RE: [CH] consumer comment
Matt Kraft (MKraft@infotech-usa.com)
Wed, 20 May 1998 09:20:43 -0400
> -t 06:11 AM 5/19/98 -0400, you wrote:
> ->About sauce preferences -
> ->
> ->Many people new to the chile-head scene, or largely ignorant of it,
> tend to
> -->think of sauce quality only as a matter of heat intensity.
> --(clipped)
>
> --Alex,
> --I enjoyed your comments and agree wholeheartedly.
>
> --The proliferation of what amounts to private brand labels, is a
> product of
> --marketing. Most specialty shops are what I call "Label Stores."
>
> Good point. There is a good article in the latest Chile-head magazine
> about
> the re-labeling and re-marketing of hot-sauce. This can be a problem
> for the
> collector. I have about fifty different bottles all opened and all
> being used. but
> the number of sauces that I have received as gifts only to find were
> simply
> re-labeled durkee or franks would have doubled my collection. (Note I
> don't
> throw out this perfectly good hot sauce - I just make lots of wings :)
>
> I will buy a hot sauce based first taste (If I can get a taste test)
> Second
> Ingredient list. And third novelty - such as cool bottle, unique
> manufacturer
> or stratospheric heat.
>
>