[CH] I could cry.
Walter Spencer (g0tuj@g0tuj.karoo.co.uk)
Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:59:58 +0100
Hi there all you Chili Heads. Just have to tell you this. By some strain of
good fortune, my wife was able to afford to buy me two bottle of HOT Chili
Sauce for my Birthday. Well it isn't every day I reach 70, so I thought, why
not?
There was not a lot of choice as it happens, so I chose Blairs Death Sauce,
which, so the label tells me, has for the main ingredients. Red and Orange
Habanero, plus Cayenne, so I thought this has to be hot. The second choice
was Blairs Hemp and Hot. Fair enough, the Chili was Jalapeno. What did I
make of them?
Blairs Death Sauce was so mild I was tempted to bin it. Only out of
deference to the wife, who spent her meagre savings to buy it, I mixed it
with some of my home brew Hab sauce. This spiced it up just a bit, but has
innevitably weakened my Hab Sauce. Drat! The Hemp and Hot cannot be in all
honesty be called HOT. It is a mockery and an insult to any Chile-Heads
palete.
Needless to say I wrote to the manufacturers to complain, but as usual there
has not been one word of explanation from them as to why these sauces were
labeled HOT when in all honesty they were so mild my pussy cat could have
used them to dress it's moustache.
We live in an imperfect world Ch's, but this is no reason for folks to go
telling us, even us poor Limey's, that their sauces are hot when they are no
such thing. Grouse over. So have a heated experience folks. One day I hope
to recieve a bottle of the real thing in my post box, when that happens I
shall tell you what a real HOT Hab sauce is like. I hope! Walt. CH#2218. An
old Chile-Head from the old country.