[Wonder Warthog]

"The Tabasco bottle is particularly intriguing because of what it implies about African-American cuisine and the development of the West," Kelly Dixon, administrator of the Comstock Archaeology Center who supervised the dig, told AP. "This was an exotic product, and Comstock African-Americans were apparently the ones breaking this new ground."

And what makes Kelly Dixon so sure it was "African-Americans". I suspect it far more likely to have been some New Orleans Creole gambler types. Heck, for all this twit knows, the chef at the Boston Saloon might have been a Cajun.

[Hollywoodghost]

Yes, the cook might have been Cajun--But the important thing is he was working for a black man.