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Has anyone else been to the Penzey's Spices website and read this?
https://www.penzeys.com/shop/about-republicans/
About Republicans
As we’ve now said on our first-ever About Us page on our website, there’s something unique about humankind’s relationship with spices that time and again have caused spices to be a driving force for change. We live in a time calling out for change and for solutions to the very real problems our country and our planet face. There’s two very different futures ahead for us totally dependent on whether we solve these problems or not. With so much at stake we feel obligated to use the unique position spices hold in our lives to try to help promote the solutions to these problems as best we can.
Watching the slow decline of the Republican Party over the last half century, and the steep decline/bottom falling out over the last decade, it can be easy to see the nonsense that has overtaken the party as pretty much random. Once you start seriously looking at the problems America and the world face and who and what are standing in the way of solving those problems, it quickly becomes clear there is nothing random to what the Republicans are promoting.
I don't go to that site very often, so I don't know how long that has been up. This statement is definitely worth the read.
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We only have one Penzey's Spice store in Pittsburgh and it's in the Strip district. Whenever I'm down in the Strip I try to stop in there. Penzey's is the kind of business that I like to support, even if their spices are higher than the discount stores. The fact that the family owners are also great Democrats is another plus.
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their products in my spice cabinet. 
He has pissed off the entire RW mediosphere. 
The C.E.O. Who Called Trump a Racist (and Sold a Lot of Spice Mix)
By Helen Rosner
February 1, 2018
A week after Donald Trump was elected the forty-fifth President of the United States, Bill Penzey sent an e-mail to a few thousand people. “The open embrace of racism by the Republican Party in this election is now unleashing a wave of ugliness unseen in this country for decades,” he wrote. “The American people are taking notice. Let’s commit to giving the people a better choice.” The recipients weren’t friends or colleagues or the fellow-members of an activist group. They were customers—subscribers to the mailing list of Penzey’s Wisconsin-based company, Penzeys Spices, which, with an online store and sixty-five retail locations, is America’s largest independent spice retailer. At the end of the message, he mentioned the company’s Thanksgiving specials, including a gift box of four mini-jars of spices for ten dollars.
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For customers who preferred their cardamom pods without a side of flaming liberal politics, another spice company awaited with open arms. A few days after Penzey’s e-mails exploded onto the national stage, the Spice House, another Wisconsin-based retailer, posted a message on its own Facebook page. “My husband and I are very careful to never bring politics or personal opinions into our spice company, they have no business there,” Patty Erd, who owns the Spice House with her husband, Tom, wrote. Never mind that the spice trade itself is one of the most intensely political industries in history, or that “staying out of politics” is, of course, its own kind of political statement. “Heck, I would not even want to get into a subjective debate over which cinnamon is the best!” Erd wrote. It may have been mere coincidence that she chose to single out cinnamon only days after the meticulous kitchen testers at Cook’s Illustrated had named Penzeys Spices’ Vietnamese varietal their pick for the best on the market, praising its “big, spicy flavor” and high percentage of volatile aromatic compounds. It was not, however, a coincidence that Erd felt the need to distance her business from Penzey’s: the two of them are siblings.
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/ceo-who-called-trump-racist-penzeys-spice-mix
By Helen Rosner
February 1, 2018
A week after Donald Trump was elected the forty-fifth President of the United States, Bill Penzey sent an e-mail to a few thousand people. “The open embrace of racism by the Republican Party in this election is now unleashing a wave of ugliness unseen in this country for decades,” he wrote. “The American people are taking notice. Let’s commit to giving the people a better choice.” The recipients weren’t friends or colleagues or the fellow-members of an activist group. They were customers—subscribers to the mailing list of Penzey’s Wisconsin-based company, Penzeys Spices, which, with an online store and sixty-five retail locations, is America’s largest independent spice retailer. At the end of the message, he mentioned the company’s Thanksgiving specials, including a gift box of four mini-jars of spices for ten dollars.
(snip)
For customers who preferred their cardamom pods without a side of flaming liberal politics, another spice company awaited with open arms. A few days after Penzey’s e-mails exploded onto the national stage, the Spice House, another Wisconsin-based retailer, posted a message on its own Facebook page. “My husband and I are very careful to never bring politics or personal opinions into our spice company, they have no business there,” Patty Erd, who owns the Spice House with her husband, Tom, wrote. Never mind that the spice trade itself is one of the most intensely political industries in history, or that “staying out of politics” is, of course, its own kind of political statement. “Heck, I would not even want to get into a subjective debate over which cinnamon is the best!” Erd wrote. It may have been mere coincidence that she chose to single out cinnamon only days after the meticulous kitchen testers at Cook’s Illustrated had named Penzeys Spices’ Vietnamese varietal their pick for the best on the market, praising its “big, spicy flavor” and high percentage of volatile aromatic compounds. It was not, however, a coincidence that Erd felt the need to distance her business from Penzey’s: the two of them are siblings.
