Pretty sure Cadillac owners will be next.
New Jersey may not have provoked the same visceral response as New York City, since NJ is, after all, the garden state and headquarters of Campbells.
I have not tried this and probably never will, but it is now my favorite.
They only claim 35,000 on the Scoville scale. Wimpy.
I went looking for bad reviews of Texas Pete to justify my hate, but apparently the pepper-heads think it’s perfectly fine for what it is. Bah. It is possible I need to get over myself.
That right there is the damning quote.
But maybe you are right.
I was at a winery with a group of friends. I was pretty drunk. At one point I pontificated on how bad/mediocre the wine was. My friends all disagreed. They thought the wine was great, after all it’s a winery.
I had the last laugh. We came to find out that the winery subcontracted their wine production and worked more on running the events they had. The winery was actively looking to replace the people who were making their wine as the product was sub-par.
To me, all those Louisiana hot sauces are largely interchangeable. I, for example, don’t get the love for Crystal, but I have a bottle of it on hand, because it does the job. My first instinct is always Tabasco, because it has the funk I like the others lack, and I like Louisiana because, while milder to my tastes to the others, tastes more of peppers than the others. But, for me, these are all minor differences. I’m happy with any of them. I don’t see how Texas Pete’s is particularly different.
Texas Pete is to Tabasco as Miller is to Budweiser.
The only Tabasco around this place is the mini bottles in my travel kits. It really is the pepper sauce of last resort because of the funk. Crystal is the go-to, followed by Frank’s as far as vinegar-based Louisiana-style hot sauces go. If only Crystal made small bottles…
Not really. It has a distinct funk from the fermentation that the others don’t. Some don’t like it, as noted above, so there is an identifiable difference. It’s more like the difference between a mild cheddar and a medium aged cheddar.
Tabasco has a lot more heat, and it’s not nearly so gummy. At burger joints I like mixing Tabasco in with the ketchup for my fries. Texas Pete doesn’t work for this. So I hate it.
Tabasco definitely has more heat. Texas Pete is about the same as Crystal, and hotter than Frank’s (my least favorite of the bunch, but essential as a base for hot wings — and nothing else — for me.)
Valentinas is to Texas Pete as Guinness is to Budweiser.
Tabasco sauce only has 3 ingredients, the tabasco peppers which are a protected heirloom variety, salt, and vinegar.
Yes.
My occasions for liking some Tapatio are days where I wake up and at some point eat.
That’s closer. But probably works for this analogy. Valentina is my go-to Mexican hot sauce (black label, extra hot variety.)
Valentina is great, and I always have Sriracha on hand.
Yeah, Sriracha is one of those I just got sick of about five or ten years ago. I have it in my fridge, but I can’t remember the last time I’ve actually used it with anything. check fridge “Best Before: April 2020”. Half full. So, yeah, squares with my memory. I don’t hate it – I just don’t find myself using it for anything anymore.
Back when I could safely eat hot sauce, I always had a bottle of this around in case I really wanted something hot. It was not only very spicy, but also tasty. One of my favorites.