I grew up in southern Colo. and northern NM and agree 100%.
That’s a neat story about sneaking the salsa in. Love it.
They could not get through customs without it, so we improvised.
My friend canned a lot of homemade salsa. It was very well done. He did the graphics for the label, we had good facilities to make short run printing. We went outside for the black and white portions, but printed the color laser prints in house. There were not used that often. The main catalog was 3,000 pages (plus indexes and insert pages), 47,000 items. It was a beast. 30# catalog.