Warren Raises the Grocery-Price Question
Elizabeth Warren posted on X expressing concern that a merger between McCormick Spices and Unilever could push grocery prices higher. The post drew 3.6 million views, according to the Gateway Pundit report. The report also highlighted the contrast between Warren’s warning about food costs and her support for a green agenda and higher taxes, arguing that critics can question her concern about rising prices while opposing policies they believe make everyday expenses more burdensome. Whatever one thinks of the merger, Warren’s post quickly became more than a warning about prices. It opened the door to a very public response.
Frank McCormick Delivers a Sharp Reply
Frank McCormick then entered the exchange. He says he is a grandson of McCormick Spices’ founder, and he answered Warren with a family-history argument rather than a policy lecture. “My grandfather built McCormick Spices from nothing after your ancestors tomahawked his wife and kids. I’ll be damned if you take another scalp from my family fortune!” he wrote. The language was personal and deliberately dramatic. It turned a warning about a merger and grocery bills into a clash involving ancestry, business history, and political identity. The Gateway Pundit described the response as a gut punch; readers can judge the exchange for themselves.
The Reply Gets More Attention
According to the report, Warren’s post had 3.6 million views, while McCormick’s reply reached 4.2 million. That difference became the online scoreboard, with the report describing Warren as having been “ratioed.” The report also highlighted Spencer Pratt’s reference to Warren’s “Pow Wow Chow” recipe-book contribution. The episode shows how quickly a policy warning can become a personality contest on X, where a sharp retort can attract more attention than the original argument. In this case, the family connection McCormick claimed gave the response an added hook and pushed the dispute well beyond the original merger question.
Old Ancestry Claims Return to the Debate
The report used the exchange to revisit long-running criticism of Warren’s claims about Native American ancestry and her professional history. It repeated the claim that she is 1/1,024 Native American and alleged that she used an American Indian identity to move ahead of rivals, including during her career at Harvard. Those assertions were presented by the report as reasons to question Warren’s grocery-price warning. The McCormick exchange itself did not establish those claims, but it gave critics another chance to bring them back into the public discussion. That is how a single post about a potential merger pulled older political disputes into the same online fight.
Guess we know what ingredients won't be going in this year's Pow Wow Chow! pic.twitter.com/mhipiio7kQ
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) October 15, 2026
