October 19, 2005

• You know how Alice and I like to cook while we’re on our sister trips, right?  Well this year we had a Mexican dish and so we needed Queso and chips to accompany the meal and therefore we bought a can of RoTel as part of our groceries. 

  
  

  

  
  

  Imagine our surprise when we found this hunk of wood in the can along with the tomatoes and little green chillies.  I know it looks like a rock in the picture, but when it dried out it proved to be wood.  I wrote a letter to ConAgra Foods, who distributes Ro-Tel, and sent it along with the empty can and the piece of wood. Here is a part of that letter.

  
  

  
  

  To Whom It May Concern:

  
  

  Recently, my sister and I were on vacation in the Lake of the Ozarks area in a town called Osage Beach, MO . . . along with two of our friends, and since my sister and I love to cook, we cooked all of our meals rather than eating out.  It’s also a lot cheaper that way.  We bought all our grocery items at a place called Paul’s Grocery. One of the meals we were going to fix was a Mexican meal so of course we had to make some cheese Queso to go with it. We normally use the “Original” Ro-Tel, but this time we decided to try a can of  ”Chunky” instead.

  
  

  I quote the can . . . “Ro-Tel Chunky is the same great taste as Original Ro-Tel with larger, chunky diced tomatoes.”  Now, I’m all for getting a little extra fiber in my diet, but I’m not sure large chunky pieces of wood are the answer.  They are harder to chew, harder to swallow as well as digest, to say nothing of the fact that they lack a certain amount of . . . what shall we say . . . tastiness.  I’m fairly sure that you’ll want to reconsider this new addition to your Ro-Tel Chunky line.  I suggest you go back to the tried and true recipe using just tomatoes and little green chillies and leave out the chunky wood chips.

  
  

  I’m sort of anxious to hear back from them. 

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