My favorite hot sauces are Cystal, and McIlhenny Co. they have a distinct flavors from each other, I'm a little bias towards them because they come from LA, it's all a matter of opinion but I haven't yet come across a hot sauce better than those that come from Louisiana. I use Hot Sauce on all kind of foods: Chinese (chicken lo mein), Italian (pizza), Mexican (quesadillas) - it's a universal sauce! Just for the heck of it I looked up the SHU for the hot sauces mentioned.

Hot Sauces rated by Scoville Heat Units
Original Tabasco Pepper Sauce, from McIlhenny Co. 2,500 - 5,000 SHU
Frank's RedHot XTRA Hot: 2,085 SHU
Texas Pete: 747 - 1,000 SHU
Frank's RedHot Original: 450 - 900 SHU
Crystal: 400 - 800 SHU (2,000 - 4,000 SHU - I had two different sources with two totally different ratings but I think it's 400-800 because it's a mild hot sauce.)
Original Louisiana Hot Suace (red dot) n/a - I couldn't find its SHU rating.

Good stuff man.
Yea I wasn't really rating them in order of just hotness.
The idea behind hot-sauce isn't really how spicy it is (unless you're a novelty hotsauce person)... it's about a balance between ideal heat and good flavor so that either doesn't overpower the other, and whether the sauce is compatible with a large variety of application.


Tobasco has a good heat/flavor comparison, and the consistency of the sauce is such that it "coats" lightly and mixes easily. And it's potent enough that you don't have to use much to get the flavor.

People get the wrong idea about hot sauce when they judge it by how much their mouth is burning off. Hot sauce isn't there to torture you. It's there to enhance the flavor and heat of your food without choking the flavor of your food. So with that in mind, you use it in moderation. But using a good hot sauce allows you to do all this effectively.

i didnt know this,...thats amazing

You should go to the Tobasco website.
Although they don't show all the awesome pictures of their production site and the tour grounds.

It's a really beautiful place.
And there are a lot of alligators that are kinda tame... you can actually go up and touch some of them if it's the right time of day when they're sleepy. :)

I need to go this summer and take pictures. The Oak trees, stone trails, ponds, the bird sanctuary, the Buddha temple... it's amazing.
Great place to smoke a spliff and just relax outdoors.

^ Any Umpa Lumpas in the factory?

You two are funny. I live in a city where white people really are less than fifty percent of the population—unlike mostly-white London and Birmingham—and I don't consider it particularly diverse or striking in any way. I'm pretty sure most big cities in my country don't have a white majority.

There are no blacks in here, there's only Asian browns.
I always find it unusual to see a black person. Can't say I'm surprised, Lebanese people are awfully racist.

Really, what would you consider "particularly diverse" then?

You should see Vancouver right now. The whole world is here..it's odd.

Depends what part of London you go to.

You go somewhere like Leytonstone and you'll find it's virtually all Indian & Pakistani.
Go somewhere like Richmond and it's virtually all white middle/upper class.

Ever heard of Los Angeles? Orange County might be ninety percent white but L.A. is the crossroads of every major ethnicity in America (which is basically every major ethnicity in the world). The only city I can think of that would come close to L.A. is Dubai, and only for the heavy migrant labor that fills the service industry.

Yup. I'd say Dubai too.
There are no locals there.

A wide variety of different types of people, what else.

New York is easily more diverse than L.A., not sure how it stacks up against a city like Dubai though.

relatively speaking, its not that far away,...i've decided i' must see all of this

so i've decided i will do that while in La for jazzfest

In Buffalo, we get down on Franks all day. In FL, its pretty much Crystal or Texas Pete. When eating mexi food its Cholula and Tapatio. I'll never enjoy Tobasco.

I actually just made a relish yesterday consisting of Habanero, Jalapeno, Poblano, Hungarian Wax, Cayanne, and a few other ingredients. Surprisingly, it is not unbearably hot, but delicious.

Thanks for the replys,guys.Sorry I sounded so ignorant,but ive just had bad experiences.I didnt mean to sound like I was generalizing. No,Mexico is pretty diverse.Each part of mexico is really different.The northern mexicans seem to be cowboyish and a lot are light complected,I think due to France attacking that part and them getting all mixed up. The southerners are also light,most mixed with spanish,then you have the darker shades who are found in Puebla,veracruz etc.Each part of mexico also has their own style of food,clothing,but in the end we all like beans.LMAO

Hey people in the UK!

These look positively delectable, are they?

http://sorrydadenglandisweird.files....scotchegg.jpeg

It looks positively artery-clogging.

want

I wish we had food like that in romania heh

anyway..what's the regular income for a musician in different places? around here there isn't much sense in striving to be a musician unless you're going to sing really horribly.

(they're called manele...it's sort of trash talk about money, cars and women by short, fat people who are practically rich and don't know the language)

It looks kind of gross and appetizing at the same time. What's that second layer? It looks like Spam or something. Well, it's almost 2:30 pm and I haven't had my lunch yet, so anything looks good at the moment.

It's sausage meat

.. AKA leftover lips and assholes.

Whatever it is it looks nasty.

I think it looks pretty good, actually. I'd eat it and probably ask for another.

Food with crust is usually good, I think.

It's not the crust that's the issue for me, it's the egg.

It's called a scottish egg for those of you who didn't know.
If you were wondering it's a boiled egg encased in yummy sausage and topped with bread crums then fried.

I was actually thinking about making some if I were able to get ahold of a deep frier.

It's actually a perfect candidate for this site:

This is why you're fat.

Poutine sandwiches are absolutely amazing. Poutine itself is the best thing ever! Just proves that I'm 1000000% Canadian. Too bad it's loaded with calories...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr....ia2eJ%2FNP0%3D

^ The only thing I remember from my two trips to Canada is the Poutine. Genius.

Those eggy things are excellent, i had no idea they were called "scottish eggs" though, but nevertheless theyre great :).

Scotch Eggs is the correct term. I can't stand them as I hate eggs but they are only a snack and not our staple diet!

Hey I hate eggs too! :beer:

Or did we already discover that?

Scotch eggs are awesome, this local brewhouse/pub in my hometown makes some of the best. Although they may be slightly "American-ized".

That bacon mug looks amazing.

Also, for the record, Scotch eggs rule.

I go to school in Ohio but I will be studying abroad in Lux next year so I'll be sure to count on MB for some advice...

can't say i've seen the sandwich version before, out here on the atlantic coast we have poutine pizza. yeah wrap your head around that pile of awesome. :pimp:

although personally my favourite poutine is something called the 'Day and Ross' from a local truck stop, named for the moving line. it's something like most of a bag of fries and most of a pound of ground beef and mozzarella swimming in gravy. i usually get mushrooms and onions added to mine to counterbalance the foolish amounts of salt contained within. they also serve that thing on a platter (rounded over) instead of a plate.

someone posted a link to 'this is why you're fat', my previous paragraph should be on 'this is why you had a heart attack'.

There's a small corner diner here in downtown Toronto that serves poutine sandwiches. I guess they're kind of like those hot chicken sandwiches, only with fries and cheese :D

Poutine pizza? Never heard of it before but it sounds good.

And that truck stop poutine sounds really good, but yeah it is probably really bad for you :) Sounds like it would be really salty with all that gravy and the fries!

If I ever take a trip to Scotland I'll be sure that you'll treat me.