Please recommend some brands of prepackaged Latin food to substitute for Goya

How weird, OP. I was just about to start a thread “Who’s boycotting Goya?” and bumped into yours. I don’t really use Goya products, but will probably still buy the odd can of this or seasoning packet of that when needed.

I’ve never used those products. I see them in our locally owned “ethnic” grocery stores but I’ve never been attracted to them.

I’ve always thought of them as products Cubans or Puerto Rican’s use but not us, Mexas

Does the Puerto Rican possess "use"?

Depends on the products.

Doña Maria, La Costeña, Herdez for your sauces.

There’s all kinds of canned bean brands as well.

There’s plenty of substitutes for that brand.

I buy La Costeña canned black beans, whole and refried. My brother likes Doña Maria Nopalitos (I myself cannot stand pickled cactus, though).

There's analogues to Goya available in every relevant food category.

For canned beans, I recommend Bush's. I have to admit that Goya has good garbanzos (canned). However, Bush's *organic* garbanzos are really good.

The seasoning packets are the only thing I'm wondering how to replace.

OF COURSE, I could mix my own. But these are very good. And if someone knows suitable replacements, please speak up!!!

There is a Goya dupe/substitution thread on twitter:

Their garbanzo beans are the best and I can eat a whole can as a snack.

I’ll try other brands until I find a suitable replacement, but I won’t be buying their products anymore.

I like Herdez sauces. La Costena also owns S&W brand beans. When it comes to beans, I usually cook my own (dried beans are cheap and easy to cook), or I get the store brand. Beans are beans.

I have no problem with Goya. We have freedom of speech and freedom of thought in this country. Fuck AOC and her nutjobs friends. Government has just become one massive broken machine which won't allow anything to get done. To watch Biden get up there and start mumbling about infacture is laughable. I've been listening to these people talk about infacture for decades. Here in NYC the roads, bridges, tunnels, drainage, everything is ready to collapse. It's all a joke. People like AOC, who never built a single thing, are wagging their finger in the face of family owed company which has been around for three generations, which employees tens of thousands of people, many of which are likely Latino. This country has become a hopeless disgrace. The Green Deal? Fix the potholes in the fucking streets and highways so taxpayers can get to their jobs without cracking their rims. Idiots.

Those are seasoning packets, R7?

We use bouillon cubes from Knorr. They have chicken flavor and beef flavors and even shrimp and tomato flavors.

We’ve been using those cubes and powders for rice and any kind of dish since forever.

For chili powder, I use & recommend Gebhardt's. I was reluctant to try it because of the name, but it's very good.

Add fresh cilantro if you want and use the tomato bouillon cubes one for your recipe.

Easy peasy 🤷🏻‍♀️

Indeed, they are seasoning packets, R12. Good ones, too. They are quick and easy to use when making dinner. Add one of those packets to a can of beans and the result is terrific. Same thing with some meats being stewed.

But it looks like they have to be replaced.

The Hispanic food section in my supermarket is actually labeled Hispanic (Goya). Like 95% of the products there are Goya brand. Your only real option will be to go to places like Lotte and H-Mart, international stores that carry some other brands, because Goya has a near monopoly just about everywhere.

Iberia La costeña Unfortunately Goya has the market cornered.

[quote] Unfortunately Goya has the market cornered.

Indeed, it does. But maybe this is the moment when we can turn that all around!!!

For fast food: Back in the Jocks

My grandmother never used anything but Mexene chili powder which is still on the market.

I guess our proximity to MX is the reason we’ve never used Goya. We have the real thing (Mexican ingredients and whatnot) in practically every store here in far West TX.

For dried beans, there's always the store brand and Bob's Red Mill.

