Sunday, June 6, 2010

Can you say..."MOTHER OF ALL HOT SAUCE COLLECTIONS" Part 2

This is installment 2 of a 3 part interview with Vic Clinco. Vic may have the largest Private Hot Sauce Collection in the United States. There is one we could find that was larger with Peppers.com...but it is a company collection. It is impressive at over 6,000 bottles from some research online. However, they don't have Sweet Life Sauce Company Hot Sauces in their collection...

Vic does...

Vic wins!

Funny how we crossed paths with a simple purchase of BooDreaux's Cajun Rocket Fuel and Screamin' Peaches Hot Sauce...

We present you part 2 of our interview with Vic Clinco...Hot Sauce Collector Extraordinaire!

Sweet Life Sauce Company: What are some of your favorites...your go to brands of Hot Sauce?

Vic Clinco: For the everyday all purpose Hot Sauce I always have some Crystal or Louisiana Hot Sauce around. From there, I really dig CaJohns...especially their Holy Jolokia out now...man I love that stuff. Then there is Toluca Gourmet and their Jalapeno and Habanero Hot Sauces...Danny Cash Hot Sauce out of Colorado is one of my favorites...great flavors and heat with their products. One more would be Scotty B's Gourmet Hot Sauces out of San Diego.

Sweet Life Sauce Company: Nastiest Hot Sauce?

Vic Clinco: Easy one...there was a line of hot sauces thrown together from a not to be named professional sports league...the stuff they put in those bottles is flat out nasty...nothing good to say about that line other than you can get a cool label with your favorite team on it. Yuk.

Sweet Life Sauce Company: Best Hot Sauce to put on Vanilla Ice Cream?

Vic Clinco: Hands down...Denzel's Mom's Apple and Cinnamon Habanero Hot Sauce...hands down. I'm not sure if it is still being made but it goes really well with some ice cream.

Sweet Life Sauce Company: So I'm going to look for a good Hot Sauce to pair with a Red Wine...say a heavy Cab or a Shiraz...what would you suggest?

Vic Clinco: Oooohhhh....CaJohns Holy Jolokia...great flavor and heat that will blend well with the tannins of a good Red. Definitely.

And so goes part 2 of our interview with Vic Clinco. We hope you are enjoying the read. In our third and final installment of our interview with Vic we're going to find out:

  • What Vic won't put Hot Sauce on...it's a pretty short list.

  • The finer points of moving the country's largest private hot sauce collection across 3 time zones...and the over under on how many were broken doing so.

  • The Oldest Bottle of Hot Sauce in his collection.

  • Life choices...Hot Sauce or....
Until then, enjoy lots of Hot Sauce...especially our two at Sweet Life Sauce Company: Boodreaux's Cajun Rocket Fuel and Screamin' Peaches Hot Sauce.


Soon to be some of Vic's Favorites!

All is well in the land!

Get your SAUCE!

Rob W.

Owner and Founder

Sweet Life Sauce Company


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