So, I read this article years ago and it stated that employees of McIlhenny "Tabasco Sauce", received a CASE every month !!!
That's a lot of Tabasco Sauce.
I'm just looking for confirmation since I've shared that "Fact/assertion" with a number of people.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Not sure about the employees, but i had relatives connected out of New Iberia that had McIlhenny cousins.
We were ‘blessed’ with Kerr quart jars of the inner makings; that is, the scraping off the inside of the wooden kegs where the tabasco peppers, vinegar and salt (you know their production is in a salt mine right there on Avery Island) percolated until ‘ripe&ready’ to be bottled.
When you opened the lid, the rubber had been liquefied off the seal AND a little blue smoke would lift outta the bottle! kid u knott! some goooood stuff, had more kick than the regular Tabasco.
You know, i knew they ‘make it’, the McIlhenny’s when watching in 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark and saw a bottle on the table in the Nepal bar scene.