Picked up a couple of bags of chilis that weren't yet on my [link|http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/chili.html|Chili List] yet and did a little research on 'em.

Right up near the top of the search results was the site of some [expletive deleted]ch who appeared a few times on TV in Texas. I won't name names even though her name is Melissa Guerra.

Big balyhoo about how she lives just over the border from Mexico and can get all these chilis REAL CHEAP! and pass her saving on to you! Her price is $4.95 / 2-OZ pack (per frigg'n 2-OZ, yes, TWO OUNCES) for the same chilis I just bought in the tiny gourmet pack at my local store for $0.49 US per [Bleeeeeeeep'n] ounce.

And I ask you - which one is selling the hell out of these chilis? I'd bet dollars to donuts** she is.

The American public is so damned stupid it can be out-thunk by it's own tapeworms.

Do you remember when the Internet was going to put all the "brick and mortars" out of business because it could sell everything at less than cost?

OK, I confess - I never did believe that (on the record) - but what I'm seeing today is JUST PLAIN ABSURD.

Now, lemme see - I can get those bassards from a gourmet site for $24 / 5 pound sack (premium quality) which comes to $0.30 US per oz - now, if only I'd appeared on TeeVee . . .

** OK, when Krispy Cream was standing in for Jesus dollars and donuts were about equivalent, but every bubble bursts eventually.

. . I'm hav'n a wee dram 'o Laphroaig** and buy'n the farm. Mess'n with the skate wings took longer than I shoulda let and I'm past due to crash.

**That's "paint stripper" not "paint thinner" per pwhysall (who's a lot closer to Islay than I am (damnit)).