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Ro-Tel

Brand of canned tomatoes and green chili

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2024
Entity authorityQ7339196 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ro-Tel (stylized as Ro★Tel) is the brand name of a line of canned tomatoes and green chili. There are different varieties of Ro-Tel in varying degrees of hotness and spiciness. The brand was acquired by ConAgra Foods in 2000 from International Home Foods. Ro-Tel gets its name from its inventor, Carl Roettele, who started a family canning company in Elsa, Texas, in the 1940s. It is commonly used in making chile con queso, particularly with Velveeta, and in King Ranch chicken.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ro-Tel” is brand of canned tomatoes and green chili. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ro-Tel, Brand and canned, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ro-Tel, Brand and canned is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 20, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7339196. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ro-Tel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.