John: We’re gonna go back to the hot sauce category.
Now, McIlhenny, I think, is the company—that family… The old man, I think, recently died, and it was taken over probably a few years back by the kids, and they’ve been bringing out other products than Tabasco. Tabasco sauce, which is one of the great sauces ever.
It’s a great sauce. You don’t need a lot of it. But they’ve been bringing all these experimental ones out, and I’ve been keeping track of most of them, and I do use the green sauce that they have once in a while as a very tasty sauce. Not quite as good as Melinda’s fire-roasted, but it’s good.
So, I run into one. I’ve never seen this one before. I only found it in an obscure Mexican Mercado, of all places. A Mexican store.
But this has got to be… This is some serious… In fact, they call it Seriously Extra Hot.
Adam: You haven’t done this one before as well? How come I feel that I’ve heard of this one too?
John: You’ve heard of other hot sauces. Guaranteed. Look it up, Bingit.io!
Adam: So, this is a tip of the day that’s better than the previous tip of the day.
John: No, all the tips are good. It’s just a different tip. The reason is because it comes in the regular Tabasco sauce bottle, so it’s got a black label, so you’d think it might be Tabasco sauce. It’s made with scorpion peppers. One of the hottest peppers in the world. I don’t know where they make it or if they manufacture it in the same plant they make Tabasco. It’s hard to say. I don’t know if it’s aged. But this is seriously hot, and it’s called Seriously Hot.
It’s the kind of thing that you want to buy. It’s obscure, by the way. It’s hard to find. At least I couldn’t… I just ran into it once, ever, in the wild. And for your hot pepper-loving friends, and you’ve got one or two, or if you’re one yourself, I would recommend checking out a bottle of this. It’s not expensive. It comes in a small little Tabasco sauce bottle. It looks like Tabasco sauce, but it’s not. That’s my tip of the day.
Adam: Where is it manufactured?
John: Louisiana.
Adam: And they do it with actual scorpion pepper?
John: Yeah, and it looks to be 100% scorpion pepper.
Adam: And that scorpion pepper is from grinding up scorpions?
John: Yeah. They make scorpion… No. It’s a pepper called scorpion pepper.
Adam: I’m sorry. I don’t know. I’m like, I’ve got a lot of scorpions here. Maybe I can make some pepper out of them. They’re not good for much else.
John: It looks like a scotch bonnet of some sort, only it’s got a little tail on it. I have never seen a scorpion pepper—actually seen one for sale anywhere. But I’m assuming they grow them somewhere.
These are the kind of new things that they’ve been developing—these super hot peppers. I’m not sure it’s good for the market, but for people who like this stuff…
Adam: Yes, I’m willing to try it. I’m a little bit of a pepper guy, a little bit of a hot sauce guy. Not too much, but I’m looking forward to it.
(Editors note: Don’t want to go look for obscure Mexican mercado’s? Try this one from Melinda’s)