A Thump Story: Back around 1991 I got asked to work on some affinity projects for the company I was working for. The main one was a deal with the US Tennis Association. We paid like a gozillion dollars to be a sponser of the US Open ( I got center court front row seat to the whole tournament if I wanted them) and they signed up their members to use our long distance service. Remember, this was before long distance was basically free. So their members got cut rate ld service, the USTA got a gozillion dollars, and we got a shit ton of new customers. There was a lot more to it than that but that was the gist. So anyway, we got several inquiries about our deal with USTA and one of them was a company in Hunt Valley Maryland called PHH. They do fleet leasing and related stuff.
At our first meeting, I noticed the guy had a foam brick of chili on his desk and one conversation led to another and come to find out he was the recent winner if the Texas State Men's Chili Cookoff, one of the first non-Texans to win it. He had incorporated in a little town called Texas, MAryland so he could brand his chili as 'Texas Style' (no shit) and within a year he had 'retired' from PHH and was in the chili bidness. His company took off and his stuff was even in grocery stores out here in Oklahoma. I kept up with the guy, had him out to the US Open GOLF tournament when it was in Tulsa and have bought cases of his chili mix over the years directly from him.
He retired in the early 2000's and I lost my chiuli mix connection. A month or so ago, I did a search and found that a lady had bought his company and was reformulating a lot of his recipes. His jerky making spices are the very best you'll ever use. I spoke to her over email and she expects to have it reformulted and packaged this month.
So all of that to say, if you're looking for a bowl of awesome red, try ordering some Gunpowder Foods Chili Makin's from this place http://mildbillsspices.com/products/...oods-chili-mix
Its dad gumn awesome. I never did find old Bruce Pinnell. I guess maybe he may have passed or is in really deep retirement. Can't imagine that though. Last I talked with him, he'd moved on fromo chili and ws doing bbq cookoff contests.
BKB
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Originally Posted by LJ3
Gonna have to make some to get things straight up my my haid.
