Re: [CH] Peter's email

Rael64 (z42dkm@yahoo.com)
Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:49:11 -0800 (PST) 

Not to stir up any more beds, but...I have said for
years that Tabasco was the best stuff I ever found for
pouring down fire ant beds.  Works like a charm.


Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles.......
Don M.



--- Dave Drum <dirty_dave@chillicooks.org> wrote:

> 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
> 


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