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StarryNite

(12,116 posts)
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:20 PM Sep 2022

I love Penzeys!

Not only are their spices amazing, they are an awesome company! They will continue to get my business.

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.

The Republican departure from conservative values and embrace of what, from a distance, looks a whole lot like insanity didn’t happen by chance. All of it has been intelligently crafted with the goal of preserving the position of those who profit from the inhumanity that is at the very roots of pretty much every problem we are facing. From the environment, to racism/discrimination, to health, to saving our democracy at home and growing it abroad, half the time Republicans are intentionally blocking the solution to the problems we face. The other half of the time they are the problem we face.

The truth of our time is we’ve arrived at the point where there’s no way to respect the nonsense the Republican Party is promoting and have any hope of overcoming the problems we as a nation and we as a planet face. Given the choice between saving America and planet Earth or saving the feelings of Republican voters, we are choosing to side with saving our country and our world. I’m sorry it’s come to this.

More at link:

https://www.penzeys.com/shop/about-republicans/

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I love Penzeys! (Original Post) StarryNite Sep 2022 OP
I also always support Penzeys. llmart Sep 2022 #1
Their spices make wonderful gifts. StarryNite Sep 2022 #2
Oh yes. I have a store near me, so I can pick up rather than use shipping. Croney Sep 2022 #3
Thanks for posting this cyclonefence Sep 2022 #4
Reverse boycott! I love that! StarryNite Sep 2022 #11
It's a 'Buy-Cott" SeattleVet Sep 2022 #16
100% agree, a true blue corporation Habitation Sep 2022 #5
Penzey's is a great gift... ultralite001 Sep 2022 #6
I lurv their granulated shallots and often sprinke it on popcorn. Snarkoleptic Sep 2022 #7
I was a customer way back, decades Easterncedar Sep 2022 #8
A year ago or so, I had a post removed for posting MerryBlooms Sep 2022 #9
Penzey's is great FoxNewsSucks Sep 2022 #18
we've bought from them multiple times RussBLib Sep 2022 #10
Penzeys Spices are exceptional lindalou65 Sep 2022 #12
...and they are giving away a free coffee mug with every order RussBLib Sep 2022 #13
I buy stuff I don't even need. Ferrets are Cool Sep 2022 #14
I have just bookmarked the store nearest me and will make it a point to go in. LoisB Sep 2022 #15
We have a Penzey's in Pittsburgh FakeNoose Sep 2022 #17

llmart

(17,622 posts)
1. I also always support Penzeys.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:25 PM
Sep 2022

Though nowadays I rarely cook, I do give them as gifts.

Penzeys is a company and family on the right side of history. Though we've already gone through horrendous times recently because of the cult of trump, we will prevail. I know that in my heart. I may not live long enough to experience it, but I just feel like right will win out in the end.

StarryNite

(12,116 posts)
2. Their spices make wonderful gifts.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:27 PM
Sep 2022

My daughter often gives them to family members and we all love them and wind up ordering more.

Croney

(5,017 posts)
3. Oh yes. I have a store near me, so I can pick up rather than use shipping.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:30 PM
Sep 2022

My husband has to limit his salt intake, and Penzeys has many great salt-free spice blends. My favorite is Green Goddess, a salad dressing blend but I put it on any vegetable dish.

I give Penzeys gift boxes to my Rethug relatives. I think they know what the message is, but they don't say anything. 🙂

cyclonefence

(5,151 posts)
4. Thanks for posting this
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:34 PM
Sep 2022

I've received gift packs from them--the products I've used were really excellent--but now I'm going to make a point of buying from them.

Reverse boycott!

Snarkoleptic

(6,235 posts)
7. I lurv their granulated shallots and often sprinke it on popcorn.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:54 PM
Sep 2022

Arizona Dreaming is a nice SW blend.
Plus they have nice mugs and voting-related stickers.

Easterncedar

(6,269 posts)
8. I was a customer way back, decades
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:58 PM
Sep 2022

And I’ve been so happy at the stand up activism of Bill Penzey the past several years. The Princess Bride cast reunion they supported was magic. The response to the BLM protests was thrilling.

I came for the spices, which are fabulous, and have stayed for the loving uplift.

MerryBlooms

(12,248 posts)
9. A year ago or so, I had a post removed for posting
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 10:02 PM
Sep 2022

A Penzeys email as SPAM. Happy to see DU has moved forward. 😄

I LOVE Penzeys! Great products, great messaging. 🥰

FoxNewsSucks

(11,704 posts)
18. Penzey's is great
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 11:55 PM
Sep 2022

I signed up for their email list because I really liked the store in a WI town I visited on vacation. Never heard of them before that, and was glad to find out they had a store not too far from me.

I was so glad to realize from the newsletter that they were a really good liberal company.

I'm not surprised about your post, it's really sad that there's a sect here which goes after the "far left"

RussBLib

(10,635 posts)
10. we've bought from them multiple times
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 10:11 PM
Sep 2022

one of the only places I could find Mexican Oregano, except for my back yard!

lindalou65

(391 posts)
12. Penzeys Spices are exceptional
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 10:23 PM
Sep 2022

My husband and I have spent significant amounts ordering from Penzeys and always are satisfied. Great spices and definitely a great company.

Thanks for posting this!

RussBLib

(10,635 posts)
13. ...and they are giving away a free coffee mug with every order
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 10:34 PM
Sep 2022

I guess while supplies last - says "Choose Love" on it. Pretty too.

I just placed an order

FakeNoose

(41,637 posts)
17. We have a Penzey's in Pittsburgh
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 11:43 PM
Sep 2022

It's in the Strip District, on Penn Avenue. I'll make a point of shopping there from now on.

Thanks for the tip!

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