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Entries for August, 2008

Blairlab still burning after one year

Biocap By Blairlab Is the Revolutionary Way to Achieve Younger Skin
From Guinness Book to How You Look: A Chili-Head’s Meteoric Rise to the Top Helps Discover the New You
HIGHLANDS, NJ, Aug 14, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Biocap By Blairlab commemorates a year of undeniable customer satisfaction, and groundbreaking positioning as the only [...]

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Passow Downs A Fellow Hippies BBQ Sauce

Continuing our tour of Australia’s fine products, I now come to The Hippy Seed Company. This company is primarily famous for their You Tube videos of reviewing various products. It’s always enjoyable to try a fellow hippies products…we’re an endangered species you know.
NagaSav BBQ Sauce Ingredients: Naga’s 2.5%, Red Savina’s 2.5%, apples, tomato concentrate, sugar, [...]

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Passow’s Weekend of Fire 2008 Trip Day 3 – CaJohn’s Open House

Welcome to part four on my coverage of the 2rd Annual Weekend of Fire. In our last edition we left off with me leaving the final day of the event. After a good nights sleep at Joe and Linda’s place (thanks guys!) I was off to CaJohn’s open house tour of his factory in Columbus, [...]

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New policy on product reviews in effect

We are constantly striving to refine the process by which we do product reviews, both for the benefit of the manufacturers who submit products and for the sake of our writers who agree to do them. We have created an official policy which will be in place as our guidelines that any manufacturer can [...]

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Welcome back, Bada Bing Bada Boom!

One of our fave sauces from our trip to the Fiery Foods Show in Albuquerque, NM way back in 2001 was the Bada Bing Bada Boom hot sauces. The company went on indefinite hiatus for quite some time, but apparently they are back!!! Their hot sauces were really damn good, so swing over [...]

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Evolution and chile peppers

Nothing like a little bio-evolutionary look at chile peppers to realize that they are more entwined in our existence here on Planet Earth than the casual observer might think. Check out this cool article from the Oregonian to see just what we mean by this:
Chile pepper heat a matter of evolution
The chile’s power to [...]

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Passow’s Weekend of Fire 2008 Trip Day 2 – Jolokia Hell

Welcome to part three on my coverage of the 2rd Annual Weekend of Fire. Last we left our hero he was heading back to the hotel for some much needed rest. I arrived at 10:45PM and slept until midnight. That’s when my roommate and everyone favorite sauce collector MSK (Mississippi Sauce King) walked in and [...]

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The Hippy Seed Co. story

(Great story submitted by our buddy from Australia, bentalphanerd, who himself is quite the chilehead and amateur hot sauce creator and aficonado)
O.K, So you may not recognise this man in a crowd, but going by the tray of Fatalli & Orange Habs in his hand you’d probably consider him a friend. If you are a [...]

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Houston Hot Sauce Festival Cancelled

Well if you were a vendor for the show, then you already received the email, however the general public may not be aware.
Unfortunately the Festival had to be cancelled this year. It would have been it’s 10th year running and it was not an easy decision for Festival organizer Carol Borge to make.
Among some [...]

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Hoppin’ Hot Habanero potato chips by D.W. Mikesell

With 30+ products sitting on my shelf to do reviews upon, the first thing I pick up is…a bag of Hoppin’ Hot Habanero potato chips by D.W. Mikesell. This wasn’t a review by design but rather by circumstance. I had actually gone to snack upon something else, only to have Linda quickly snatch [...]

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