[quote]I have no problem with Goya. We have freedom of speech and freedom of thought in this country. Fuck AOC and her nutjobs friends. Government has just become one massive broken machine which won't allow anything to get done. To watch Biden get up there and start mumbling about infacture is laughable. I've been listening to these people talk about infacture for decades. Here in NYC the roads, bridges, tunnels, drainage, everything is ready to collapse. It's all a joke. People like AOC, who never built a single thing, are wagging their finger in the face of family owed company which has been around for three generations, which employees tens of thousands of people, many of which are likely Latino. This country has become a hopeless disgrace. The Green Deal? Fix the potholes in the fucking streets and highways so taxpayers can get to their jobs without cracking their rims. Idiots. Agreed.

So fucking lame. The company has donated over 300,000 pounds of food, about 270,000 meals, to food banks and organisations to help with coronavirus relief. They worked with Michelle Obama on her school lunch program. And you can just imagine the number of Latinos the company employs.

So the CEO praised Trump, so fucking what? Isn't Trump going to be gone in a few months anyway? The left can be so fucking stupid.

From the Goya website:

"Goya Foods has been a proud supporter of nearly 300 charitable endeavors, programs, scholarships, and events that promote culture and benefit overall community wellness. Goya has also taken the lead in numerous disaster relief efforts, providing food donations in times of crisis and consistently working with local food banks, charities and non-profits to assist those less fortunate. Over the years, Goya has donated millions of pounds of food to victims of various disasters worldwide including Hurricane Sandy, Isaac, Harvey, Irene, and Maria, as well as the earthquake in Haiti."

"In March and April 2020, Goya donated over 300,000 pounds of food, equivalent to over 270,000 meals, to organizations, food banks, food pantries and soup kitchens, as well as over 20,000 protective masks across the nation to those facing hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic."

· Donations were made directly to Catholic Charities of New York and Newark, Food Education Fund, The Sisters of Life, The NY Common Pantry in partnership with New York City FC, City Harvest in New York City, The Community FoodBank of New Jersey, Secaucus Food Pantry, families of Cristo Rey High School, Jersey City Medical Center, The City of Jersey City for the Homeless, Holy Name Hospital, and Kingsborough Community College; Caring for Friends in Philadelphia; Feeding South Florida; The Houston Food Bank, Latino Learning Centers Inc., Tejano Center for Community Concerns, Texas Feeding Alliance and Catholic Charities of San Antonio in Texas; The Salvation Army Little Village, Catholic Charities Casa Latina and Children's Hunger Fund in Chicago. With the support of each organization, the food has been and will continue to be distributed to families, children, homeless and the elderly communities.

· On March 13, 2020, Goya donated 18,225 meals through the Food Education Fund to students and families of six public high schools in New York City including Food & Finance High School, Facing History High School, Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction, Manhattan Bridges High School, P.S. 138 - District 75, and High School for Hospitality Management.

Goya oh Boya! The food is decent at a very inexpensive price point, people need to eat.

Goya seasoning contains MSG.

I'm cuban and I like goya, because american brands are just too bland for my taste.

Goya IS an American brand, R27.

I like Badia's mojo.

Cock

^ Good call.

Step 1: Drive to your grocery store of preference

Step 2: Get out of your car and actually go inside.

Step 3: Get yourself to the Goya shelf, it's usually all lined up there together in one spot.

Step 4: Look around, what is on the adjacent shelves?

Step 5: Buy one of those things.

Any comments on Tajin powder? TIA.

Finally, r32, thanks for being the lone voice of reason.

Geez, people, get it together! Why can't you all be like r32?

We use it for all sorts of fruits and vegetables, R33.

When your fruit isn’t particularly sweet and sort of bland? Add Tajín.

Cucumbers, coconut anything.

There’s a low-sodium version as well, because, let’s face it, it’s mostly salt and lemon/lime juice.

I see what R32 is saying. I think people are just looking for specific suggestions. Nothing wrong with that, IMO.

Yeah, buying a can of beans from the competition is really going to make a dent in Goya.

Meanwhile the company is giving away 1 million cans of chick peas to food banks.

They probably have more cans drop off of their trucks in a day than you'll buy in a lifetime.

