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SHOTGUN12

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I've basically whittled my hot stuff down to 3 items...

- Sliced, pickled jalapenos (we buy 'em by the gallon).
- Tabasco sauce. Plenty of heat for my system, and I like the flavor.
- Chipotle sauce (Tabasco brand). It's not near hot as tabasco, but has a great smoky flavor that I really like. It's great on pizza.

We also have some African Birdseye ground pepper (it's basically heat with very little flavor). I bought it because I don't care for the "whang" of cayenne pepper when it takes so much to make foods spicy. Haven't used the Birdseye in a while - ha! hadn't even thought about it in a while, until this post... :D

I like some heat, but I don't want anything painfully hot. Not interested in habaneros at all (threw out the last jar we had), or anything else in that heat range.

I got nothing to prove.
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Amen brother. anything that actually hurts to eat, is something I do not need to impress anyone, or pretend to enjoy.:flamed:

There's a chili sauce brand that has a pic of a chicken on their label .... Sriracha brand, (Wal Mart)I've been using for several years now.
There's one thing I won't tolerate is these so-called chili sauces that are 75% vinegar .... like Tabasco.
I can do without vinegar on most of my my foods. I use chili sauce on food for the taste not just to burn the shiite out of my taste buds. They're already about useless after 50 years of smoking anyway.
 
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- Chipotle sauce (Tabasco brand). It's not near hot as tabasco, but has a great smoky flavor that I really like. It's great on pizza...
Thank you for the review. I've been debating buying some to try.
I use Louisiana cayenne hot sauces normally.
Also Valentina is good.
Cholula (spelling ??) tastes "earthy" to me (i.e., like it's got dirt in it), don't know why.
 

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I was told years ago that those bottles were included because the McIlhennys cut the gov't a serious deal on them. Apparently, that was because one of the McIlhennys was a Marine, and he remembered how awful the food was while he was overseas. (Seems like he was at Guadalcanal, but I could be mistaken about that.)
The very first MREs did not have the hot sauce. They truly needed something, anything to help the lack of flavor.
 

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Left over hot dogs & onions fried first, then add eggs to scramble. Serve with green or medium salsa after oral surgery. Change to hot sauce instead of salsa when recovered
 

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Remember those little bottles of Tabasco that we used to get in our MRE's? It was like the .Gov knew the the stuff was next to inedible so they threw a bottle of hot sauce in there so we could choke it down. That and about 6 squares of TP per MRE were the best part of the damn things.
The trouble with being an officer is I usually waited until my troops were fed before I got in line for the C Rats. By that time all that was left was ham n eggs.

I carried my Tabasco in my helmet cover strap with my latrine ticket.
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