Old El Paso
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Old El Paso is a brand applied to a range of Mexican-style foods, including dinner kits, tacos and tortillas, sauces, condiments, rice and refried beans.
Old El Paso products are marketed across the globe. The brand is owned by General Mills. Pillsbury acquired it in 1995, when its then-parent company Grand Metropolitan bought Pet, Inc., which had itself taken over the brand in 1968 from the Mountain Pass Canning Company.[1]
The name is a reference to the city of El Paso, Texas.
General Mills have repeated the style of this product line - a recipe kit with dry ingredients that the consumer finishes with their choice of fresh ingredients - in the Chinese Food range called Wanchai Ferry.
[edit] Issues
In Switzerland, the wheat tortillas - as well as the corn variant, but those less so - tend to mold on the retailer's shelves, or within one or two days of first opening the package. Estimatedly every third or fourth package is affected, though not easily spotted. (In the beginning the mold looks like the darkened spots from baking.) Why this happens is unclear.
Other products from the same line seem to not be affected.
Furthermore it is not known if the problem exists in other countries.
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[edit] External links
- Old El Paso USA
- Old El Paso UK
- Old El Paso Germany
- Old El Paso Spain
- Old El Paso Sweden
- Old El Paso Australia
- Old El Paso Canada
- Old El Paso France
- Official Old El Paso UK Facebook Page
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