Do you mean instead of regular pizza sauce, or in addition to it?
It’s very common to see a bottle of hot sauce as one of the condiments available at a pizza-by-the-slice place in Ontario (in addition to red pepper flakes), so that doesn’t shock me.
Does no one remember the commercial?
Hogarth and Silenus,
Thank you, I guess it is a “thing” after all and not my hallucination.
Red pepper flakes…I knew about that one but hadn’t seen anyone actually put Tabasco onto a pizza on this side of the Pacific.
When I visited Kolkata, India the pizza had chili powder on it so liquid hot sauces overseas wouldn’t surprise me.
In other pizza-related infotainment:
On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz completed the first documented commercial Bitcoin purchase, paying 10,000 for two Papa John’s pizzas. Valued at $41 at the time, current market pricing today gives the purchase a $92.5 million price tag.
I’ve seen so many college students shake (a lot of) tabasco or siracha sauce onto their pizza that I consider it a common topping.
(in addition to sauce, the pizza’s been delivered or picked up)
FWIW my Tabasco-as-surprise-Pizza-sauce story dates from 1992. Things change…maybe this trend migrated to the USA. After all, Japanese restaurants, such as Sushi shops, also became common in USA during the same 1990 - 2020 timeframe.
Thank you all, ignorance fought etc.
Buffalo chicken pizza is pretty common; I’ve seen it on CiCs’ buffet.
Sorry, apologies for my USA-centric posting, especially seeing that Hogarth saw Tabasco as Pizza sauce in Ontario. By “USA” please interpret it to mean “…the West” including NA, SA, EMEA, etc.
According to the Extreme Tech website, Mercury is not only the closest planet to Earth, it is the closest planet to all the other planets in the solar system.
Huh? Those are terrible comparisons. I’ve been putting some version of hot sauce on my 3rd slice since the early 80’s. The first 2 slices are topped with garlic powder and red pepper. The 3rd and 4th get a nice slathering of Sriracha (if available). I’ll even add some ghost pepper sauce if in the right mood. And I’m surrounded by the best pizza on this planet.
This is certainly an interesting fact, but not really shocking when you think about it. My follow up question would be: if the sun was a planet, would it be closer to every other planet, or would it still be Mercury?
The default red sauce on pizzas in Singapore tastes only a bit like the default red sauce in Naples or from Domino’s. It tastes more like a default red sauce in Singapore: it’s always got a bit of chili in it.
Piffle. they were breaking speed records regularly back then. My idea of an interesting random fact is a record breaker who went on to play a role in a James Bond movie. that was test pilot Peter Twiss. He operated a boat that was from the same company that built the plane he broke the speed record in.
Imagine watching the movie and talking about how great the boat is when they suddenly realize who is operating it.
You mean the Fifth Beatle? 
I can see their reasoning, but I don’t particularly agree with it.
Technically, it’s not their reasoning but that of Tom Stockman, Gabriel Monroe, and Samuel Cordner, who published the article they reference in Physics Today. I haven’t been able to find out what their qualifications are, though.
THAT’S the joke…!
Epstein was called the Fifth Beatle. Now, since there are two Beatles in heaven, he’s nicknamed The Third Beatle.
Aw, jeez!
Epstein passed away in 1967 before all the rest of them. I believe the joke was based on Murray the K as the 5th Beatle until he became the 4th in 1980.
Are you saying that he wasn’t the first? If so, who was?