Texas Pete's Pepper Sauce

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15 June 2019, 02:54 PM

Steve Miller

Texas Pete's Pepper Sauce

I received a jar of this as a gift. It's little tabasco peppers soaking in vinegar. It has a shaker top so I think the idea is to shake out the vinegar like a hot sauce.

But the vinegar tastes like vinegar - no heat. Should I smash up some of the peppers? How do people normally use this stuff?

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15 June 2019, 03:56 PM

wtg

Never heard of it, so I looked up some reviews.

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My grandmother -- an old-school Southern cook -- would not be caught DEAD without TPPS on her table. Collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, crayon greens -- if it was green, she'd eat it, after dousing it with Texas Pete.

Sure, with the number of peppers in the jar, you run out of vinegar quickly. So, put some more in, goober! White vinegar, red vinegar, rice vinegar -- it's all good.

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15 June 2019, 04:30 PM

Steve Miller

It's not often that you can stump the Google, but "crayon greens" does it.

Anybody know what crayon greens are?

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15 June 2019, 04:33 PM

Steve Miller

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Originally posted by wtg:

I will say the peppers are good in a martini next to the olives.

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15 June 2019, 07:44 PM

RealPlayer

I never quite understood these. My impulse would be to eat the pickled peppers as a condiment and treat the vinegar as just something they need to sit in.

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15 June 2019, 09:43 PM

Mikhailoh

I’m aware of the brand, but if the vinegar doesn’t take the heat I don’t see the point.

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15 June 2019, 10:21 PM

Steve Miller

quote:
Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
I’m aware of the brand, but if the vinegar doesn’t take the heat I don’t see the point.

It’s possible that it takes the heat, just not enough for me to notice.

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16 June 2019, 09:18 AM

Mary Anna

Pepper sauce like Texas Pete’’s is a standard accompaniment for greens where I’m from. It’s not supposed to be particularly hot. That’s why God gave us Tabasco sauce (or Louisiana Gold or Crystal...). It’s just flavored vinegar.

Some people use it on fried fish, too. I just use it on greens.

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16 June 2019, 09:33 AM

wtg

MA, do you have an answer about crayon greens? Or was that just a joke about the grandmother using the pepper sauce on anything.....

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16 June 2019, 08:53 PM

Mary Anna

I've never heard of crayon greens.

I think it was meant to be a joke, but it would have been more effective if it had been written s "green crayons."

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