You have your Blair collectibles…and your CaJohn collectibles….and even your Dave’s Gourmet collectibles.

Then there’s this one.

For quite a while, Melinda’s made a bottle that they called their Magnum, which was a 1-liter bottle which looked just like a regular bottle of hot sauce..on steroids. This bottle was one that I first saw while visiting Chili’s Fire Pit to do a little hot sauce shopping a few years back, but didn’t have the money (or the shelf-space) to pick it up at the time. I forgot about it for awhile, but was inspired one day to seek one out and see if there was any way to add one to my collection. I just imagined how swanky it would look along with the rest of my collectible bottles.

Upon calling the nice folks at Melinda’s, I was shocked to find out that these bottles were no longer in production. Apparently, these didn’t sell all that great…so eventually they stopped producing them. One of my brand new Melinda’s contacts gave me a tip that one of their loyal customers had bought up the remaining bottles, but that he might be willing to part with one (or more) for a collector such as myself.

Now enter ChileHeadEd. Ed is a chef, hot sauce collector, and now a budding hot sauce entrepreneur. Ed and I had a long conversation about hot sauces, the joy of collecting, and some of the cool people we’ve met along the way. In short, he offered to sell one to me to enrich my collection. Yup, I was giddy as a schoolgirl about it as well.

This did not go without a little tragedy, though. Thanks to the drop-kicking geniuses at UPS, the first bottle Ed shipped to me was broken in transit…turning my collectible into a pile of broken glass and hot sauce-soaked styrofoam pellets. Not what I was hoping for, to say the least.

The second shipping attemopt was flawless, and so this bottle sits on my shelf in all its glory. It’s just really darn cool. If you’re interested in getting one of these for yourself, or anything else collectible that Ed has to offer, drop me a line using our contact form and I’ll hook you up.