Matthew323
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I can't claim to be a true hot sauce aficionado.
I can recall going into a McDonald's fast food restaurant in San Antonio, Texas in the year 1976. I was at Ft. Sam Houston for my Advanced Individual Training (AIT) to become a medic in the Army. A bunch of us trainees had gone off base, and McDonald's was an inexpensive lunch.
On a sideboard like shelf on one side of the restaurant was an incredible array of hot sauces stationed next to the napkins, salt and pepper. Most of which I had never heard of before. The only one that I recognized was, of course, standard Tabasco Sauce.
That's when I realized that I was not in white bread Baltimore, Maryland any longer. I had encountered a far different culture than the one I was born into.
That set me on a course to eat spicy food that, to some degree, I am still following. Kimchee, and all kinds of spicy Korean food came along just a few months later when I got to Ft Lewis, Washington where I spent 3 years.
All these years later, I will admit to a fondness for plain, old regular Tabasco sauce.
What's your favorite hot sauce(s)?
I can recall going into a McDonald's fast food restaurant in San Antonio, Texas in the year 1976. I was at Ft. Sam Houston for my Advanced Individual Training (AIT) to become a medic in the Army. A bunch of us trainees had gone off base, and McDonald's was an inexpensive lunch.
On a sideboard like shelf on one side of the restaurant was an incredible array of hot sauces stationed next to the napkins, salt and pepper. Most of which I had never heard of before. The only one that I recognized was, of course, standard Tabasco Sauce.
That's when I realized that I was not in white bread Baltimore, Maryland any longer. I had encountered a far different culture than the one I was born into.
That set me on a course to eat spicy food that, to some degree, I am still following. Kimchee, and all kinds of spicy Korean food came along just a few months later when I got to Ft Lewis, Washington where I spent 3 years.
All these years later, I will admit to a fondness for plain, old regular Tabasco sauce.
What's your favorite hot sauce(s)?