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Tabasco sauce is a brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers (Capsicum frutescens var. tabasco), vinegar, and salt, and aged in white oak barrels for three years. It has a hot, spicy flavor and is popular in many parts of the world.

Tabasco is trademarked as the brand name for the variety of tabasco sauce marketed by one of the United States' biggest producers of hot sauce, McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana. While there are many other kinds on the market, Tabasco is the most famous brand of "hot pepper sauce". Although it is produced in the United States, it acquired its name from the state of Tabasco in Mexico. McIlhenny Company is now in its fifth generation as a family-run business. All of the 145 shareholders either inherited their stock or were given it from another living family member.

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Quick Tip by captain. March 25, 2010

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I gotta be one of the few who doesn't like this stuff. But then again I don't like vinegar in my sauces or salsas.

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Quick Tip by evylicious. March 23, 2010

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A Quick Tip by evylicious

Tabasco on popcorn = delicious!!!

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Quick Tip by HotSauce. March 13, 2010

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Tabasco Sauce is my #1 sauce to keep on hand for Pizzas, pasta, Big Cheezits, eggs, on and on.

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Quick Tip by devora. March 13, 2010

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I put Tabasco sauce on just about everything :D

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Quick Tip by devora. September 15, 2009

A Quick Tip by devora

I put this magical stuff in just about everything. My favorite thing to do with it is put an insane amount of it in mac 'n cheese :D

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review by kfontenot. March 20, 2009

Simply The Best

What can you really say about McIlhenny's Tabasco Sauce that hasn't already been said? From Avery Island in Louisiana to your plate, it's simply the best hot sauce around. Sure, there are many other sauces out there that claim (and in many cases, rightfully so) that they are hotter than Tabasco, but for pure FLAVOR you cannot beat McIlhenny's original hot sauce. I enjoy it on scrambled eggs (three drops per egg for me), splash a little on red beans and rice, make sure that a few drops find their … more

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review by DesignDude. November 24, 2008

Overrated

I can appreciate the vast influence this sauce--which was invented and introduced in Louisiana nearly 150 years ago--has had on the pursuit of spicing food up, but I have to say its day has come and gone. Go into any souvenir shop in New Orleans and you will find hundreds of hot sauce varieties based on a simple mixture of peppers, vinegar, and salt--many of which are mere excuses for zany packaging, but many of which are far superior to Tabasco. The flavor of Tabasco is simply … more

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