R32's statement is condescending and untrue. Goya has its own shelves. All its products are displayed together.

But each grocer is free to shelve other items wherever it wants to. It may, or may not, have a Latino food section and it may, or may not, be near the Goya items. If there is a Latino food section, that would be helpful in tracking down analogs to the Goya products. Or, it could be that the Latino brand beans are shelved with other beans and the spices are found in the spice section, coconut milks might all be together, or not, depending on if the store has Latino and Asian food sections, or not.

R32 is just being a smart-ass.

R32 knows what R32 is talking about.

Don't worry about it, you don't buy Latin foods because you would already know the answer to your question.

White liberal boycotts don't matter.

Teasdale Latin Foods, especially their hominy.

The Goya boycott is not shaping up to be a white liberal thing. It's an arrogant and rich Puerto Rican family against a lot of working class Latinos who are incensed by Trump's racism and xenophobia. The family that owns Goya thinks of itself as an important Puerto Rican family with deep roots fine old Spanish families. They are as racist and bigoted as Trump himself. And they are going to get their asses kicked.

I thought the founders were from Spain?

i probably disagree with him on almost everything but not when he says that cancel culture is suppression of free speech. And free speech is one of the pillars our country is built on.

Free speech is what our country is built on, and calling for a boycott is a form of free speech.

Is cancel culture the same thing as calling for a boycott? Is a boycott suppression of free speech? I don't understand anything anymore.

This boycott is as dumb and ineffecrive as the one against Chick Fil A. Remind me how the latter turned out.

I've never bought Goya products before, but I will be sure to pick some up the next time I shop.

R23. You want to know why he kissed Trump's ass. Here is the reason...60 of America's biggest companies paid no federal income tax in 2018 Goya was one of them. Big companies have long relied on strategies to reduce their tax bills. But the new tax law is making it even easier, with a new analysis finding that 60 profitable Fortune 500 companies paid no taxes on a total of $79 billion of profits earned in 2018. The companies, which include tech giants such as Amazon and Netflix, should have paid a collective $16.4 billion in federal income taxes based on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's 21 percent corporate tax rate. Instead, these corporations received a net tax rebate of $4.3 billion. This bullshit of how they have donated is a front that all of that is deducted from taxes. Even at $10/meal, their donation would not exceed a value of more than 2.7 million dollars! The Koch Brothers do the same thing, snow the public with their philanthropy but make off like bandits in their tax breaks they have gained through Republicans.

R11. This is why we can't fix potholes. Big donors get big tax breaks and thus there is no money for a green deal or to repair roads. Someone has to pay for all the tax breaks given to companies to locate in a community. You know who that is....the middle and lower class as they pay the bills to keep the streets paved, sewer and water working and fire departments.

So don't give me this crap about Goya's philanthropy. Sure its great but the top 1% keep getting richer and that is why he kissed Trump's butt.

The boycott may not put them out of business, but I can't in good conscience buy their products now.

La Costena, Herdez, and La Victoria are all good. If you go to a Kroger, their house brand of adobos en chile and green chiles are both very good, as are their Simple Truth organic spicy black beans.

I never noticed Goya having its own shelves on our local stores, and in fact don't see more Goya than any other brand of Hispanic food. There are a couple of Goya brands of cookies but there's also just as much Gamesa brand right next to it. There are more cans of Rosarita beans than Goya beans.

I had no idea Goya had such a stranglehold on the market in some areas.

[quote]Is a boycott suppression of free speech?

Of course not. A boycott IS free speech, but the homophobic trolls want you to think otherwise.

You people really eat canned foods when there's not a hurricane or some other natural disaster?

[quote]cancel culture is suppression of free speech

[quote] Is a boycott suppression of free speech?

[quote]You people really eat canned foods when there's not a hurricane or some other natural disaster?

These are all the same guy trying to start a flamewar, by the way.

