On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:44:02 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons wrote:

> On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 4:19:36 PM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> I'd offer to send you some of yours or the others, but shipping
>> prices are such a rip-off these days for the home one-off shipper I
>> don't even send my mother or brother anything (even though I have
>> several boxes packed and ready to go!).
>>
>> But if you have a billing account/shipper # that gets good rates,
>> just say the word. I'd even pay for the products myself, but not for
>> the shipping. Shipping costs at those retail shipping stores cost
>> 10x-12X more than shipping stuff from a company or corporation with
>> very low-cast negotiated rates(*). This Homey don't play those games
>> (with his wallet).
>>
>> (*) And yet Amazon is still marking-up your salsa 7X the cost and
>> has no physical retail overhead.
>>
> H-E-B has suspended ship-to-home. I ordered once from them when
> they ran a free shipping w/ (IIRC $50) purchase.

Yeah, that was a good deal. I think Julie also partook of that deal,
as did I (and I only live a few miles away).

> I got a bunch of bottles
> of Del Primo green, a few bottles of their red, and topped up the
> minimum purchase with cans of store brand refried beans. Like you
> stated, their refried beans are what refried beans should be.

The refried beans I'm referring to a

https://www.heb.com/product-detail/m...-beans/1705165

They're refrigerated. For canned refried beans, I use Gebhardt's.

https://www.heb.com/product-detail/g...d-beans/139520
(which also contain lard)

But these are the Butts best bean product:

https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h...-beans/1600759

> I made some pretty respectable salsa this afternoon. I boiled tomatillos,
> blackened some serranos, and zizzed it in the blender with a clove of
> garlic, an onion, some fresh-squeezed lemon juice and a little salt. I
> never get the proportions perfect because I'm not Mexican.

I'll fully document my final version of my creamy roasted Jalapeno
salsa within the nest week. I've posted other premature variations
of it starting 3 years ago, and now it's finally muchas perfectco
(no, I don't speak Spanish).

-sw