# Texas dopers, do you remember a contest / game held by HEB back in the 1980s? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952 "2021-10-05T22:18:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/1 "2021-10-05T22:18:59Z")
I was thinking about my days as a child in the 1980s, and a memory came up of a game held by HEB back in those days. This would have likely been something like the McDonald’s Monopoly game, only it involved horse racing. The way I remember it, every time you checked out at the store you would get a game card that would have the name of a horse and maybe a jockey or a racetrack. Maybe it involved collecting them all rather than holding a specific card. Either way, those who won would get some kind of discount on their next trip to the store. Do any of you all recall anything like this? ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/2 "2021-10-05T22:48:18Z")
What is an HEB? ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/3 "2021-10-05T23:04:02Z")
It’s the big grocery store chain here in Texas, headquartered in San Antonio. Other places have Piggly Wiggly, Kroger’s, and so on. We have HEB. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/4 "2021-10-05T23:33:27Z")
That there is H-E-B. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/5 "2021-10-05T23:34:04Z")
Was it “Let’s Go to the Races”? I vaguely remember that game in the ‘70’s through the SuperValu stores in Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/6 "2021-10-05T23:35:02Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > That there is H-E-B. I felt too lazy today to put the dashes in 🤪 Typing on my phone doesn’t help the situation. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/7 "2021-10-05T23:37:47Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Was it “Let’s Go to the Races”? > I vaguely remember that game in the ‘70’s through the SuperValu stores in Minnesota. Could be. I’ll look that up. I assumed it was a local thing, but it could very well have been national and involved other grocery chains. As an elementary school kid in a time before the internet there’s no way I would have known at the time. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/8 "2021-10-06T00:09:06Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Was it “Let’s Go to the Races”? > I vaguely remember that game in the ‘70’s through the SuperValu stores in Minnesota. That was the one. Thank you for finding it 😀. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/9 "2021-10-06T00:18:24Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > That there is H-E-B. HEB founder=Howard Edward Butt. There’s also Hurst-Euless-Bedford. It looks like their district hyphenates the name. > **[Hurst Euless Bedford Independent School District / Homepage](https://www.hebisd.edu/)** ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/10 "2021-10-06T00:22:31Z")
You’re welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/11 "2021-10-06T02:22:10Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > HEB founder=Howard Edward Butt. > There’s also Hurst-Euless-Bedford. It looks like their district hyphenates the name. It’s funny, I’ve always associated the two as though that’s where the name came from.… ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/12 "2021-10-06T03:36:57Z")
We also had “Let’s Go To The Races” in Iowa, which also had Super Valu and may still, under that or another name, mostly in small towns. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-dopers-do-you-remember-a-contest-game-held-by-heb-back-in-the-1980s/951952/13 "2021-10-29T17:33:16Z")
> HEB founder=Howard Edward Butt. I worked at HEB in Austin when I was in High School and college from about 1988 - 1992… I don’t remember that game but if it was the early 80’s that may have been before my time. I do remember a joke around the breakroom that HEB was going to merge with Whole Foods and become Butt-Whole Foods… Alas a merger that has yet to occur.