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Buoyed by America's fascination with Southwestern flavors and a flood of homegrown products with catchy names such as Scorned Woman and Hair of the Ferret, salsa has become the king of condiments, outselling ketchup, barbecue sauce, and mustard.
The basic ingredients of tomato salsa--tomatoes, peppers, and onions--make peppers, and onions--make salsa versatile enough to use in soups, stews, sauces, and marinades, though most people use it as a dip for tortilla chips.
Our search for the nation's best salsas turned up big differences in taste and texture. We found one product almost as good as the salsas made flesh from our own recipes. But the worst were ...