I collect baseball caps, 1:24 scale Wiston Cup nascars and host sauces. I met a guy at the fiery foods show in NM who has a private collection of hot sauce topped over 1000... I tell my friends to get bent if they say anything demeaning about my hobbies.... hehehehe :-) Tom Cuneo habanersauce.com -----Original Message----- From: Donald R Jordan <drjordan@rocketmail.com> To: Jeffrey Rose <Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com>; chile heads <chile-heads-digest@globalgarden.com> Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [CH] Hot Sauce Collections ---Jeffrey Rose <Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com> wrote: > > I love to collect hot sauces (as well as making them) and have about 150 > of them proudly displayed in my basement along with other salsas and > condiments. Lately, when people see my collection, I get ragged on for the > amount of money I've foolishly spent on a stupid hobby. They sit there and > try to calculate exactly what the collection cost me and try to embarrass > me. > > I'm used to marching to my own drummer and have tastes in everything far > from the mainstream but this is starting to get to me a little bit. I > feel I shouldn't have to justify my sauces or extensive CD collection just > because they are right there for everyone to see. I don't ask others to > explain why they shell out thousands a year on expensive toys, greens fees, > ski weekends, Caribbean vacations, or Patriots season tickets. I'm > starting to think I should just keep my collections to myself. > > Does anyone else run into this problem? > > Jeffro > Jeffro's Serious Sauces > No. And you invite these people into your home? I generally avoid people who get their jollies running down other people. === -DrJ- Helotes, Texas PGP Public Key at: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x01BC316C _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com