Hot on the tail feather’s of Devil Duck’s review of Flaming Joe’s Jerk Sauce comes my review of one of Flaming Joe’s products. I received a can of his Island Fire Tropical Fruit & Habanero Marmalade at Jungle Jim’s and I will say that he’s hit a home run with this one.

Flaming Joe’s Island Fire Tropical Fruit & Habanero Marmalade Ingredients: Sugar, pineapple with juice, mandarin oranges (orange segments, water, sugar), lemon juice, Habaneros, Jalapenos, pectin, dried green mango, dehydrated orange & lemon zest.

This British style marmalade (not to be confused with Marmaduke) is just the thing to add zing to your favorite breakfast meals! Generally I used it on waffles (regular not Belgium), and toast but found the really treat to be slathering on top of cheese blintzes. The combo was absolutely heavenly.

So let’s dig in and do the taste rundown! The pineapple is the overarching flavor that hits first then the orange and lemon zest arrives. Although it’s low on the list, orange and lemon zest tends to be quite powerful and gives this concoction the needed bitter push into the British style range. But it’s not overly bitter (god, I hate overly bitter) which is a very good thing. Up next comes the mandarin oranges (or midget oranges as I call them) which, along with mango, are a guilty pleasure for me.

It’s a little difficult to pinpoint the Habanero taste because this product is so fruity to begin with. I do detect the taste of the Jalapenos though which combine with the slightly sour taste of the green mangos. To round the tastes off the orange and lemon zest crop back up slightly and trail off into the morning sunrise.

The heat here is a nice mellow build from mild to low medium. There’s a slight middle/front of the tongue burn that ends up spreading to the back of the throat. Nice and nothing insane either. Just enough to let you know it’s there and not enough to make you do the famed “air suck”. What a perfect addition for a well balanced breakfast!

Taste: 9, Heat: 4

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