[CH] Too Hot To Handle
Rob Solarion (solarion@1starnet.com)
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 01:57:51 -0600
THESE SAUCES ARE TOO HOT TO HANDLE AT FAIR
By Linda K. Wertheimer
The Dallas Morning News, 27 September 2002
Dianne Harris had hoped to make them laugh at the State Fair of Texas with
her "Bomb Laden Mad Blast Habanero Hot Sauce".
The owner of Hot Sauce Harry's draped the cap of a bottle of sauce with a
handcrafted turban and put a handcrafted caricature of Osama bin Laden on
the label.
But the Texas Department of Agriculture isn't laughing.
On Thursday, Allen Spelce, an assistant commissioner, banned the hot sauce
and four others by the same Dallas vendor from a Food and Fiber Pavilion
display.
"If it was tastefully done, it wouldn't be banned," he said.
"It won't hurt our business," Mrs. Harris said. "People will laugh."
The other banned sauces: Flippin' The Bird, EnWRong Shredded Sauce,
Dynamite Hot Sauce and Hot Lips Hot Love Sauce.