What is Tabasco Sauce?

In order to get its original flavor, the sauce is kept in special vats made of Limousin oak. The sauce is worldwide known for its slightly sour taste and spice. The original recipe consists of mature red peppers mash, special salt and vinegar. Besides, the sauce should be kept in vats for three years and only then is it bottled. It isn't so easy.

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Steve Garton

Tricky when the main ingredients are Red Peppers and Vineger. How could really 1 be incorrect? Red Pepper Sauce from Louisianna is Cajan Sauce isn't it? Most people know its Red Peppers, or would guess that, but the vineger? Unless you've tried it, you might not know.

filmnut

Well that's amazing ! Everbody got that question correct ( so far ) ! I knew a Marine (USN) Who drank a whole bottle to win a bet.

Fred Mayes

Fred Mayes, Tabasco.

Fred Mayes

Have been to Avery Island (Louisiana) twice to tour the Tobasco factory. Avery Island is at swamp level and sits on a salt dome said to be as deep as Mount Everest is high. It is the home of the first rock salt mine in America and was operated for two centuries. It closed in 2022 following a collapse of a salt dome that killed two workers.

Carole Benner

It’s neither from what I see. It’s a hot pepper sauce made in the USA

Angel Palacios Zea

And the explanation is.....

MohamedLarbi Bouabdallah

Sounds like a notice before putting the prices up...

jshehan

filmnut, every one in my platoon had a bottle. Only thing that made c-rats edible even the pound cake.

jshehan

Debra Jacobs, stop yelling.

Michael McGavock

Not a very hot sauce mostly vinegar !!!

Blake Gillette

Crystal > Tabasco...i think my real Louisiana people will agree. 7

Kevin

I got it right as well that I should because I have had the sauce before lots of times.

Cindy J Leese Derr

Hate the stuff... But still knew the answer... Lol

Joy De Lara

My step dad would cover his steak at dinner with Tabasco. My mom would put Tabasco sauce on my thumbs and my sibling so we' d never suck our thumbs as toddlers.