Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Tabasco Pepper Sauce 

What is that intoxicating aroma?

Did you know that Tabasco Sauce was originally packaged in cologne bottles... Now you do.

For a long time, there was a rumor that the first batches of Tabasco were bottled in used or discarded cologne bottles. Since then, the company has made it clear that the cologne bottles commissioned by founder Edmund McIlhenny were brand spankin' new. The bottles were then fitted with sprinkler caps (after people were found to be accidentally pouring too much onto their food!), corked, and sealed with green wax.

First bottled in 1868 by Mr. Edmund McIlhenny, it was sent just two hours away to neighboring New Orleans, and suddenly Cajun cooks had found the condiment to go with all the good stuff: red beans and rice, gumbo, crawfish étouffée, and more. Finally Southern households that didn't yet know how to season and spice with such abandon had something to bring a bland dish to life. Before long it was referred to as "that famous sauce Mr. McIlhenny makes."