Food and Drink Mar 1, 2011 at 11:44 am

Public Service Announcement: Hot Sauce

Tony Perez
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The more you know, the more you will want Frank's Red Hot.
Sperpis on March 1, 2011 at 11:47 AM Report this
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Some Pico Pica wouldn't be amiss, either. But most places I breakfast with tend to at least have Cholula... are there places that don't?
tk. on March 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM Report this
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I really like the green Tabasco. And I think Cholula tastes like stomach bile.
Alison Hallett on March 1, 2011 at 11:55 AM Report this
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Aardvark or nothing.
Commenty Colin on March 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM Report this
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Aardvark, Sriracha, or the cheap Mezzeretta Habanero sauce. Tabasco is pepper flavored vinegar.
Fruit Cup on March 1, 2011 at 12:00 PM Report this
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Secret Aardvark is ideal breakfast topping. I like chipotle Tabasco alright, and don't mind Cholula at all.
Joe Streckert on March 1, 2011 at 12:01 PM Report this
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@FC +100

People who like Tabasco should be rounded up and deported to Canada!
Čẖüñđƴ on March 1, 2011 at 12:12 PM Report this
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Aardvark for sure. Now, how about giving us their other varieties as well as just the standard hot sauce? Their jerk sauce is great...
Stu on March 1, 2011 at 12:15 PM Report this
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What's wrong with vinegar-based hot sauce?? I make it sometimes. It is good.
Alison Hallett on March 1, 2011 at 12:16 PM Report this
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@Alison, some of us have killed a good deal of our taste buds in the search for the hottest hot sauce. Tabasco isn't for me, I don't find it spicy anymore (and I really like spicy). I acknowledge it's uses in Bloody Mary's, although New Deal's Hot Monkey + Dave's Insanity Sauce spice up my Bloody Mary's pretty well. I also eat Sriracha like ketchup. /sadface

Funny you mention it Chundy, my partner is from Canada and enjoys Tabasco...
Fruit Cup on March 1, 2011 at 12:29 PM Report this
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Ukuva iAfrica is the way to go!
R on March 1, 2011 at 12:32 PM Report this
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Aardvark. I also like the dark buffalo chipotle sauce.
kiala on March 1, 2011 at 12:48 PM Report this
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Chipotle Tabasco is aaawright. +1 on the Aardvark (always on hand at Cup & Saucer). Buffalo Chipotle is indispensible for tacos and other non-breakfast items. "TryMe" brand Tiger sauce is fucking awesome, but I never see it anywhere except No Fish Go Fish.
cat & beard on March 1, 2011 at 12:50 PM Report this
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@Alison, I accept Tabasco's place on a table. I know some people like it (though it seems to me that whenever another option is available, Tabasco is quickly passed over), but man...I think it's boring. A sub-par breakfast, which we all fall victim to occasionally, can be vastly improved (or drowned out) by hot sauce.
Tony Perez on March 1, 2011 at 1:14 PM Report this
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Tabasco is to hot sauce what McMenamins is to beer. Acceptable, dependable, passable, omnipresent, and sometimes boring.
Joe Streckert on March 1, 2011 at 1:40 PM Report this
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It's Bufalo with one "f." Another f would rock the boat. It's rad.
pokey on March 1, 2011 at 1:43 PM Report this
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I like Cholula a lot. And I REALLY like how it has a wood cap. How many other sauces have wood caps?
ROM on March 1, 2011 at 1:43 PM Report this
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vinegar-based hot sauces GTFO (of all restaurants)!
Čẖüñđƴ on March 1, 2011 at 1:58 PM Report this
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Screen door makes a mean vinegar sauce, i really want to steal a bottle every time I am in but they are just too darn nice to steal from.
mole harvey on March 1, 2011 at 2:22 PM Report this
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I will fight all of you. except for mole harvey.
Alison Hallett on March 1, 2011 at 3:06 PM Report this
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If you REALLY like hot sauce, you should know that different sauces are going to work better with different dishes. I enjoy Aardvark by the gallon, but it isn't ALWAYS right for the dish. Sometimes you need some cock sauce, sometimes Cholula is the way to go. Tabasco has it's place too. I love a place that has Louisiana as an option. Different strokes for different boats and different folks. You don't alway fuck the same, do you? DO YOU?
bucknroses on March 1, 2011 at 3:17 PM Report this
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Actually, I think I kind of do always fuck the same. *shrugs shoulders*
kiala on March 1, 2011 at 4:17 PM Report this
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bucknroses,
Fine. I'll try new hot sauces other than Aardvark but I refuse to break my sex routine of disrobing, wriggling, neighing like a donkey, singing the German national anthem then crying in the corner for anyone. ANYONE.

TSW on March 1, 2011 at 4:21 PM Report this
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@bucknroses. We aren’t talking about different dishes. this isn't some fucking Julia Child shit. This is a PSA to restaurateurs who serve breakfast, with available Tabasco Sauce, to hung-over people.

We want more options. Yes, fuck the original Tabasco pepper sauce. I’m cool with Tabasco green and chipotle. Aardvark and cock sauce are great but not on eggs and potatoes. I’m also good with Tapatio and Cholula. Really the restaurants in question need to go get/make themselves some red and green sauces like they have at many a Mexican restaurant. It's not that hard. Give us some fucking options.
JAx on March 1, 2011 at 4:30 PM Report this
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While we are (sort of) on the topic, does anyone know what Taqueria Los Gorditos uses for their hot sauce? I've tried to recreate it, but fail miserably. (So instead I just take about a dozen to-go sauces for every burrito I order.)
ezra on March 1, 2011 at 4:43 PM Report this
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Yes. Louisiana hot sauce please.
BruceWang on March 1, 2011 at 4:47 PM Report this
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Ezra,

What do you put in your Failiente sauce?
TSW on March 1, 2011 at 5:45 PM Report this
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@Ezra, not sure how they make it, but it's damn good hot sauce. I'm not sure if they have it at the cart, but the habanero sauce they make in the restaurant is excellent AND hot even by my standards. I'm kind of addicted to the sauce, but I wish the food was better.
Fruit Cup on March 1, 2011 at 6:19 PM Report this
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Oh I just did an online search, I take back my statement. I do not like Louisiana hot sauce, I was thinking about Crystal 'Louisiana's Pure' hot sauce.
BruceWang on March 1, 2011 at 6:21 PM Report this
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Few gringos know that Tapatío means "fuck your uncle" in Old Spanglish.
Todd Mecklem on March 1, 2011 at 8:34 PM Report this
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I don't understand this gripe. Go to Cup & Saucer. They have, like, 9 sauces on every table, but I never use anything other than the Aardvark.

Oh, and don't ever eat at Toast. Especially if you want hot sauce. They make homemade (and terrible) ketchup and call it hot sauce.
($8239f8h248cerfehjf23@&*@ebdjhb23f237OCDBO#BD*(# on March 2, 2011 at 9:30 AM Report this
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Nothing beats standard issue Tabasco in an Americanized ground meat-and-bean chili, or on an oyster. All other hot sauces have their times and places.
The Guilty Carnivore on March 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM Report this

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