Topic: Penzey's spices

[LadyVirginia]

I borrowed a cookbook from the library last week and the author mentioned buying many of her spices from Penzey's. So I went to their website because I'm always interested in finding new things to cook with. I clicked on the pdf link for their latest catalog and discovered the owner's letter. After I read it I decided that Penzey's won't get my money. I highlighted the key points.

This issue we spotlight Waukesha, Wisconsin and its rebirth as a place of kindness.
This catalog is one of our Great Milwaukee issues, a four-times-a-year special issue
we usually send only to our customers in Wisconsin. With the tremendous hope we
found in the stories of the people of Waukesha, we thought we would share it with
all our customers across the country. I really think this is one of our best catalogs
yet. I hope you enjoy it.

In the Great Milwaukee catalogs we celebrate the strengths of the greater
Milwaukee area that is our home and we also work towards healing its challenges.
Our greatest strength is the incredible kindness with roots that go so deep and
stretch back so far into our history here. Our greatest challenge is that for all the
goodness we share we are still so very divided, by many measures we are the most
segregated region in the entire country. It’s a pattern that comes from a time
before most of us were born. It is the hand we’ve been dealt, but the cards are
most certainly not the ones we want to hold.

In many ways it was our kindness that set this all in motion. Through the 1950s
Milwaukee’s government was pretty much the most progressive in the country. At
a time when other communities were putting up barriers to diversity, Milwaukee’s
leaders thought the right thing to do was to allow it in. And it was the right thing
to do and is a huge part of why Milwaukee is being discovered today by so many
for the treasure it is. But it was a move ahead of its time. Many embraced the
change. Many others were not ready for it and fled west to Waukesha and
Milwaukee’s surrounding suburbs.

Almost overnight, Waukesha, a place famous across the country for its abolitionist
roots, became overwhelmed and home to a very different way of thinking. For
decades, defending this flight has been key to political success in southeastern
Wisconsin. Even today the governor’s continued defunding of inner city schools,
the congressman’s talk of bell curves and lack of effort on the part of those who
live in the city, and the legislature’s talk of secession and its new deeply disturbing
law defending the use of Native American mascots are all about getting votes in
Waukesha, and places like it. I would like to think that, in their hearts, none of these
people feel good about sending the message that America is only for some people,
not others. To them I think it is just the price of politics. But all of this is finally
changing for the better. With Waukesha returning to its roots, these race-based
politics are rapidly becoming more expensive than anyone wanting a political
future can afford.

I’ve worked in Waukesha for over 20 years now and, yes, when I first arrived it really
was what is was. But over those years, especially in this last five or six, a very real,
very positive change has happened. As we reached out to our area customers for
stories of the new Waukesha we were overwhelmed with the kindness they shared
with us. Awesome people, awesome place. So here we go Great people trying the
best they can to make a difference and put things right in ways both big and small.
And when you have people who pay attention, people who understand the good
things set in motion by creating happiness in those around them, great recipes are
always right at the heart of the story. Cooks really do create a better future for us all.

I showed it to my daughter and she said "you know you probably would have ordered from them if he'd kept his opinion to himself." I'm sure the owner would be happy not to have me as a customer. From what I understand WI is doing very well under Walker's changes. The schools that followed Walker's reforms are doing well whereas districts like Milwaukee that elected to not follow are still suffering the effects of deficits. Maybe the reason Waukesha and other WI places are doing so well isn't because Penzey's and others are being nice; perhaps it's because the citizens of WI are not feeling as financially strapped as they did in recent years.

[Pandora]

"Race based politics"?  Good grief.  Why can't these people just dry up and blow away.

LV, you might peruse http://www.myspicesage.com/            They come out of NY, which doesn't leave me thinking they're any less "progressive" than Pensey's Penzey's, but I haven't seen 'em advertise it.  (I bought sugar.)

/Had to fix it, it was bugging me.

[LadyVirginia]

"Race based politics"?  Good grief.  Why can't these people just dry up and blow away.

LV, you might peruse http://www.myspicesage.com/            They come out of NY, which doesn't leave me thinking they're any less "progressive" than Pensey's, but I haven't seen 'em advertise it.  (I bought sugar.)

Thanks, Pan. I'll check them out.

[Libertas]

Isn't Waukesha also where the demented 12 years olds tried to slay their friend to please Slenderman?

That's progressive for ya...

[Weisshaupt]

Found this at Sipsey Street Irregulars


I was reminded of it by this guys claim of "kindness"  This is a picture of Liberal Kindness.

