January 11 2023 Hot Sauce Fun Fact - All-Encompassing Brand Names Administrator Hot Sauce Fun Fact - All-Encompassing Brand Names People ask for a Coke, Kleenex and Tabasco... But these are brand names and not actually an all-encompassing view of what products they actually are. Tabasco is, in fact, the brand name of the American-made product, a very specific red-pep [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Cinco de Mayo Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Cinco de Mayo Happy Cinco de Mayo! This holiday celebrates the date of the Mexican army’s May 5, 1862, victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. While it is a relatively minor holiday in Mexico, in the United States, Cinco de M [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Christopher Columbus Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Christopher Columbus The Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria and Chile Peppers? Chile peppers are eaten by a quarter of the earth’s population every day, in countries all over the globe. They are perennial shrubs belonging to the Capsicum fam [..]
January 11 2023 Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Great Pyramid of Cholula Administrator Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Great Pyramid of Cholula Cholula is named after an ancient city but isn't made there... Cholula is an ancient city steeped in incredible history. It's home to the Great Pyramid of Cholula, an Aztec structure that is the biggest pyramid in the world. The 2,500-year [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Chinese Tree Shrew Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Chinese Tree Shrew The Taming of the Shrew? Or at least their heat tolerance... Can you eat as many chili peppers as a Chinese tree shrew? Probably not. A recent study found that these tree shrews are the only mammal aside from humans known to deliberately seek out s [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Chile Pepper Myth and Legend Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Chile Pepper Myth and Legend The ritual uses of the genus Capsicum range from the innocuous to the murderous, but the fiery pods are always powerful. In astrology, the chile pepper falls under the dominion of Mars, ancient god of war, so that should be some indication of r [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Peppers of Key West Pepper Mobile Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Peppers of Key West Pepper Mobile Vroom Vroom... The Chile Pepper Car! Did you know that sitting outside of Peppers of Key West Hot Sauce Shoppe is an actual car shaped like a Chile Pepper? About Peppers of Key West: Peppers of Key West is the best hot sauce store [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - The Chile Pepper Institute Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - The Chile Pepper Institute Did you know there is an actual IRL Chile Pepper Institute? The Chile Pepper Institute is the only international, non-profit organization devoted to education and research related to Capsicum, or chile peppers. Established in 1 [..]
January 11 2023 Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Chile Oil Administrator Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Chile Oil Hot Sauce or Hot Condiment? What say you about Chile Oil? Made from vegetable oil infused with chile peppers, chile oil is a staple of several East Asian cuisines, but especially Sichuan. It's typically made by adding dried red chiles (such as tsin tsin [..]
January 11 2023 Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Cayenne Pepper can Help Stop Bleeding Administrator Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Cayenne Pepper can Help Stop Bleeding Cayenne pepper can be used for first aid... Drop the band-aids and run to the kitchen: A popular natural remedy, when applied topically, cayenne pepper can help stop bleeding. The cayenne can either be sprinkled on the injury directly [..]
