It seems that now the MinuteKlan have decided to go into the food industry to peddle their racist views.
Minuteman Salsa is proud to be America’s 100% US-born and bred Southwestern salsa.
You don’t support illegal immigration. Buy Minuteman Salsa and keep foreign-made salsa from slipping across the border into your pantry.
A portion of the proceeds of every sale of Minuteman Salsa will benefit the courageous men and women of the Minuteman Project, guarding America’s borders.
I am sorry I am just too fucking pissed off to write clearly. I might add some more after I clear my head.
THIS BULLSHIT NEEDS TO STOP!!! NOW!!!!
the sheer… the utter… I’m pissed off too.
Take care of yourself, Xicanopwr… your loved ones need as do we all.
“I am just too fucking pissed off to write clearly”
You’re in good company, Xicano Pwr. If I hadn’t seen your name as the diarist, I would have assumed this came from the keyboard of Bood Abides, as a piece of satire. It’s just too effing unbelievable to even grasp.
A lot of this crap you would think has is Dood..spoof, just like the DSCC crap the last few days.
The logo should read “minuteman salsa…please purchase because our boss stole a million dollars from us.”
Back to Reality: It is obivous they have a third-party making their salsa for them. Has anyone thought about hunting down their third-party manufacture. Because more likely than not, they 3rd party manf. makes some other brands of salsa we would no longer want to purchase.
Good afternoon, afl –
I had the same thoughts about checking into the manufacturer, but I came up a bit empty-handed. Apparently, the “mastermind” behind the venture is an entrepreneur by the name of Ryan Lambert, and the product is manufactured by a (nameless) company in San Antonio. (The one upside is that I didn’t find any articles that came out in support of the product, and even the Minutemen/women themselves – bless their hearts – are somewhat torn about it…well…the commerce side of it, that is…sigh…) Heaven forbid that someone would consider the human part of the equation.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_4144401
You think there would have to be some USDA label or form from the manufacture to the USDA stating what “labels” or “branding” of product their food processing plant is producing. ???
1S2Y KER: Those codes appear on the above jar..I wonder if those are traceable to a manufacture, in case of a recall is necessary?? Anyone a smarter than me who knows what those letters mean??
This is crazy!
From their site: At Minuteman Salsa, American citizens are proud to make America’s Patriotic Salsa. We don’t rely on illegal workers, foreign factories, or crops grown south of the border.
it’s only going to get worse, and candidates in both parties will try to capitalize on such appeals.
I noticed the “Patriot” has one foot in Mexico, why am I not surprised?
This would sound like satire, except it’s obviously not….
And they don’t even see the irony in putting their label on a jar of salsal… as opposed to, say, calling it “South-western Style Tomato Relish” or “Freedom Sauce”?
To this mid-Atlantic seaboard gal, that seems on the same level of ridiculous idiocy as anti-Asian groups selling their own brand of… oh, soy sauce or ramen noodles. Or the old guy from Baltimore I met once doing jury duty, who insisted he only ate Real American Food… you know, like schweitzer cheese.
(I never even heard of salsa until twenty-some years ago — now it’s as common at parties as onion dip. Another example of how American culture naturally adapts and changes, adopting new tastes and styles from new waves of immigrants… which is AS IT SHOULD BE, dammit!)
They’re stupid, too, desperate marketing via suggestion that a legally imported product is illegal. They even divide e-mail postings between “Pro Illegal Salsa” and “Pro American Salsa.” Convince them rocotos are better & cheaper than serranos and they’ll disappear even faster. My bet’s on 6 months.
hahaha…. somebody said the same 6 months thing too at a forum.
I have come to realize, there is nothing to say because I found this quote and it says it all. It is short and sweet and straight to the point.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin