I hear the flight deck guys on aircraft carriers use crystal a lot too, but I don't think it's a hot sauce.Yes, I used Crystal a lot when in the Navy...I used the Tabisco name in a generic sense for pepper sauce.
I hear the flight deck guys on aircraft carriers use crystal a lot too, but I don't think it's a hot sauce.Yes, I used Crystal a lot when in the Navy...I used the Tabisco name in a generic sense for pepper sauce.
Those were bennies, not crystal meth! Get yur drugs right!I hear the flight deck guys on aircraft carriers use crystal a lot too, but I don't think it's a hot sauce.
So is Tapatiobetter than Tobasco when making hot corn? (Sweet corn, tobasco, and butter)
Having never done any, I get them confused easily.Those were bennies, not crystal meth! Get yur drugs right!
I lived in New Orleans for a dozen years, and what I observed is that tabasco was used by the tourists. There were dozens of other brands popular with locals.
That is interesting. I haven't been to NO since the early '90s. At that time Tabasco was everywhere as in the recipes used. I collect creole cookbooks that go back decades further and the recipes call for tabasco. Granted tabasco was distributed far and wide for mixed drinks, but these recipes were from southern women from the Deep South including NO. I'd be interested in which hot sauces were used and for which dishes during your time in NO.
If anyone here lives in NO and has survived the conference championship and has a hot sauce they use to cook with please chime in!![]()
I see Crystal here as well as Louisiana brand hot sauce in many restaurants but both are are milder and taste the same to me but are not the flavor of tabasco. Don't misunderstand I do like the flavor of both Crystal and Louisiana brand hot sauces and will gladly use them in the absence of tabasco. However I won't cook with them. For me tabasco's flavor is essential for many dishes. Personal preference as it is.My favorite of straight Louisiana style hot sauces is Crystal. That is very popular in New Orleans, or at least was prior to the flood. Made in town, and present in virtually all non-tourist restaurants - and often even in those. Not easy to find here in the Phoenix area, unfortunately. I used to be able to, not so common now. When I lived there from 1987-1999 it was available at all the small restaurants, the places locals would go to. As I said, tabasco was around too, but seemed to be mainly used by tourists.
Oh, and not relevant to the flavor, but the producers of tabasco are the ones who introduced nutria to south Louisiana. They wanted to breed them for their fur. A hurricane came, breaking the holding pens, and they are all over now, looking like 3 foot long rats and damaging the many drainage canals in the area.