Fray Bentos, Uruguay Travel Blogs

Fray Bentos
Jan 8, 2007

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Montevideo, Colonia and Fray Bentos
Jan 8, 2007 (14 photos)

... seat, under the shade of a Patricia sun-umbrella. Meat Pies in the Original Fray Bentos Our last stop in Uruguay is Fray Bentos. That's right! all you pie loving Brits out there, there really is a place called Fray Bentos and yes, it ...

Old Time Town
Nov 25, 2004

All you can do is step back in time. So that`s what I did in the less than flourishing town of Fray Bentos. Frigorifico Having heard from a guy on a bus that the old meat extraction plant at Fray Bentos was an interesting tour, I put it on my list of ...

The Liebig Extract of Meat Factory
May 26, 2008

... our book is about 20 pages long, but one thing they mention in it is the Extract of Meat Factory and museum in Fray Bentos, as a bizarre and interesting experience. It was pretty bizarre and interesting, the town was a nice little place, i dont think ...

Fray Bentos; that sounds familiar!
Nov 25, 2009 (48 photos)

We were really surprised to find a place in Uruguay called Fray Bentos (and I bet we weren't the first - or last!) We thought it merited a visit and some research. The town did, indeed give its name to the Fray Bentos products including corned beef and the ...

Fray Bentos
Jun 13, 2005 (8 photos)

Day 226 Monday 13/06/05 Colonia - Fray Bentos We wandered through Colonia in the morning and sadly it has turned cold and dull. It´s not as nice to wander through in this weather :( We had a Mexican lunch (told you there were some interesting ...

Uruguay
May 18, 2009 (16 photos)

... it left at 7am and 3.30pm so had to kill a few hours in a pretty but boring town. Eventually we made it to Fray Bentos, again after dark, stayed at the Hotel Colonial a good 10 block walk uphill from the bus station. We noticed that everyone in Uruguay ...

Packing Meat
Apr 2, 2007 (9 photos)

Stopped off in Fray Bentos for the day. Home of corned beef and would you believe it, OXO cubes. Being british, I allowed myself the eccentricity of visiting the old slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant here. The word odd springs to mind. Plus Í ...

Fray Bentos
Aug 17, 2009 (19 photos)

... to produce the first “cubes” so well known today. Around 1910 they also started to use the brand name “Fray Bentos” which is still used today, although the goods are made in either Argentina, Brazil or Paraguay. In 1920 the company ...

Who ate all the pies?
Sep 26, 2007 (11 photos)

I decided to leave Uruguay via the Fray Bentos / Gualeguaychú  border point...only to get to Fray Bentos to discover that the border point there has been closed for 10 months!  I had to get a bus 2 hours north to the next border point... ...

Who ate all the pies?!
Jun 11, 2006

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