Wow! One week into our charity fund raising efforts and we’ve already far surpassed last year’s total. Thanks to all of you who have pledged on our Firstgiving site and those who have bought the collectible hot sauce entitled “Epidemic Proportions.”

For those of you curious about the collectible bottle, they’re loaded, sealed and just waiting for their labels and wax to make them complete. We hope to have pictures of them soon to post to show the world what these swanky-cool bottles look like. There are plenty of bottles left for purchase, so email us through our CONTACT FORM if you’d like to reserve one.

The most frequent question we have about the bottles is how to pay for them. We have finally gotten our Paypal account configured to do the payments, but we are also willing to give Google Checkout a try as well. We only have experience with Paypal, but Google Checkout may be a little cheaper to use in terms of the fees. If anyone has a particular preference one way or another, do let us know.

Also, we’re happy to announce a couple of new sponsors who have joined up to support this project with donated products. Here they are:

Epic Valley Salsa
Uncle Big’s Fiery Foods/Droolin’ Devil
Insane Chicken
Dave’s Gourmet
Tahiti Joe’s Hot Sauce

These companies will have products available as part of our auctioned hot sauce/spicy food care packages, which we’ll start posting for sale next week. Stay tuned for more information on that.