I am the third person you quoted, r54. and I don't know or have anything to do with the two first posters you quoted. Are you the same poster who has been going around various threads tonight accusing posters of things they didn't say or post and just generally trying to stir up shit?

Are just a lame TROLL?

Glad the ignore button works well for the Trumptard on this thread

The thing is all the Mexican or Colombian or El Salvadoran replacements have their own flavor profiles. Goya is more PRican and those are the flavors we're looking to replace. Mexican adobo is a sauce, PR adobo is a seasoned salt. When I was growing up, we used other brands, but you only see them here in bodegas and specialty stores, if at all. Goya has most of the shelf space and what ever else is next to it isn't always analogous flavor-wise.

These are great. Few people know the secret recipe.

A lot of silly trolling. I noticed that my local Giant (dominant grocery chain) seems to have taken advantage of this to add a full line of another brand (Harvest something) in the dried beans section.

OP, you lost anyone with culinary sense with your idiotic "prepackaged." Saying "please" was not enough.

And take the noxious R59 with you, who manages to snot on posters while offering nothing to poor you.

And since we grow and process our own core supplies and fill in with orders from Oaxaca and fresh local fare, we do not have to withdraw from a crap company in the first place.

[quote] You people really eat canned foods when there's not a hurricane or some other natural disaster?

Yes, hon, I’m not some lesbian farmfrau who’s into soaking dried beans and chickpeas every time I want to use some.

As to the notion that I have a moral obligation to give my dollars to a CEO whose views are abhorrent to me lest the poor dear feel less free to express those views, how utterly warped. I the potential customer also have a right to express and act upon my views.

And a boycott isn’t suppressing anybody’s free speech. Mr. Goya or whoever can continue to say and do exactly as he pleases; it’s his choice and calculation to make as to whether that’s worth the loss of business that may result, not our obligation to make sure there is no loss of business.

It’s ridiculous how many people can’t get it through their fat skulls that the right to free speech does not = the right to free speech without consequences or disagreement.

I love gotta Goya and will continue to buy their stuff. I'm tired of cancel culture. I'm not going to go down a list of potential products I should avoid buying.

OP, do you really think buying anything but Goya is going to put a dent in their bottom line.? And remember they package private labels for ShopRite and other chains. No boycott has ever hurt a large business. Don't waste your time.

R63, there's some stuff I do or don't do just because that's my choice. Maybe a bad analogy, but if I went to a restaurant and got treated very rudely, I wouldn't go back. Do I think I'm going to bankrupt this business? No. I just choose not to go any more.

Also, I currently live in an area (and I'm sure others do, too) where there's simply not that much choice, as far as brick & mortar shopping. My siblings live in a more urban area and talk about how they're boycotting this or that. I say pffft to them, sometimes, too, because I don't have the choices they have.

Exactly, r63. I don't think boycotting a business such as Goya or Shit-Fil-A is going to put a dent in their bottom line or persuade them to change their objectionable views and actions; I just choose not to give them my money.

Haha I was just at Kroger where goya products are shelved with other canned beans. Shelves were full. Not one can missing. Others brands were being snapped up. I get the Kroger black beans.

You can Goya own way!

many cubans prefer goya black beans because they are softer and stay black when boiled. their canned black beans also have a nice black color. other brands of black beans always turn rather brown when cooked or they dont release enough color in water.

[quote]I think people are just looking for specific suggestions. Nothing wrong with that, IMO.

R36, right wing trolls on this thread are pushing:

a) Goya has the market sewed up, and there's no available alternatives (R17)

b) Boycotts don't work, or they're infringing on free speech (R37, R40, R47)

c) the alternatives suggested won't do - it has to be Goya (R25, R27).

Fuck Goya, snobby Spaniards who looked down on Latinos. Aldi black beans and garbanzo beans (organic canned) are just as good as Goya. The only Goya product I haven’t found A substitute for is their ham flavored powder for my spinach pie.

I still buy Barilla. It's cheaper.

Infacture?