Did you hear the one about the couple who had been married so long that they were on their second bottle of Tabasco sauce? Marilyn This space intentionally left blank. > 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.