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Big thanks to everyone who joined us today for our 40th Annual Dogmeat Feed hosted by the Perkins Quality Assurance Lab! Current employees, retired legends, former colleagues, industry pals, and cherished friends together again under one roof to kick off the holiday season! #TeichertFamilyofCompanies #BuildingTrustTradition As the story goes.... the Dogmeat Feed gathering has roots in Teichert's history dating back to the early 1980s when employees first assembled with colleagues to celebrate Christmas with a potluck lunch in the Quality Assurance building at the Perkins Plant. Some of the organizers of the event included Mady Moll, Jack Crouse, Jim Fox, Jim Espinola and Mel Chorich. It can be a gamble to indulge in the food that arrives from someone's kitchen at a potluck gathering and it's from the Chorich home and flavorful heritage this event derived its name. Mel Chorich was born and raised on a couple acres in a house in Perkins (the house was next door to where Home Depot now sits on Folsom Blvd near Howe Avenue in Sacramento, CA). With their own traditions born of their Yugoslavian origins, Mel's father would sometimes roast goat on an outside spit. Evidently, a skinned goat somewhat resembles a dog, at least to kids in the 1920s-1930s, so Mel would sometimes be called a "dog eater." For his potluck dishes, Mel would always bring a kielbasa type of sausage that he bought from a friend of his, John Lasich, who was a Yugoslavian butcher located in Plymouth. He always joked that he was bringing his "dog meat" to lunch. Somehow the lunch was "christened" the "Dogmeat Lunch." The tasty sausage made by John Lasich was a staple of the feed until approximately 2000 when he closed his shop. From a gathering of a dozen or so employees nearly 40 years ago to the event it has become today, retirees, employees, past employees, vendors and business associates look forward to celebrating and gathering each year in early December.