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Professor's barbecue sauce goes commercial

Merrill Zorn proudly sells Professor Becker’s Barbecue Sauce

Photo credit: Barry Sloan | Merrill Zorn proudly sells Professor Becker’s Barbecue Sauce at the family’s business, Zorn’s Poultry Farms in Bethpage. The sauce was created by the late Farmingdale State College educator, Walter G. Becker. (June 12, 2012)

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Professor Walter G. Becker's Barbecue Sauce, cooked up 40 years ago by the beloved veteran teacher at what is now Farmingdale State College and consumed for decades only at alumni gatherings, has gone commercial.

Getting food products on supermarket shelves is never easy, but the BBQ sauce invented by Becker, who taught at the college's Poultry Science Department -- long since discontinued...

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