Re: [CH] Tabasco Sauce (tm)

Richard Ducker (cj5b@yahoo.com)
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:52:48 -0800 (PST) 

OK, time for me to come out of the closet here.  I'm a
lurker, only been on the list for a few weeks.  I LOVE
all peppers, hot or not.  I'm not so much in it for
the heat, I love the taste.  Sure, the heat is nice,
but if it tastes like crap I really don't see the
point of eating it.  Just my $.02.  Flame away, I'm
used to it from being on the Jeep-L. ;o)
Rich
76/79 CJ5

--- Jeff Thompson <jeffthompson@mac.com> wrote:
> I'd bet that just about everyone's first exposure to
> hot sauces is Tabasco
> Sauce. Sure, it's the Budweiser of hot sauces, but
> it gets people interested
> in all things hot and spicy. It's sort of like a
> gateway drug for
> chile-heads.
> 
> I think the segment was valid from a historical
> perspective as well. The
> creator of Tabasco Sauce was the innovator that
> created the market for hot
> sauces in general. Whether or not you like the
> product, you have to at least
> acknowledge the pioneer as being a proto chile-head.
> 
> <I feel a rant coming on...>
> 
> There seems to be a minority on the mailing list
> that won't eat anything but
> habaneros: habanero salsa, habanero sauce, habanero
> cookies, habanero cheese
> cake, habanero egg salad, habanero ice creame,
> habanero stuffed habanero
> with habanero cream cheese and a side order of
> habanero dipping sauce served
> with a chilled glass of habanero cabernet...
> habanero, habanero, habanero,
> habanero. It's like that Monty Python SPAM sketch.
> While I respect the heat
> of the noble hab, I also like other pepper flavors
> and heat levels too.
> 
> I got a huge rash-of-shit when I asked about the
> heat-less jalapenos. You'd
> think I'd walked into a Southern Baptist convention
> and suggested that Jesus
> was an alien (not my metaphor, I borrowed it from a
> friend). I thought this
> was the chile-head board, not the habanero-head
> board. Isn't the point of
> this group to discuss all things chile?
> 
> A lot of people say they don't like the taste of
> jalapenos, or Tabasco, or
> that mild peppers are evil, ok fine, that's your
> opinion, well here's my
> next blasphemy: I think habaneros taste like feet,
> and nasty unclean
> fungus-y feet at that. Their only saving grace is
> their heat. The flavor is
> fine when used to augment or contrast other flavors,
> but by themselves
> they're just plain nasty.
> 
> <deep breath>
> 
> Let the stoning begin.  :^)


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