On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:16:33 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > > St. Louis is almost the South. People make that Velveeta/Rotel crap
>> > > everywhere, don't they? I bet there's about as much Velveeta/Rotel
>> > > dip consumed per capita in Minnesota as in Mississippi.
>> >
>> > I can tell you that nobody in the Northeast even knows what Rotel is, so
>> > no, they don't make that crap everywhere.
>>
>> They don't sell Rotel there? Canned tomatoes with green chilies?
>
>In some 34 years in CT, most of those cooking and looking for
>interesting stuff in the grocery store, I don't recall ever noticing
>them. They may be there somewhere, perhaps hidden in the "Mexican"
>section, but pretty much nobody up there would know to look for them. I
>never saw them before I moved to TX. It works the other way around as
>well, some stuff common in the northeast is difficult to find in TX.
>

for what it's worth, rotel can be found in maryland (or at least the
suburbs of d.c.) i don't know if a large hispanic population has
anything to do with it or not.

your pal,
blake