I make nachos with this and melted shredded cheese. Sooooo good. I know it's unhealthy but it's a great lunch.

Three years ago, I had my family taste test virtually every salsa in the Walmart isle.

Homemade is best of course, but we found Mateo’s to be very very good. It’s nice to have a big box source when you need it.


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My friend Mr. Doggity is the biggest foodie I know. He says this is his favorite in KC:
https://www.facebook.com/silvas.foods.kc/

similar to my Hispanic wife's recipe plus some ingredients. Beats any store salsa.. doesn't hurt we get the freshest produce either

Perfection. We make our own as well.

This is also good if you can find it:

https://i.imgur.com/PFt4jUD.jpg

I have seen this at my Sunfresh and wondered about it. Next trip I will try it out.

I did this with my department at work, we basically had a "blind" salsa tasting and did a ranked score. It was great!

For whatever reason they don't get them. I don't rightly know why. Garden City especially would support one.

I am far from qualified to talk about it but I think there are different regions of food from mexico. Some outfits will have fairly bland stuff and expect the salsa to carry the spice load, others will have heartily seasoned food and milder fresher salsas. I'm sure there are a ton of other differences but those are the main differences my uncultured ass sees.

Most of them just feed their families. There was a local gal that ran a little grocery store that she sold food out of. It was ****ing to die for. Sadly the owner sold the building she was renting. So I'm out. Her salsa was pretty ****ing hot but my god it was good.

Hopefully she finds a new place.

Plan on going down that road once fieldwork slows down. No farmers market. :(

Dillons in Garden used to Carry Arriba. I like the chipotle stuff. I didn't find it last time I was down there.

I haven't. My wife ate there with some teachers and said the food wasn't great so I never went down that road. I probably should give it a try.
I used to get that when I worked at Cabela’s it was good.

I tried renfrows ghost pepper nacho cheese dip and the taste is great! Not too bad of a price at $4.99. Nice suggestion

Thats exactly where I'm at, just can't do salsa in a jar anymore unless its a last ditch option... would rather make my own, or at worst pony up for some fresh pack stuff

I'm loving this herdez guacamole salsa. But I use it more as a sauce I guess for tacos and stuff. Pretty damn good and has a little spice to it. Their brand of regular salsa sucks ass though

Fiance hates cilantro. Says it tastes like dish soap.

I think it’s a genetic thing. Baby Lee explained it all one time.

Yeah, I get that. Some people just don't like cilantro so when you make it yourself, don't add it. :D

Obviously, it's very different out here because in addition to all of the brands mentioned in this thread that are available at any grocery store, we have Mexican markets everywhere that make their own fresh salsas every day and for less than the typical jar of salsa.

With that said, I rarely find a Pico de Gallo that suits my taste. Some have cilantro, some don't, some use white onions, some use red onions and some even add celery(!) so I found that the only way I'm truly happy is making my own. Generally speaking, I'll involve my kids because they enjoy the process and eating fresh salsa a few hours after we make it.

However, the biggest advantage that we have here is that most of the Mexican markets also make fresh chips everyday and I gotta tell ya, there's nothing better than fresh tortilla chips.

There's just no way to get around it: They're a million times better than pre-packaged, regardless of the store bought brand.