Brockles Restaurant and Special Dressing

Remembering my Brockles Family, Restaurant, and Dressing

Name the Dressings

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Although the Special Dressing was the signature product, Brockles Food Company produced a number of dressings that were distributed in North Texas in those days.  I’m sure I can’t remember them all, but that’s what this post is about.  I’ll name the ones I remember off the top of my head and you can remind me of the others via the comments. :-)

Let’s see.  There was the Brockles French Dressing, which actually caused quite a bit of excitement in the family one year when it outsold Kraft French Dressing in the Dallas market.  I can’t remember the year, I was a kid, but I remember the whoopla. 

In no particular order, the company also made a Thousand Island dressing, a Roquefort dressing, and later produced Creamy Italian, Ranch, and Blue-Cheese dressings. 

We also produced a Tartar Sauce and a Cocktail Sauce.  In retrospect, that’s a fairly impressive line of dressings and sauces for a little independent manufacturer.label-creamy-ital-small.jpg

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Written by Jim

October 16, 2007 at 6:41 am

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  1. When I worked at Brockles Jr. in Canton Texas, I remember the signature Special dressing, the Thousand island, Blue Cheese, and French. Sophie used to thin the Thousand with a little milk and the Blue Cheese and the Special with buttermilk. I don’t remember her ever thinning down the French.

    Alice (Woods) Smith

    November 8, 2007 at 3:48 pm

  2. If I remember correctly, there was also a Poppyseed Dressing. It was a creamy poppyseed dressing served by Pizza Inn at their salad bars. I don’t know if it had the Brockles brand on it or the Pizza Inn brand, but I think they sold it retail, too. Maybe somebody could shed more light on this. Also, I remember the Foods Company doing business as far away as Peru. Let’s get the elders to add specifics to these vague memories of mine. I was just a kid.
    :-)

    Mike Ellis

    November 28, 2007 at 10:47 am

  3. I know that Brockles developed a creamy white dressing for Pizza Inn — maybe it was poppyseed. I remember seeing it. This was pre-1970. Brockles may have made it for them for a while. But it had a Pizza Inn label on it and they eventually produced it themselves.

    Jim

    June 11, 2008 at 9:54 am


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