[CH] Corrected Spelling
Blake Olson (blakeo@flash.net)
Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:59:47 -0600
I just pulled my bottle of Gebhardt Chili Powder out of the cabinet.
It is old enough to be from before Hunt-Wesson bought them out and with
a price tag of $1.29. It was, indeed, made in San Antonio at that time
but I have no idea if that is still the case. The spelling was Gebhardt,
i.e, without the 's' on the end.
Campbell Soup came in here a couple of years ago and bought out Pace
Picante Sauce. They waited a year or so and then moved operations
completely out of San Antonio. It went to someplace in north Texas
where they don't have a clue what a good hot sauce is supposed to taste
like.
Success had hurt Pace anyway and I had stopped buying their stuff.
They had achieved such wide distribution that they had made some
adjustments in their recipes and some of the local store brands tasted
better. We have four or five manufacturers of hot sauces and picante
sauces in the area. The competition is especially tough here because
there are a huge number of local cafés that make their own hot sauces
and pico de gallo mixtures.
Some of those are truly wonderful. I have to be really careful when
going to Ernesto's here because the temptation is to to fill up on the
tostadas and tomatillo-based hot sauce.
Blake in San Antonio