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Semitruck spills 40K pounds of Frank’s RedHot sauce on Ohio highway amid heatwave
NY Post ^ | 7/05/26 | Zoe Hussain

Posted on 07/06/2026 2:55:05 AM PDT by Libloather

The heat was Frank-ly unbearable.

A semi-truck leaked a whopping 40,000 pounds of sticky Frank’s RedHot sauce onto an Ohio highway amid a brutal heatwave last week.

The truck carrying loads of the popular condiment began leaking while traveling north on Interstate 71 in Delaware County on Thursday, leaving a trail of the spicy sauce on the roadbed before its driver realized, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

The driver eventually pulled into a truck stop as fire crews followed the trail of the bright-red mystery fluid to find its source.

“Our crews were out on the highway trying to track it down and actually were able to follow the trail to the Pilot,” Berkshire, Sunbury, Trenton & Galena Fire Chief Chris Kovach told the outlet.

After learning that the substance was Frank’s RedHot sauce, fire crews were forced to call in the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, according to local reports.

Due to the hot sauce’s acidity, flushing it into waterways could pose environmental risks. Instead, crews had to use containment protocols and hazmat materials to stop it from spilling into drains.

Kovach told the outlet that the trucking company will have to arrange for a cleanup company to properly address the spill.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Local News; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: franks; heatwave; hotsauce; ohio; redhot

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To: Libloather

I put that shick on everything, including asphalt


21 posted on 07/06/2026 4:28:29 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Libloather

22 posted on 07/06/2026 4:40:56 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ComputerGuy

Been awhile since I had Frank’s

Louisiana Hot Sauce

Yummy 😋😋😋


23 posted on 07/06/2026 4:46:54 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Libloather
You can put that stuff on anything.

Including ROADWAYS...

24 posted on 07/06/2026 5:28:10 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: ComputerGuy

“ My brother even puts the stuff on his scrambled eggs.”

Since I pretty much lost my sense of taste due to Covid, I put Franks and hotter sauces on my food. Unfortunately, when I eat wings, I have to use Carolina reaper hot sauce to get some flavor.


25 posted on 07/06/2026 5:53:36 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Quiet! Quiet Piggy!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

My taste has pretty much deserted me over the last 6 months or so. I haven’t been sick or anything, so I don’t know why.
Maybe it’s an age thing.


26 posted on 07/06/2026 6:00:03 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: SaveFerris
You forgot:

Trump's Fault...🤓

27 posted on 07/06/2026 6:00:44 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: Libloather

Won’t in evaporate or dissipate naturally?

After the Alaskan Valdez oil spill the conclusion and hot wash after the incident was that they probably did more harm to the environment cleaning it up than if they would have had let it chemically broken down and disapated naturally.

A similar conclusion was applied to the drilling rig
Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The DWH spill washed ashore and was absorbed naturally by the alluvial plain lessoning overall impacts.

The employment of “critters” to feed off the spill is also very important to this process.


28 posted on 07/06/2026 6:22:04 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't takin' no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Libloather

29 posted on 07/06/2026 6:23:29 AM PDT by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council - "Frog; the other green meat.")
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To: ComputerGuy

“I don’t care much for Frank’s or Texas Pete.
I prefer Sri Racha sauce for its flavor, which is garlic.
A single drop is usually all it takes for me.”

Louisiana hit sauce = cayanne peppers, vinegar, & salt... anymore ingredients than that is blasphemous... Tabasco’s have their own special blessing.


30 posted on 07/06/2026 6:27:46 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't takin' no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Clutch Martin

“Won’t in evaporate or dissipate naturally?”

Back 100 years ago great quantities of oil leached out of the sand off the coast of Beaumont TX. The VOC’s evaporated and covered the beaches with tar balls.


31 posted on 07/06/2026 6:37:34 AM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: Clutch Martin

My wife and I visited New Iberia, just so she could see where Tabasco was made. We were living in BTR at the time and hot sauce was like a religion down there.


32 posted on 07/06/2026 6:52:45 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: Adder
Oh for pete’s sakes...

No. That's a different brand.


33 posted on 07/06/2026 7:13:31 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: abb

Confirmation on the Crystal Hot Sauce. Hoes great on Harold’s fried chicken. We are a Crystal hot sauce, though my son goes with Trappey’s Red Devil. No Durkee/Frank’s here.


34 posted on 07/06/2026 7:15:19 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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35 posted on 07/06/2026 8:02:30 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: SaveFerris

They need to wreck a milk truck at the same site to help.


36 posted on 07/06/2026 8:03:57 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: ComputerGuy

I like Franks and the garlic of Sriracha, I think is how it’s spelled

Good on everything!


37 posted on 07/06/2026 8:29:52 AM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multi issue voter in)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

That’s bad. I’d show it to my cat but I’m afraid to wake him.


38 posted on 07/06/2026 8:40:58 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: ComputerGuy
My brother even puts the stuff on his scrambled eggs.

So do I. I got it once when the store was out of Tabasco sauce and I've been a fan ever since.

39 posted on 07/06/2026 8:47:23 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: AlaskaErik

I’ve always thought that Tabasco had the best flavor, but it’s just too hot for me.


40 posted on 07/06/2026 8:51:00 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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