Not a big fan of Tabasco either (love Louisanna Hot Sauce though... LOL), but I do appreciate the donation to the men in our armed forces. http://www.fototime.com/CFE6A4005B1E365/orig.jpg Byron, You better quit them Luckies or you will end up like your buddy Cmale! I just barely remember those old green packs (saw them in movies back in the 50s). Smoked them for several years in my mid-teens. Rolled the pack up in my t-shirt sleeve 'cause looked so cool. LSMFT .... loose safe means fat tummy or loose strap means floppy t...s (50s humor) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Drum" <dirty_dave@chillicooks.org> To: "Perry C. Abernethy" <pcabernethy@comcast.net> Cc: <jim@wildpepper.com>; "Doug Irvine" <dougandmarie@shaw.ca>; "ChileHeads" <chile-heads@globalgarden.com> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [CH] Peter's email > 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. > > -- > ENJOY!!! > -------- > UNCLE DIRTY DAVE'S KITCHEN -- > Home of Yaaaaa Hooooo Aaahhh!!! HOT SAUCE and Hardin Cider > > My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with > me. -- Benjamin Disraeli > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/197 - Release Date: 12/9/2005 > >