Thanksgiving wouldn’t smell the same without Bell’s Seasoning, a fragrant blend of herbs and spices that’s rubbed onto birds, mixed into stuffing or stirred into gravy in millions of American homes.
But did you know this holiday staple - sold in the familiar yellow box with the oddly colored blue turkey logo - is made here in Massachusetts? In a small Weymouth industrial park, a mere 30 minutes from the site of the first feast in 1621.
The William G. Bell Co. began making Bell’s Seasoning in Revere in 1867, originally as a spice blend for homemade sausage. Back then, the herbs were ground in a tidal mill near Revere Beach and packaged in a State Street warehouse in downtown Boston.
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