Re: [CH] Peter's email
Dave Drum (dirty_dave@chillicooks.org)
Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:37:38 -0600
Perry C. Abernethy wrote:
> Boy, I can sure tell there are no Vietnam veterans or Green Berets in
> this bunch. Thats all we had to eat with our rations was Tabasco sauce!
> Man, it tasted great. They started putting it in C rations (remember
> those) and in the LRRP rations. When your in the middle of Cambodia, 5
> of you, and no one to call to call for help, what do you slrrp down-
> Tabasco sauce and a handful of wild peppers-those long thin kind.
Not a Vietnam vet. But a vet and eater of C-Rations. Where I was the
man with the garlic salt was KING! But, we didn't have no nasty arsed
Tabasco included. FEH!
Let me say, though, as the one who kicked off this s4!+ storm with my
off-hand comment of "who gives two hoots about Tabasco and its nasty
sour fermented crap" that the comments in favour of the "nasty sour
fermented crap" seem to be more rooted in tradition and nostalgia than
in any genuine liking of the product.
I do have a small bottle of Tabasco ... which is so old that the
contents have turned (appropriately enough) brown. And I do use as
much as a teaspoon full a year as an ingredient in cooking - where the
bog-nastiness is subsumed in other flavours and can actually enhance
those tastes ... much as asafoetida works in South Asian cooking. Or
fish sauce in Thai cookery.
But, when I want to add heat from a vinegar based red chile sauce and
I don't want the abundant garlic of my own stuff - I am more likely to
grab the Trappey's Red Devil or the Raven's Hot Sauce than to even
think a thought of Tabasco.
I suppose that if Tabasco were all there were available - it would get
me through ... but, it would still be like kissing my sister.
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ENJOY!!!
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