Are you in the mood for some good Mexican food? Today it's as close as your nearest food store where you will find authentic Mexican style flavor in any can bearing the Austex label. These fine foods are prepared at Walker's Austex Chilly Company located at 310 San Antonio street in Austin. In addition to Mexican foods, the company specializes in the canning of beef stews, spaghetti and meat balls, tomato sauce and cheese, corn beef hash, and maxene chili powder seasoning. The story of Austex's canned meat really begins in a nearby meat packing plant where slaughtering, processing and grading are carried out under the direction of the Department of Agriculture Inspector. Only high quality US inspected beef is used for Austex foods. Final beef inspection is completed by the government inspector who is specifically assigned to the Austex plant. Now the preparation of canned chilly begins. Beef is carefully cut and precooked in sanitary stainless steel kettles before other ingredients are added. The tangier flavor of Austex's chilly come from spices and seasonings which are blended fresh daily in a separate operation. In addition to chilly, Austex is justly famous for tamales all beef wrapped in a snowy jacket of genuine mesa meal make this the tamales of true Mexican flavor—tamales just like Pedro used to make. Spices are important to the tamales too and must be accurately weighed before going in to the beef mixture around the rich chilly gravy. All spices are important under rigid food and drug department regulations.