national hit GUNNAR OLSON • REGISTER STAFF WRITER • December 19, 2008
That Ankeny’s road crews were sprinkling the streets with smelly, expired garlic salt that was donated to the city instead of dumped in a landfill was too much for media to resist.
The story with a simple moral and a funny twist has been carried by major newspapers and bantered about on television and radio stations coast to coast, ever since word got out that Tone’s Spices of Ankeny donated nine tons of garlic salt to be used on city streets, not on your neighbor’s mashed potatoes.
Public Works Administrator Al Olson has been a popular guy, giving six or seven interviews that have picked up nationally.
“It’s crazy – just crazy,” Olson said, recalling the friends and family who have heard his interviews in New York, Texas and California. “It’s been such a feel-good thing. It’s amazing the different takes the news stations have had around the country. … Some of them are just hilarious.”
The list of media to carry the story includes USA Today, The Los Angles Times, “Good Morning America” and National Public Radio.
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