Posted on 01/28/2022 11:46:34 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Penzey's Spices, the Milwaukee-based company that held "Republicans are Racist Weekend" sale on Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend earlier this month, is now dealing with a massive loss of customers and is now all but begging for new business.
"After starting the year with All Republicans are Republicans and following up with Republicans are Racists we’ve set a nice little Boycott Penzeys! surge in motion," Penzey's CEO Bill Penzey said in an email to customers Friday. "It certainly wasn’t unexpected, but if it’s within your means, you picking up a small stack of Gift Cards would help."
Penzey admitted that the "Republicans are Racists" email cost his business 40,005 subscribers, roughly three percent of the total. As a result, Penzey's is offering a gift card sale "with the hope this might make it a bit easier for you to share some and possibly get a few good new customers to replace the ones we’ve lost."
While Penzey claims that news coverage of his anti-Republican rant brought in 30,000 new email subscribers, he adds that "we are still down about 10,000. Please help."
His email then takes on a desperate tone, all but begging liberals to sign up for his email list as a way of virtue-signaling their politics.
"If you can’t even begin to fathom how to 'compromise' with January 6th, or the Republican vaccine lies needlessly killing 10,000 Americans every week, if you have no desire to become half-way racist, and if their intent to destroy our climate for one thousand years to come doesn’t have you asking: 'What if we just destroyed it for five-hundred years instead?' we would be better off with you on this Voice Of Cooking email list," he wrote.
Two weeks ago, Penzey wrote in a shocking email that Republicans are so racist that they fantasize about killing African Americans.
"Remember how Republicans, going against a mountain of evidence to the contrary, once again lied and said BLM wasn't a peaceful movement but instead terrorists inciting violence throughout the country and then raced out to buy a crapload of guns because maybe they were finally going to get their chance to shoot a Black person?" he said in his email to customers. "What a bunch of racists."
Amid the firestorm over his that screed, Penzey bragged to the Daily Mail that we has not worried about a potential loss of customers because so many new ones would start buying his spices, saying "onn one hand they wish we would tone down the racism thing but on the other hand we have really good spices and they are not going to sacrifice those."
It turns out so many of them did that Penzey has resorted to desperate measures to build back his customer base.
Bill Penzey has been showing his butt to the world for years, it’s about time he went too far and falls flat on it.
Grow your own herbs. It's easy and they taste much better.
You can buy some fresh basil at the grocery store. Stick it in water and within a week it will start to root. The internet has instructions. Be sure to remove the leaves at the bottom of the stem. Grow your own thyme. I grow it all winter in an indoor pot. Plus it's a perennial. Rosemary grows all year, probably not way up north though.
I would genuinely like to see any part of the "mountain of evidence" he claims exists that blm is peaceful. As far as I know the only "mountain of evidence" related to this shows they are in fact a domestic terrorist organization.
Penzey's - blm and antifa are domestic terrorist organizations. Prove me wrong or sit down and STFU.
The Spice House originated in Evanston Illinois, hubbys home town. We always stopped in there, they have some we really like. I discovered their website a few years ago and we have been ordering from them. We get the packets and it’s plenty for us. Their greektown seasoning is great on meats. It used to be called Billy goat seasoning. We always got some. When I first started ordering I didn’t see it so I emailed them and they told me they changed the name. Great when we do lamb on the spit.
Good
I never heard of this ahole or his stupid company.
I hope he goes bankrupt.
Here’s a few I use:
http://www.spicebarn.com/complete_product_list.htm
https://www.spiceandtea.com/spices.html
I don’t think Penzey’s will stay private for much longer.
Sonebody’s gonna get a bargain if they’re interested.
Wonder if the CEO screwed his company in purpose...
I was considering buying from them at one point (a few years ago). Then they went woke.
Never bought from them, and not sbout to start now.
They can kiss my gluteus maximus.
It’s amazing how many corporate executives don’t realize that conservatives buy things too.
The original Spice House in Evanston has been around over 60 years. Maybe its different. If anyone is looking for the best paprika ever try Butch Packer in Detroit, their smoked sweet paprika is out of this world and cheap, something like 8 bucks for a 1 pound bag. Here’s a link
Great company, lots of spices too. We also get our sausage casings from them.
Got the message loud and clear.
Yep. Mine too.
We have a couple of stores in the area which carry a large variety of spices. Scoop from bin into little plastic bag, weigh it, done.
Same here. Called their Overland Park KS store to let them know why they had lost me as a customer.
I stopped buying from their store in Madistan many years ago after hearing about the owner’s disdain for conservatives on Mark Belling’s radio show. Might have been way back in the Act 10 days.
They lost only 3%?
Link to My Store above. Scroll down the product list and you will find a spice rub, and a little further down are some Cajun spices. FYI
In Atlanta, I go to The DeKalb’s Farmer’s Market. It is deep in liberal land, but it is such a fun time to go there and see all of the ethnic varieties of food\spices and people. It is worth the trip.
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