Please find me whose idea “kirkshotsauce” was
It’s so coppery! Yim yum
It was a top google search when people were looking for sources of the video of him being shot and they figured they could capitalize on that.
But is it… satire?..
I mean I was definitely making a joke. I can’t speak for the ghouls who are actually marketing it but I doubt they have the capability for that sort of thinking.
Paprika is made from peppers!!
Counting or not counting bell peppers?
Yes. But they didn’t even list ghost pepper in their “ghost pepper” sauce.
Idk maybe the current maintaince will “fix” that but it’s pretty obvious just a scam sauce for kirk stans
that’s me on seeing this post
some of y’all never had a spicy goulash made from hot Hungarian paprika and it shows
I don’t think they’re making a quality product here
This is basically just piquant vinegar
Unless that generic spices is hiding something…
As a child of Louisiana, piquant vinegar is our entire genre of hot sauce.
I enjoy a good Louisiana hot sauce sometimes, but I usually prefer Secret Aardvark
It’s got a lot more going on
Well as a current resident of Portland, I can tell you are a person of culture.
I like to maintain an array of hot sauces for different circumstances. In my kitchen at all times there will be:
- Louisiana hot sauce
- Mexican hot sauce
- buffalo sauce (a la Frank’s Red Hot)
- a thick one a la Secret Aardvark
- sriracha
- sambal
- lao gan ma
Highly recommend adding Pico Pica to that lineup.
Getting some now
Don’t tell my partner
Big same, my partner doesn’t do hot sauce and so she’s always like, “You have a whole shelf on the door of the fridge, stop enjoying flavors”
I exaggerate, but that’s almost the truth
You’ve reminded me that I need to make my own secret aardvark because I love that shit but it’s too damn expensive
Hot paprika still clocks in at less than anything people would call chilis
It’s not that hot though
You can get some paprika at like 1000 scovilles. Admittedly that’s still pretty tame for hot sauce.
Oh that does sound tasty though
Reminds me of that part from Amazing Race when they were in Hungary and had to eat a bowl of goulash at a restaurant and the staff had to get some buckets because straight up everyone was puking their guts out.
i’ve met actual humans who called all sorts of random shit “spicy” and i eventually narrowed it down to vinegar, i have to assume they just think “spicy is when tongue feel something”
It’s weird, but spiciness is actually more than just capsaicin. Wasabi, mustard, and horseradish have allyl isothiocyanate; sichuan peppercorns have sanshools; ginger has gingerol. Most people recognize all of these in addition to capsaicin as spicy even though each is a different sensation and activates different receptors.
Vinegar does actually activate the same TRPV1 temperature/pain receptor that capsaicin does, so it’s not entirely surprising that people with very sheltered tastebuds would consider that sensation to be spicy.
I do want to try a dish with Sichuan peppercorns, from what I read it also causes a somewhat numbing sensation
fuck I’m old, dammit, why can’t I find the like and subscribe buttons I’m supposed to hit/smash/obliterate
Spicy is also a very broad term. It can mean hot, or it can simply mean flavoured with spices. Most spices aren’t actually hot, and it would be kind of odd to call a pumpkin spice latte spicy. My Chinese Malaysian mother always told me how Hokkien has different words for thermal heat and heat from chillis, and another for spicy.
Hokkien has different words for thermal heat and heat from chillis, and another for spicy.
the common word i often hear for spicy is hiam(?), but what’s the word for heat from chilis?
My mother used the word luak (produced lu-ah). I checked, and luak and him seem to be similar, but luak is more common in Penang, where my mother was born.
it would be kind of odd to call a pumpkin spice latte spicy
Maybe if it was made by cowards. Scorpion pepper is the secret, lost mulling spice.
spoiler
Mulling spices are foul as hell in coffee though. They clash with it in a really unpleasant way.
Actually, I don’t think it’s strange to call PSL spicy. Clearly the anti-PSL crowd are just softie who can’t handle their spice.
I’ve definitely heard a lot of white people like my mom use the term spicy for anything highly spiced.
Spicy in her mind is the same as “too flavorful” and this will generate a complaint as though you’re trying to fatally poison her, whether it’s ghost peppers or just a larger than expected quantity of garlic.
My father, on the other hand, is one of those guys that actively seeks out high Scoville unit food at restaurants and stuff.
I’ve definitely heard a lot of white people like my mom use the term spicy for anything highly spiced.
Spicy in her mind is the same as “too flavorful” and this will generate a complaint as though you’re trying to fatally poison her,
This is what I think of with chai, which is not even a little bit hot but absolutely has too much going on and needs to chill the fuck out
Wow thanks, I love food fun facts!
meanwhile i think tabasco is weak shit and don’t like the vinegar flavor
Was catching up with a buddy in China today that has some Spanish coworkers over there, and one of 'em told him that garlic and onion were ‘‘spicy’’ and he almost laughed in their face.
raw garlic can be ‘spicy’ though, even Chinese people use 辣 sometimes to describe the slight burning feeling from a lot of raw garlic (like in northern food) but it’s not the spicy of capsaicin
alright now I feel like I really need to make a competing hot sauce brand called Kirk’d Hot Sauce and we sell large novelty bottles on our website with charlie kirk’s head as the cap with the dispenser on his neck
his face is too big I barely recognised him smh
Looks like pale shaven Edrogan or something
What if we made ketchup, but without tomatos and without sugar?
Only recently discovered ketchup without sugar. It just tastes better without any added sweeteners, it’s so savoury! Great on eggs.
I’ve heard mushroom ketchup is also killer. I kinda want to get both and try them out sometime
Fun fact ‘Ketchup’ without any descriptors used to refer to mushroom ketchup
Idk they didn’t even try to have tomatoes in this
This can’t be real
Sadly https://kirkshotsauce.com/ exists.
Although appears either down or being worked on
For the full Kirk experience, shake well - after removing the cap.
Hot ones but you’re just seasoning your food with salt and pre-ground black pepper.
don’t most slop hot sauces just add grains of capsaicin separate from peppers?
Yes and similarly this is how industry does jalapenos. They cultivate almost completely non-spicy jalapenos, use them for the pepper flavor, then add capsaicin to exact amounts. This is likely why supermarket jalapenos suck now.
Every once in a while I will use a shit ton of jalapeños expecting them to be lame bullshit and get a spicy batch. Always hard to predict
This is probably why they had to write a generic “spices” on the label.
please tell me it comes in a commemorative neck dispenser
It’s a DIY package. Just drill a hole in the side of the bottle.
Bonus, that’s the exact same ingredients as the ghost pepper version they sell.
Somehow all 3 are all 4/5 hot
So did the sauce come out while he was still alive or is this just pure grift?
i guess technically he was still alive as it was coming out
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Okay I’m amazed it was registered in 2021
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It needs to be a squirt bottle otherwise it’s inauthentic
The onion is spicy.
