BigJohn's pretty sufficiently summed up my email to him, so I won't go through all that again, except to add that I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be making it again, probably with some of my own variations.

One question to the Penderys users. I see a lot about blends. Do you use those blends in measure for the chili powder, or in substitution for entire dumps? I just noticed that the blend seems to include cumin, onion powder, etc, and that would seem odd... do you just use the blend as a dump?

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