If you’re a hot sauce purveyor or collector like we are, we’re quite sure you have bottles in your collection from the ones listed in this article:

Scary hot: Clever names add fun to wild variety of hot sauces
Thursday, February 7, 2008
By Jeff Wilkin (Contact)
Gazette Reporter

A giant spider on the movie screen means trouble.

So does a small spider on a bottle of hot sauce, according to Charlie Schandelmayer. In both cases, the long-legged crawlers are supposed to scare people.

“It’s not a good idea, from our perspective, to put a friendly label on an unfriendly product,” said Schandelmayer, owner of Sauce Crafters, a Florida-based manufacturer of bottled heat. “You have to put a message on there that says, ‘This is going to bite you.’ ”

In this case, “unfriendly” means extremely hot liquid for taste buds. Charlie puts a spider on every bottle of “Widow” he makes in Riviera Beach; one drop of the potent pepper potion is the right dosage for a large vat of chili con carne or jambalaya.

While some people choose Schandelmayer’s products for their food-warming capabilities, other people just want to have dangerous-sounding labels in their pantries. That’s part of the fun shopping for hot stuff — the names are often creative, occasionally obscene and generally entertaining.

Examining names — if not sauces — may help warm people up as winter begins its stretch run in the Northeast. Here are some we can print: “Spontaneous Combustion,” “Kiss of Fire,” “Bottled Hell,” “Vampire,” “Goddess of Fire,” “Weed Killer,” “Mo Hotta, Mo Betta,” “Possible Side Effects” and “Liquid Stoopid.”

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