Best in Class

Nov 25, 2008

by DesignDude

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For spicing up a Mexican meal, moving on from the catch-all hot sauces like Tabasco (which generally taste pretty good with a variety of foods, including Mexican food), Cholula is a great place to land. The primary distinction that separates this sauce from the above-mentioned vinegar-based sauces is a thickness that more closely resembles a finely blended salsa. Cholula's main contender in this space is Tapatio, and you will often see both bottles going head to head on tables in both mom-and-pop taquerias and larger Mexican food chains. Other lesser (but occasionally quite distinctive) brands like Pico Pica, Bufalo, and La Victoria can't hold a candle to Cholula.

Against the competition, Cholula is a far more complex sauce. It tastes like a notable blend of peppers was added to the mix and generally comes off significantly more fresh than even Tapatio. A slightly higher price point also suggests that a little more effort is put into the production of the sauce, and the packaging, which includes a wooden cap, is far more appealing than anything next to it on the shelf.

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kjmedia March 22, 2009

nice review designdude,,, i'm a huge fan of cholula, it's been my favorite for some time.. i've often joked that the woman on the cholula bottle is seeing the man on the tapatio bottle, lol... hey, if you ever see Marie Sharp's Habenero Pepper Sauce, definitely give it a whirl. it is pretty hot, i would get your feet wet with the 'mild' version. it is a product from belize that i discovered while there on a recent vacation. it is made basically of vegetables, carrot to name one, and the habanero pepper. i brought some back, finished it and just reloaded from this site, www.drchilepepper.com. for the time being, it has even put cholula on the back burner for me,, uh oh, look out, the tapatio man might be eyeing mrs. sharp's, haha...

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Cory O'Malley (DesignDude)

I'm a community manager at Lunch and think I know a thing or two about quirky industrial design, indie rock, lowbrow art, contemporary British authors, Mediterranean cuisine, chihuahuas -- pretty much … more