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Hot Licks – Sriracha Lollipops (Yep, They Exist!)

Hot Licks - Sriracha LollipopsLollyphile’s Sriracha Lollipop…If you are someone who douses just about any food item with fiery red Sriracha sauce, you may be interested in this confection: Sriracha lollipops.

Yep, such a thing exists! They’re made by a candy company that began in San Francisco called Lollyphile. The fiery hot pops will put any cinnamon candy to shame, and the product was clearly born out of a love for the spicier side of things. From the product page…

Review – Tabanero Hot Sauce

Tabanero Hot SauceOur story started approximately seven years ago. Still a burgeoning chilehead, I recall jumping on the non-defunct Hot Sauce Blog and seeing a posted notice that there was an offer out to get a free bottle of some new hot sauce called Tabanero. From what I recollect, I bought an issue of Chile Pepper Magazine (I was not a regular subscriber then) and took advantage of the “only pay for shipping” offer.

The bottle arrived in the mail a few weeks after. I remember that the label had the word “Tabasco” in additional to the name of the sauce (which is easy to guess that it’s a blend of “Tabasco” and “Habanero”), so what registered on my head? Yep, you guessed it…I thought this was an official McIlhenny Company product before closely examining the contact info on the label. I’m sure a lot of folks made that false assumption, perhaps not even knowing that there is a state in the country of Mexico called Tabasco, let alone a chile pepper with that moniker. (Yes, there was a label change following this initial shipment, possibly because they heard from McIlhenny’s attorneys.)

But back to the product itself. I took great pleasure in Tabanero’s citrusy tang, its sharpness and its fresh vegetable notes, not unlike Marie Sharp’s. In fact, it was this very sauce that I credit for making me fall head over heels in love with the “carrot style” hot sauce genre, with subsequent examples of the style being Benito’s Original Naranja Hot Sauce and Intensity Academy Hot Cubed.

From what I understand is that in the years since, Tabanero Hot Sauce Picante has been reformulated. Let’s see if it still has both a uniqueness and a familiarity I once was crazy about…