Seriously, show us your "Humanity" as you hold guns to our heads and demand money for the causes YOU believe in
"Civility" as you endorse double standards and only obey the lays you agree with and disregard the limits on the power of govt.
Show us "Democracy" in the form of mob rule where minorities are deemed to have NO RIGHTS but what the Mob will grant them.
Show us your "Reason"  - by persuading  us you are right instead of using force to  step on us with your boot.

{Note of interest, the Facebook page for this image contains the tagline "Our Founders did not tolerate insurrectionists. We should follow their example"}

Because if we try a picture of using force, and label it with nicer terms, we can pretend its the application of those nicer terms that are putting the bullet holes in people's heads. (yeah, we associated ourselves with the tyranny of the English Crown against the insurrectionist who believe they had rights - including the right to bear arms - a right the english Crown tried to take away in an event that Actually started the war and the creation of this flag,  but you see those labels  on the boot mean our intentions are good, so violence is justified. )


Of course the left feels force is the answer to everything, and they couldn't argue to save their lives ( and  when the war finally starts,  I am going to make them try. "Okay libturd, here is a copy of the constitution, point to the section that grants the govt the power to dictate I buy insurance , or I will blow your brains out.")  Just the panic in their eyes will be worth it. I wonder how many won't even try because they already  know there is nothing in there. (Are you Serious!?!)

[Libertas]

{Note of interest, the Facebook page for this image contains the tagline "Our Founders did not tolerate insurrectionists. We should follow their example"}

Figures.  The insurrectionists were us, the Patriot freedom-fighters for American independence and liberty...the oppressors (British) called us insurrectionists and traitors...

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is not only advocating violence to achieve their statist goals in direct contravention of American Founding Principles...but they do not know or understand (or care to apparently) American Founding Principles...otherwise they would realize they are fascists and have to ban themselves from existence!

Effing psychotic assclowns! 

These dangerous fools have the mother of all wake up calls coming...

[Weisshaupt]

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is not only advocating violence to achieve their statist goals in direct contravention of American Founding Principles...but they do not know or understand (or care to apparently) American Founding Principles...otherwise they would realize they are fascists and have to ban themselves from existence!

Effing psychotic assclowns! 

Yeah,  the morons even have a comment on that page about how the Tea Party are the NAZIs.  Seriously?  The Socialist, pro-gun-control facists of the NAZI party are just like the Tea Party, whose principles ARE THE SAME as those that formed the original Tea-Party in Boston, and hence the adoption of the insurrectionist flag, used by armies fighting the gun and ammo grabbing British forces?

Found another page claiming the Tea Party has "mis appropriated" the image.making it mean "a very different idea of freedom than what it meant then"  What?
How exactly? They didn't say of course. But yeah, I am sure the the founders fought for a nation in which forced  taxation and  indenturing  those with abilities  in violation of their inalienable rights would pay for those with needs . Seriously. Taught in a Public school were you?

[Libertas]

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is not only advocating violence to achieve their statist goals in direct contravention of American Founding Principles...but they do not know or understand (or care to apparently) American Founding Principles...otherwise they would realize they are fascists and have to ban themselves from existence!

Effing psychotic assclowns! 

Yeah,  the morons even have a comment on that page about how the Tea Party are the NAZIs.  Seriously?  The Socialist, pro-gun-control facists of the NAZI party are just like the Tea Party, whose principles ARE THE SAME as those that formed the original Tea-Party in Boston, and hence the adoption of the insurrectionist flag, used by armies fighting the gun and ammo grabbing British forces?

Found another page claiming the Tea Party has "mis appropriated" the image.making it mean "a very different idea of freedom than what it meant then"  What?
How exactly? They didn't say of course. But yeah, I am sure the the founders fought for a nation in which forced  taxation and  indenturing  those with abilities  in violation of their inalienable rights would pay for those with needs . Seriously. Taught in a Public school were you?

Another classic example of why it is futile to try to educate Prog drones...people incapable of rational independent thought are a monumental waste of cells as well as my time...

[Alphabet Soup]

"There's nothing intrinsically wrong with liberalism that a decent sixteen ounce claw hammer couldn't rectify" - Alphabet Soup

[LadyVirginia]

"There's nothing intrinsically wrong with liberalism that a decent sixteen ounce claw hammer couldn't rectify" - Alphabet Soup

 

[Libertas]

Swing away!