peeve of the day

[Houston Techsan]

I think my deal with chicken and dumplins is that it is bland and tasteless. I have had it cooked by many people, over many years, and a handful of ways and I don't like it. Give me a slab of meat with some solid seasoning cooked on a Big Green Egg.

A little Tabasco spices it up nicely.

[techman05]

A little Tabasco spices it up nicely.

Haven't tried that. Should have, because Tabasco bumps everything up a notch.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

Haven't tried that. Should have, because Tabasco bumps everything up a notch.

Tabasco is for yankees. There are much better hot sauces to be had.

[PawDawg]

Tabasco is for yankees. There are much better hot sauces to be had.

Yes, Louisiana HS is much better

[Cool Hand Clyde]

Yes, Louisiana HS is much better

Louisiana Hot Sauce
Crystal's
Panola
Louisiana Gold
Siracha

Off the top of my head

[Houston Techsan]

What is in all the others. Tabasco contains red pepper, salt and vinegar. Their green sauce contains all sorts of other stuff. I believe the Louisiana Hot Sauce is the same as regular Tabasco. Don't know about the others. Just looked it up and Sriracha and it contains the same with garlic, except it says a paste of chili peppers. What's in the paste? Evidently Sriracha is so hot its smell upsets the neighbors. Every year there's a new hottest pepper. One year it was habanero and now it's not. And there are always new hot sauces coming out. Everyone to his taste.

[Dwayne From Minden]

Those who don't value guard play come tourney time...

Strong guard play wins in March, not big plodding interior players

[Champ967]

Louisiana Hot Sauce
Crystal's
Panola
Louisiana Gold
Siracha

Off the top of my head

Sure, if you like sweeteners and preservatives in your sauce.

Peppers + salt + vinegar = Tabasco. Simple, beautiful, exquisite.

You can keep your xantham gum and MSG.

[Blue Dawg]

Recently I've been preferring more dry spices, like Slap Ya Mama

[Cool Hand Clyde]

Sure, if you like sweeteners and preservatives in your sauce.

I like my sauce to taste great. Tabasco does not.

[Cool Hand Clyde]

Recently I've been preferring more dry spices, like Slap Ya Mama

Has anyone tried Beazel's? Hear lots of accolades on the world wide web.

[Houston Techsan]

I like my sauce to taste great. Tabasco does not.

In your opinion. Taste is a matter of taste. Is that redundant? My brother used to take the jalapenos off his nachos. What's to taste. It's peppers, salt and vinegar. It's hot. They're all hot. Some more than others. Now we have hot sauce snobs. This started about chicken and dumplins (?). If you think it's too bland, as some do, just add a little hot sauce of your choice.

Let's start a real argument, since it is a peeve of mine. The word gumbo means okra in some west African language, so how can it be gumbo without okra? I read somewhere you could cook it with file as the thickener instead, but according to the specialist (Mr. Blacken himself) if you put the file in while cooking it makes it "ropey", whatever that means, but I trust him. No one wants "ropey" gumbo.

[inudesu]

The word gumbo means okra in some west African language, so how can it be gumbo without okra?

"Gumbo" without okra is soup.

I think we've actually discussed this on BB&B before (as with most things, nothing new under the sun and all that).

[Houston Techsan]

"Gumbo" without okra is soup.

I think we've actually discussed this on BB&B before (as with most things, nothing new under the sun and all that).

Okay, so what if the horse it dead? Has that stopped us before?

[Dwayne From Minden]

Okra is only meant to be fried....