Hickory Farms is an American specialty foods company. The company was established in 1951 when founder Richard Ransom began selling hand cut cheese at local fairs. By 1959, the company added summer sausage and opened their first retail store outside Toledo, Ohio. Today they specialize in food gift boxes and baskets comprised of summer sausage, cheese, fruit, nuts, and sweets.
Once composed of more than 550 shopping mall-based stores in the United States and Canada, the company now does multichannel marketing, offering their products year round at club stores, mass merchandisers, and supermarkets, as well as through catalogs and their website. During the holiday season, they operate shopping mall kiosks as well.
Brian sells smoked meat logs at a Hickory Farms outlet in "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows". A passerby mistakes his free sample pitch as a sexual advance.