There are different varieties of Tabasco brand but the flagship, classic Tabasco to me is hard to process as a taste, it’s like it’s thin and almost weak on the front end and then builds on you, saving the heat for later when you don’t need to taste it anymore. My personal go-to is Crystal as I posted earlier, very versatile, plenty of cayenne mmmm goodness, slightly smoky, slightly sweet, thick enough to use as a condiment, and it’s cheap, did I mention that it’s cheap? I don’t dislike Texas Pete, I’ve even had T. W. Garner himself come up and thank me for using his product before while eating in a cafeteria years ago, cool old guy, took great pride in his products. It is vinegary though, so where it works is a little constrained by that.
Tabasco Tale......
I am a great fan of the author W.E. B. Griffin. He included General McInerney who was commandant of the Marine Corps as a character in some of his books. The General who is a real person is from Avery Island and his family makes Tabasco
Knowing this, while in the area, we visited the island. It is separated from the mainland by a very short and narrow bridge. There is a toll to cross.
The McInerny family has the Tabasco cooking facility on the island. During the tour you learn of all the various types of Tabasco including some very small bottles included in military rations.
At the end of the tour, you end up in a big store that sells all the various tabasco and every kind of tabasco product you can imagine. T shirts, aprons, coffee mugs, clocks and on and on.
Outside they have a food truck where you can buy jambalaya and file gumbo that is to die for.
At some point, while working on the village that houses Tabasco employees and pepper farm hands, salt was discovered. That is the whole place sits on a humongous salt deposit. They began to mine and sell the salt.
At some point in the salt mining operation, they discovered that under the salt, there was an ocean of crude oil. They drilled for and then extracted oil.
The island is a place of true natural beauty with live oaks and spanish moss. Tourists came. They established a kind of theme park for which admittance is charged.
It is all owned and operated by the family. It is just an island to look at it but in reality it is a gold mine
I also like Frank’s. I put that sh*t on everything.