Taste the Difference FRESHNESS Makes!

It all started in the summer of 1999 at our local Kamloops Farmer’s Market.

We began making our own fresh salsa at home as we were growing a garden and looking to eat healthier as a family. 

It had been suggested to us by friends who would taste Colin’s Salsa at parties that we should sell it, they would buy it.    So we gave it a go.  Armed that first day with 20-500ml Medium Salsa and a smile Colin hit the market at 6 am.  By 10 am the smile was gone and the 19 salsa’s sat untouched, as one was opened as a sample but no one had tried it yet… A few hundred people had walked by already.  Colin felt like heading home but the market insisted the vehicles and vendors could not leave until noon.  Colin stayed reluctantly. Good thing.  An hour later… he sold out!  We learned that no one ever samples in the early mornings after brushing their teeth.  The next week we were back with 40 salsa this time in different heats.  We needed a chip to sample the salsa with we thought, rather than a spoon but all the brands we tried were either too salty, too crumbled and broken, or too flavored to do justice to our salsa on a chip.  So the next week we learned how to make our own chips and hit the market with them as samples to get more folks to try our salsa.   People asked, “Where can they get these yummy chips”… so the next week we started stuffing our tortilla chips in a bag and the rest as they say is history…  Fresh Is Best was born.