It dawned on me one day early last summer, as I found myself sitting in a lawn chair in my backyard, wearing an old tank top, flip-flops, and cut-offs (okay, it was probably a skirt or jeans but if I did cut-offs, it would have been cut-offs), eating crawfish out of a paper bag and drinking a BL: Louisiana had sucked me in. Officially.
The cultural hold has gotten progressively stronger and has evidenced itself once again in my choice of food. I used to think it odd that many families around here have not just salt and pepper on their tables, but all manner of seasonings (Tony Sacheres - which I don't particularly like - being the most common) along with 19 different kinds of hot sauce readily available for all your seaoning and saucing needs. I used to scoff at such culinary foolishness, but no more! I'm in. I'm so in. I can't get enough hot sauce. It goes great on anything. I'm not talking about salsa (which also goes great on many things). I mean the good stuff: tiger sauce, tobasco, louisiana hot sauce, Frank's Red Hot (my current favorite), and the list goes on. I could drink the stuff. I could plan a menu based on what kind of hot sauce I wanted. This is getting out of hand. I've got to stop talking about it.
What else are you crazy Louisianians going to make me do? Don't say chicory. If I start liking chicory, I'll know I'm a lost cause.
CRACKLINS!
Posted by: SonofThunder at February 25, 2006 10:50 PMoh yeah...and BOUDIN!
Posted by: SonofThunder at February 25, 2006 10:51 PMMy vote is for Cholula hot sauce:
http://cholula.com
It's not from Louisiana, but then again neither is Frank's anymore. (According to their website, "FRANK'S® RedHot® grows its peppers in both Mexico and in New Mexico. The peppers are then made into a mash and aged/stored in New Mexico. After the perfect aging process has taken place, the pepper mash is sent to our production plant in Springfield, Missouri, where the product is cooked and special spices are added to give your food an unbelievable surge of flavor.")
Posted by: jon at February 26, 2006 03:22 PMI have seen several promotional bottles of hot sauces lately, as in it has a company name on it as though they produced it. The weird thing is that they don't say who actually did make it. It feels strange though to use hot sauce labeled "Thomson Real Estate"
Posted by: Patrick at March 8, 2006 08:21 PMI guess hot sauce is the new promotional coffee mug.
Posted by: Christin at March 9, 2006 09:17 AM