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/ceo-who-called-trump-racist-penzeys-spice-mix
and almost every order has some freebie sample size packet of a spice that they will throw in (I think the packet holds about a tablespoon worth)!
The special running right now that ends today is this -
Penzeys Minced Garlic
To get your free 1/4 cup Penzeys Minced Garlic with $5 purchase, enter code GARLIC in the Apply Code field at checkout. Automatically added with code. No need to add anything here.
To get your free 1/4 cup Penzeys Minced Garlic with $5 purchase, enter code GARLIC in the Apply Code field at checkout. Automatically added with code. No need to add anything here.
The email that was sent out just this morning -
Penzeys Voice of Cooking
Kamala Harris in Penzeys Yesterday. Please watch!
Electing Kamala Harris president would save our democracy and give our planet’s environment a fighting chance to not melt down for a thousand years to come. For these two reasons alone everyone should vote for her.
But watch the video. She’s put in a lifetime of work to become the person she is, the person we need. Yes, she will save our democracy and keep us on the path to overcoming climate change, but it’s everything else she brings to the table that has me so looking forward to what comes next. We can’t let this election slip away. We just can’t.
No coupon or codes are needed for the ending-today $35.95 4-jar Grill and Broil gift boxes for $17.95, $17.95 Mini Grill boxes for just $10, $4.95 Salsa & Pico Seasoning for $1, and $7.95 Brady Street Seasoning for just $2.
To get your free also-ending-today $3.69 Penzeys Minced Garlic with $5 purchase in our stores, just spend $5 and be ready to show this email or the printed-out coupon from below.
Online at penzeys.com, once you have $5 in spending enter GARLIC in the apply code box at checkout. No need to place the Garlic in your basket, the GARLIC code will do that for you and for free. It’s easy.
After her visit the Pittsburgh Post Gazette had this: “Ms. Harris will face former President Trump in their first – and likely only – debate of the campaign Tuesday evening. Saturday afternoon, Ms. Harris said her favorite part of the debate preparations was getting to visit Penzeys, according to pool reports.”
I’m walking on sunshine
Watch the video. We have such decent, caring customers. None of them knew she was coming. This was just a random mix of cooks like you. She’s one of us. Let’s get her elected.
Everything we are started with you being you.
Thanks. Just thanks,
Bill
bill@penzeys.com
Kamala Harris in Penzeys Yesterday. Please watch!
Electing Kamala Harris president would save our democracy and give our planet’s environment a fighting chance to not melt down for a thousand years to come. For these two reasons alone everyone should vote for her.
But watch the video. She’s put in a lifetime of work to become the person she is, the person we need. Yes, she will save our democracy and keep us on the path to overcoming climate change, but it’s everything else she brings to the table that has me so looking forward to what comes next. We can’t let this election slip away. We just can’t.
No coupon or codes are needed for the ending-today $35.95 4-jar Grill and Broil gift boxes for $17.95, $17.95 Mini Grill boxes for just $10, $4.95 Salsa & Pico Seasoning for $1, and $7.95 Brady Street Seasoning for just $2.
To get your free also-ending-today $3.69 Penzeys Minced Garlic with $5 purchase in our stores, just spend $5 and be ready to show this email or the printed-out coupon from below.
Online at penzeys.com, once you have $5 in spending enter GARLIC in the apply code box at checkout. No need to place the Garlic in your basket, the GARLIC code will do that for you and for free. It’s easy.
After her visit the Pittsburgh Post Gazette had this: “Ms. Harris will face former President Trump in their first – and likely only – debate of the campaign Tuesday evening. Saturday afternoon, Ms. Harris said her favorite part of the debate preparations was getting to visit Penzeys, according to pool reports.”
I’m walking on sunshine
Watch the video. We have such decent, caring customers. None of them knew she was coming. This was just a random mix of cooks like you. She’s one of us. Let’s get her elected.
Everything we are started with you being you.
Thanks. Just thanks,
Bill
bill@penzeys.com
President Harris was today. 
is stacked full of their spices and seasonings. If you ever sign up for their product mailing list, you will get that type commentary in the emails featuring sales for their products.
Bill Penzey is a treasure! He had a "welcoming" billboard for the RNC Convention (since Penzey's is HQ'd in WI) -
