{"id":100186,"date":"2017-06-01T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T23:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=188368"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T23:12:03","slug":"beyond-cholula-sriracha-and-tabasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/01\/beyond-cholula-sriracha-and-tabasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond cholula, sriracha, and tabasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00D6MU0HM\/geneexpressio-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-188369\" src=\"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/download-6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>In the United States it seems that the restaurant table top hot sauces are dominated by an oligopoly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00PACY7B6\/geneexpressio-20\">Cholula<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00CAT7TGM\/geneexpressio-20\">tabasco<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0014CSG5Y\/geneexpressio-20?th=1\">sriracha<\/a> are ubiquitous. And there&#8217;s a reason for this: <b>they are delicious.<\/b> All of them have their own unique flavor profiles, as you no doubt know. But there is a whole world of hot sauce and spice beyond these three canonical flavorings.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the Trinidad scorpion pepper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00D6MU0HM\/geneexpressio-20\">Rapture<\/a> was recommended to me by a friend, and I brought it in the office. <b>Almost immediately it became &#8220;the&#8221; office hot sauce.<\/b> It&#8217;s complex and delicious flavor, and the high spice content fueled by more than 15 peppers per bottle, have fueled an enthusiasm for hot sauces among my co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story is that readers should explore the a bit more of the world of hot sauce taste than they do right now. Don&#8217;t limit yourself to the Pepsi, Coke, and Dr. Pepper of hot sauces.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F06%2F01%2Fbeyond-cholula-sriracha-and-tabasco%2F&amp;linkname=Beyond%20cholula%2C%20sriracha%2C%20and%20tabasco\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F06%2F01%2Fbeyond-cholula-sriracha-and-tabasco%2F&amp;linkname=Beyond%20cholula%2C%20sriracha%2C%20and%20tabasco\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/google_plus?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F06%2F01%2Fbeyond-cholula-sriracha-and-tabasco%2F&amp;linkname=Beyond%20cholula%2C%20sriracha%2C%20and%20tabasco\" title=\"Google+\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F06%2F01%2Fbeyond-cholula-sriracha-and-tabasco%2F&amp;title=Beyond%20cholula%2C%20sriracha%2C%20and%20tabasco\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/2017\/06\/01\/beyond-cholula-sriracha-and-tabasco\/\" data-a2a-title=\"Beyond cholula, sriracha, and tabasco\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States it seems that the restaurant table top hot sauces are dominated by an oligopoly. Cholula, tabasco, and sriracha are ubiquitous. And there&rsquo;s a reason for this: they are delicious. All of them have their own unique flavor profiles, as you no doubt know. But there is a whole world of hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2422,1763,2584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-pepper","category-hot-sauce","category-rapture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100187,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100186\/revisions\/100187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}