Siracha!
That stuff is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tasted some Tabasco brand Siracha at the hunting camp just because it was there and I had never tasted Siracha before. I am hooked!!!!!!!!!! Put it on grits, eggs, beans, rice vegetables, hamburgers-hell it might even taste good on cornflakes!!

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You must have led a very sheltered life. I've seen one of my fishing buddies try it on vanilla ice cream.

It's great stuff Caj, we use it on all sorts of food. Mmmmmmmmmm
Dave
SWCA#2778

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mr mom
Fire Chief, Retired

Well it's only been widely known for a few years. Originated in California in 1980 by a Vietnamese immigrant. All their sales are word of mouth, no advertising. It gained popularity when Bon Appétit magazine did an article about it

I fell in love with Sriracha in the 80's. One of the two most precious liquids on earth, the other being beer.

I use it like ketchup on everything from eggs to pop-tarts.

I use a 28 oz bottle every 10 days. I literally can't eat without it.

Try this.

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Tobasco brand may not be too authentic. Get the stuff with the green top in the squeeze bottle, with the rooster on it. Hy Fong or whatever. If I bring Chinese take out home, the Sriracha will be handy. I use it on lots of other stuff, too.

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Wayne
Torn & Frayed

It is good straight up on saltine crackers.

Oysters on the half shell...It is sehr gut.

I've seen sriracha on tables of some Chinese restaurants next to the soy sauce, but have never tried it. Maybe I will now. My favorite food accompaniment is a cheap red hot sauce ("San Luis" brand) imported from Mexico that sells for $1.08 for a quart bottle at the local H-E-B. It's great stuff, far better (and far less expensive) than Tabasco or Cholula. It's just thick enough to stick to whatever you apply it to, and doesn't run off like Tabasco. It's especially good on corn-on-the-cob (along with mayonnaise) and hamburgers. I carry a small bottle of it everywhere and keep them in the glove boxes of both cars.

I put sriracha on my sriracha . . .

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For those of you who haven't tried it, sriracha is kind of like tabasco with most of the vinegar evaporated out of it, with a little sweetness and garlic added.

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Wayne
Torn & Frayed

You know what they say about getting older...

You loose your taste buds and all of a sudden you like things more spicy.

My FIL was famous for making innocuous looking things like a salad that if used without supervision could spontaneously combust.

Just sayin...

What Wayne and Arik said. The Vietnamese version is the real stuff. My chili-head sister can do shots of it.

I also love the Vietnamese chili-garlic paste: thicker, a little hotter, nice garlicky flavor. Good for what ails you.

One of my favorite cold main dishes is chicken with diced cucumber and onion, generously doused with sriracha. Sam's Club sells an excellent canned chicken white meat in chunks that works very well. Actually, I don't have a cucumber but I might do the chicken with onion and sriracha for dinner tonight.

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Oh well, what the hell.

Interesting. I don't get the sweetness but I do get a little bitterness

I told my wife it was spicy Asian chili sauce . . .

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I need to try this stuff.

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I haven't tried the Tabasco version. It still amazes me how Tabasco has blown up in the past few years, going from one basic sauce to about seven or eight nowadays. I'm still a big fan, no matter what anyone says.

I've been using the brand with the red rooster on it for years. I first got turned on to it at a Chinese place years ago in OKC. They also had
another sauce made by the same people in a jar, rather than the plastic squeeze bottle. I asked what the difference was, & was told "This(in the plastic squeeze bottle)is for flavor, While this(In the jar)is for heat". Both are made by the company, Huy Fong Foods. Good stuff!

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I never leave home without one of these:

Sriracha2Go: A miniature refillable sriracha bottle.

Does Walmart have it?

With some of those sorted tales of Cajs past it's a wonder he made it to 60 at all.

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Dum vivo cano

Around here they do . . .

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Daddy's gotta get one of those.

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Nothing against any food and certainly nothing against Cajuns'...but I just cannot wrap my head around putting something in your mouth that causes pain and calling it enjoyable. I mean, eat what ever you want...but...how do you do it???? I absolutely cannot stand anything hot or spicy at all...I tried to eat a banana pepper once and had to go to the hospital.

Was it a Vietnamese recipe? Does it have any similiarity to nuoc mam ?

This is a Good story! Back in the late 80's through about 2000, I was a partner in a car lot here in Nashville. And we had 5 employees. One was a Asian Gentleman and he was nicknamed Catfish, Long before we hired him. He even asked for his work shirts to say Catfish. He was proud of the name. He had a mustache that only had 6-8 real long hairs on each side. Hence the name Catfish? He was a Great guy! Would do anything we asked. But did look like a Catfish!

He ate Siracha on everything. And got us starting to using it. And he had a shelf by our big tool box in the storage room and kept it on the shelf. And also some smelly fish juice? That stunk!! And he would never eat with us in the lunch room. He ate alone everyday. Even if we bought him lunch. And he would start cussing us in his language? When the Siracha was missing. We would sneak his Siracha but left the stinky fish stuff alone. So one day I came back from lunch and he had bought us all a bottle of our own. And told us to leave his alone. From then on, a bottle was on our lunch room table. And we left his alone.

I've LOVED it ever since. Thanks to Catfish!

Sriracha factory freed of public nuisance label

PS a long time before Jack made "sriracha" sauce popular, people were calling it "rooster sauce", and I remember seeing at the VN bakery in Kaneohe (Hawaii) about 20 years ago. Just the thing for the Vietnamese manapua

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ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

My wife calls it Cock Sauce..... I'm sure it's because of the chicken on the label....

Great stuff on Chinese chicken wings to pick it up a notch..........

New thing in our area now is.............. Chia tea. (Costco )

NEVER HEARD OF IT BUT YOU GUYS ARE MAKING ME HUNGRY!!! Will have to look for it-- THANKS!!! ice cream?? Really???

Makes a great bloody mary too!

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Really? U saw it in Wikipedia?

Yes and no. One brand I've tried (not the original rooster brand) had fish oil in the list of ingredients, but I couldn't tell the difference. Nuoc mam is not to my taste, couldn't get past the smell.

Not even close to Tobasco. IMHO. 100% better

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I saw some chip dip with it added to it yesterday...so I picked some up and tried with some potato chips last night along with my favorite adult beverage while playing cards.

2:00am was up looking for the Tums

Will have to try the stuff straight out of the bottle.

Masterbuck54