>After all, you are the "top of the food chain" in the hot >sauce business" as the editor put it and I know will make a great source >for me. Yes most of us will eat anything we can get in our mouths. Just spice it up. >I would like to know what prompts you to buy one hot sauce over >another. What rings your chime, so to speak. It is taste, heat >levels, color, labels, price, advertising, word-of-mouth, salesmen's >advice or anything else that causes you to reach for that "special" >bottle. Also, if you don't mind, I'd also like to quote some of you in >the article because I feel there is a great cross-section of people on >the list. I personally, just try any hot sauce I find on the store shelves. If I like it I will buy it again. If not, I will through it away. Flavor is the number one criterion. Heat level is next. Price does not matter. Labels don't count either. I have found sauces that I heard about on this list, and bought them because of other chile heads recomendations. I have not been dissapointed yet. There are a lot of bad sauces out there, and quite a few good ones. I like a lot of heat, and that makes it harder to find a sauce with a good flavor. I finally got my hands on a bottle of Melinda's XXXXtra Hot the other day. I LIKE IT!!! And yes you can quote me on that. >If you feel that this is too commercial for a discussion on the list, >please feel free to e-mail me privately. I hope that this isn't the >case, however, because I think (in my own mind, of course) that this >would be an interesting topic. I think it is a good topic, too. Voodoo Mystic Fire Priest CH#1128 Wilson Phillips Eagle Computers #2-D Seargent S. Prentiss Dr. Natchez, MS 39120 601-445-8225