Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff to the summer holiday season. While the day honors those who have given their lives defending the nation the weekend also marks the start of grilling season.

Here’s some union-made food and drink to get your barbecue off to a great start:

Hot Dogs, Sausages, Other Grill Meats

• Ball Park
• Boar’s Head
• Calumet
• Dearborn Sausage Co.
• Fischer Meats
• Hebrew National
• Hofmann
• Johnsonville
• Oscar Mayer

Condiments

• French’s Mustard
• Guldens Mustard
• Heinz Ketchup
• Hidden Valley Ranch
• Lucky Whip
• Vlasic

Buns and Bread

• Ottenberg’s
• Sara Lee
• Vie de France Bakery

Bottled Water

• American Springs
• Pocono Springs
• Poland Spring

Beer

• Budweiser
• Bud Light
• Leinenkugel’s
• Mad River
• Michelob
• Miller
• Rolling Rock

See more from Union Plus.

Ice Cream and Frozen Treats 

• • Del Monte Fruit Chillers
• • Breyers
• • Carvel
• • Good Humor
• • Hiland Dairy
• • Labelle Ice Cream
• • Laura Secord
• • MacArthur
• • Orchard Harvest
• • Prairie Farms
• • President’s Choice

Snacks 

• Flips Pretzels,
• Frito-Lay Chips
• Oreos
• Triscuits
• Wheat Thins

Our list comes courtesy of Union Plus, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM), the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor’s website Labor 411.