For those of you out there who make your own homemade hot sauce, for personal or public use, this article from the Washingtonian.com shows you that if you make a sauce that lots of people like, then you can get the ball rolling and sell it to those who will enjoy it the most. An excerpt here:

While the District fought for voting rights on the Hill in recent weeks, a less publicized voting campaign was taking place downtown. At the corner of 15th and K streets, Pedro and Vinny’s burrito cart proprietor John Rider, who we profiled in our May issue, took name suggestions for his homemade mang-habanero hot sauce on a yellow poster board posted outside the cart. As we reported back in February, Rider got the thumbs-up from a Florida bottling plant to sell his recipe nationally, spawning a Pedro and Vinny’s sauce-naming challenge. Over the course of a few weeks, lunchers placed check marks and happy faces next to name ideas while waiting in line. “Burrito Juice” and “Mango-nero” got a few nods here and there but the winner, with over 30 votes, was “Mango Magma,” hands down.

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