Chili Pepper News

It’s not as if Americans hold the rights to the heat-inducing condiments market. We don’t. Even though we’ve got some serious hot sauce talent here, and aisles and aisles of sauces in every grocery store to prove it… we still can’t take all the credit. Sriracha, for example, isn’t an American creation. We need to look east for the roots of this garlicky goodness in a bottle. Harissa comes from North Africa (they claim it as their own in Tunisia where they spread this paste on damn near everything they put in their mouths).

With more states voting on the legalization (in one form or another) of marijuana, getting high is a hot topic. At the moment, you can legally use marijuana recreationally in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and, yes, Washington D.C. Medical use is legal in those states (and territory), as well as in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine. Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

There are people that can’t go without a drop or two of hot sauce on their eggs. They’ll use whatever is on the table. It doesn’t need to be that hot as long as the peppery, vinegary flavor works itself to the fore. Then there are those that call themselves chili heads. These are the people that scoff at whatever bottle of hot sauce happens to be on the table. No, that’s not completely accurate. It’s that they would need to use the entire bottle of that 4000 Scoville hot sauce to make some sort of a difference to their day.

There are a lot of good reasons to love October – especially if you already love hot sauce. Here are a few of our favorite reasons. Oktoberfest – There’s nothing like downing liters of beers with your friends while singing songs, dancing like loons, and gorging yourself on sausages and mustard. Yes, that’s what Oktoberfest is – at least in Munich, where it originates.