One would think that this has been tried before and lost.
Just guessing, here, but New York City has connotations of highbrow culture and snootieness that serve to make the joke funnier. Plus it’s the quintessential and iconic “Big City”, in contrast to the wild ‘n’ wooly cowboys from the commercials. New Jersey has different cultural associations, that don’t work as well with the premise of the joke.
Texas Pete is a perfectly good basic cayenne sauce that has been maligned in this thread for no good reason. It’s not extremely hot which is necessary for good flavoring without burning anyone’s mouth unnecessarily, and it carries no overwhelming flavor that would conflict with other seasonings. Texas Pete is used in many Buffalo sauce recipes used by restaurants. I’m not sure why as I’m not fan of the stuff but perhaps it’s insipid quality is preferred for the great quantity of consumers who do not maintain gourmet standards in their chicken wings. Or it might be inexpensive, widely and consistently available, the hallmarks of restaurant supply products.The stuff may be ordinary but doesn’t deserve snorts and sneers at it’s mention, although maybe not much mention at all would be best.
Something about that seems a little suspect. How can 2.48M Scolville be potentially lethal, but 2.2M (Carolina Reaper) not be? Sounds like a bit of puffery to me.
I agree with this, but, save a couple comments, don’t feel like it’s been particularly maligned. I like the stuff well enough, especially on fried chicken and the like. Interestingly, in this taste test in Southern Living magazine, it came in 4/5 (1. Crystal; 2. Cholula; 3. Frank’s; 4. Texas Pete’s; 5. Louisiana), but it was remarked that “everyone agreed it was the spiciest by far.” I’m not sure if I can tell, because those all are pretty much the same heat level for me. (My own ranking of those 5 would probably be Cholula, Louisiana, Crystal, Texas Pete’s, Frank’s – but I feel Cholula is a bit of an odd-sauce-out in that group.)
I can’t agree with a lot of hot sauce comparisons, the criteria usually are very subjective. For instance some sauces could be considered spicier than others based more on the taste of the vinegar than the peppers. And including Cholula in that comparison was downright unfair. But those comparisons do tell me people have their own ideas on what kind of sauce they like, probably influenced by factors like locale and a limited number of sauces they can identify. Maybe there are some real stinkers out there but if people are eating the stuff it must have some redeeming quality to it.
Perhaps the sauce is preternaturally hot?
Um, this is Texas Pete we’re talking about 
Yeah, the other four are broadly in the Louisiana hot sauce style- vinegary cayenne pepper sauce. The two they notably left out are Frank’s Red Hot and Tabasco.
Cholula is more in the Mexican salsa picante/hot sauce style, along with Valentina, Tapatio, and Bufalo (and others I’m sure; those are the ones I remember off the top of my head).
The only bad thing about Texas Pete’s is that it’s kind of bland. It’s not funky like Tabasco, and it’s not super spicy or super vinegary either.
WTF?! Texas Pete hot sauce isn’t made in Texas?
Next thing you know, they’ll say that Moon Pies aren’t actually made on the Moon!!!
I have some bad news for you about the Mars Bar.
As a Canadian, never really had it or heard of it. But I like my extra spicy Mexican sauces, and find most cayenne pepper sauces weak*.
@pulykamell has assured me this is not always the case, and there are genuinely spicy chicken sandwiches which use it - however Canadian versions of these tend to be rather mild.
*Are we still allowed to call these unmanly? Because that was always a pretty stupid definition of machismo. Although it is true. ^^
^^Not really. Not much.
I just bought a Payday bar while getting my groceries. That means the $400 check I wrote to the grocery store isn’t going to bounce, right?
Frank’s is on there.
Not to mention Milky Way
We should all get together for a hot sauce tasting party to settle this once and for all.
I’d be up for that. I’ve been championing Crystal for decades. Texas Pete is weak sauce (sorry!) compared to the others of that style.
Yep. Put a drop onto a white plate. It looks anemic.
The real problem here is that some North Carolingians have claimed a false identity and appropriated recipes in order to deprive Texans of the benefits of their culture.
/sarcasm
Actually, the company that makes Pace Picante sauce is based in…New Jersey.
at least according to the label.