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Subject: Excerpt Of History
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:25:44 EDT
The birth of Tabasco Sauce
" When Union troops in Louisiana occupied Avery Island and seized Edmund
McIhenny's salt mines in 1862, he and his wife fled to Texas. They returned after
the war to find that everything they owned had been destroyed, except for a
crop of capsicum hot peppers. Desperate, McIhenny decided to try to make a sauce
that he could sell to raise money. He aged a concoction of salt, vinegar and
peppers in wooden barrels, and poured in into tiny old cologne bottles. He
called his creation tabasco sauce, after Mexico's Tabasco River, because he liked
the name."
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