Jimmy Dean

(Newser) - Check your freezer for 23.4-oz. packages of Jimmy Dean's "Heat 'n Serve" sausages, recalled over an apparent risk of metal fragments. The Monday announcement from the Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service refers to five customer complaints of metal pieces in the frozen...

(Newser) - Tyson Foods has won the bidding war to buy Hillshire Brands, topping an offer from rival Pilgrim's Pride by almost a billion dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tyson will pay $63 a share in cash for Hillshire, which makes Jimmy Dean sausages and Ball Park franks, among other...

(Newser) - The late Jimmy Dean was a Grammy-winning country singer who even did a little acting, but he’ll probably be most remembered for his sometimes-awful line of breakfast products. Max Read rounds up the grossest of the gross on Gawker :

• Pancakes and Sausage on a Stick: This is already “

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(Newser) - Jimmy Dean, a country musician and entrepreneur who made it into the Country Music Hall of Fame, died yesterday at the age of 81. Dean found music-industry success in 1961 with his hit "Big Bad John," which sold millions and earned him a Grammy in 1962. Dean would...