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Re: [OM] Pepper ID error, was: OT iPad input/output

Subject: Re: [OM] Pepper ID error, was: OT iPad input/output
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 06:09:04 +0100
:-)

Thanks, Chuck.  I have a feeling that my gut could do with a little rest from 
hot stuff, but that sounds delicious.  I might have a hunt around in this 
country, especially with the BBQ season here.

Chris

On 8 Jun 2010, at 00:36, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> My wife made "wangs" for dinner tonight and I happened to pick up the 
> wing sauce bottle and discovered I had made a serious error in 
> identifying the pepper in Buffalo wing sauce.  Many people know that 
> Tabasco is a brand name for pepper sauce but, in addition to being the 
> name of a state in Mexico, it is also a variety of the red pepper called 
> Capsicum frutescens used in the making of Tabasco sauce.  I thought that 
> tabasco peppers were also used in Buffalo wing sauce but not so.  We use 
> Frank's Buffalo wing sauce and the bottle states that Frank's Redhot 
> sauce (an older product dating to 1920) was the "secret ingredient" in 
> the Anchor Bar's original wing sauce.  But Frank's sauces are made with 
> cayenne peppers (Capsicum annuum) and not tabasco peppers.  Can't be too 
> careful about what you put on your "wangs" if you want the genuine 
> flavor.  :-)
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> No doubt they're called "wangs" some places well south of the 
>> Mason-Dixon line but, despite being covered with Louisiana tabasco 
>> pepper sauce, hot wings were invented at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New 
>> York.  <http://www.anchorbar.com/>
>> 
>> This is the history of Buffalo wings
>> <http://www.anchorbar.com/original.php>
> 

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