Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-16T15:22:47-04:00
Mmmmm. I can smell the hot sauce from here.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T15:26:15-04:00
Fax sent. It shows that they received it.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-16T15:29:31-04:00
Is there an alternative company you could send this project to?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T15:31:42-04:00
BaKhan: One winter in Canada and the tough men tumble... And I don't think you understand quite how much I love cold.
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Kentucky Fried Hot Sauce
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-16T15:39:23-04:00
Wait. Did you say Kentucky? Well no wonder there is a delay. They are too busy trying to block gays from getting married. Might want to try another state.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T15:55:05-04:00
I haven't been able to find another company that offers what they do.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-16T15:56:01-04:00
@Zem, I love the reference... always loved that song! But, seriously, I don't think you really know what cold is, or how incredibly frustrating and monotonous it can be. As soon as it sets in, it doesn't go away for 6 months! Even then, I don't think I start to warm up until late July. Thats why my wife and I are always heading down to the states, well that and Disney... ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-16T16:02:33-04:00
@BaKhan: I would think winter in Canada is fairly easy when you have someone to snuggle with.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T16:07:30-04:00
Geist, that probably helps, but I'd think you'd also want a dram of hot buttered rum.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T16:07:43-04:00
BaKhan, I still don't think you really understand. Cold is love. Cold is life. ;)
I would love that. I looked up the average climate for Calgary to see, and the averages over winter are about the same as here, though for a longer time per year. I personally think our winters here are a bit warm and would love canada. See, even if it's colder all year, at least it doesn't get a heat index of upwards of 125 F for a few weeks every year. I'll trade you places, how about that! Though I mean I'm well over 1,000 miles from either Disney.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-16T16:11:28-04:00
@Geist, I could see how you would think that, but my wife is like the opposite of a heated blanket! I swear she steals my heat in the night with her frozen feet and butt!
@LZ, try whiskey, lots of whiskey... ;)
@Zem, Seriously, I would love to move to the states, so bad! But my wife would have to get re-certified to work there, and she'd only make about half as much. Seems you guys don't take mental health quite as seriously down there... ;)
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T16:24:34-04:00
Oooooh, yes! Fireball would do wonders for warming a person up!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T16:27:09-04:00
LZ, you're telling me. Come to the midwest if you're going to move here. Seriously, just stay away from any place you hear about on TV. That's a good rule of thumb. Not like the places around the major areas are so bad or that they're entirely bad themselves, but yeah, best to stay as far away from anything eventful as possible in this country. If I were you, I'd suck up the cold and stay where you are.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T16:28:29-04:00
The fax worked. The Kentucky people feel I am too far away. Damn!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-16T16:48:16-04:00
@BaKhan: Is that why you are trying to ship Randy Quaid back to the U.S.?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-16T16:50:02-04:00
Ah heck. Now I won't get me any special hot sauce.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T16:55:16-04:00
No, Geist, it just means I'll have to raise more money on the Kickstarter
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T16:57:50-04:00
Geist, We'll take him! I love Randy Quaid. Deport him back, please.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T16:59:38-04:00
LZ, what were they doing, bottling or the entire process? Because either way, it's likely you'll be able to do it yourself with some work. If by chance it does become a much bigger success than expected, there are still ways to deal with it.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-16T17:00:52-04:00
@Geist, that was the first I heard of that! Man I love that guy! He's awesome, best part of many movies! I can't believe we'd give him up, you should see some of the scumbag douches this country lets stay... sigh.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T17:05:07-04:00
Zem, they do the whole process. I can still do it; it will just require more work on my part and more start-up capital as I need to get my own bottling equipment.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T17:20:31-04:00
Yeah, that's what I figured. Why isn't there a company that will do it that's much closer to you? And why does it matter that they're far away if you can send instructions, payment, and management to them over the internet and phone?
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BaKhan, you've sent over some bad people as well, such as Beiber. Mostly Beiber. And though you guys let us in on so many amazing talents, you keep some great ones for yourselves, like the Arrogant Worms, who I found online last year and loved. Do you count as keeping Rush for yourselves? Because they definitely were strictly Canadian, though they toured the entire world. A surprising amount of the best entertainers are either Jewish or Canadian, sometimes both.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-16T17:30:16-04:00
@LZ, if you offer trinkets, they will come. Well at least I will, not that I wouldn't anyways cause KC for life!
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-16T17:30:20-04:00
LZ make sure you get quotes from a few different companys...the closet to you the better
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T17:36:02-04:00
The trouble is that I have only found one other company that offers anything close to what the Kentucky folks do. They're in Florida. I'll still reach out to them and continue searching for others closer to me, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
When this thing takes off, I think I'll offer contract bottling services to people, as well. I think I could make people like me happy, and earn some extra money in the process.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-16T17:54:31-04:00
@Zem, on behalf of all Canadians, I would like to offer my most sincere appologies for Bieber and Celine Dion. What can I say... Arrogant Worms, yep, all the way, especially the last Saskatchewan pirate! Rush, is definitely Canadian, sorry but we're not sharing! I think the reason why you find so much talent coming out of here, is because it is so cold. We stay inside and practice, lots! ;)
Powers of Tesla 2015-10-16T19:19:58-04:00
Hi everyone. I'm back. At least for a bit.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T19:25:12-04:00
Hi, PoT. At least for now.
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BaKhan, nobody here knows about the Arrogant Worms and I only found them by accident. It's so sad that so many people live entire lives without knowing of them!
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What's up, Doc? You're not on here nearly as much as you should be. Like once every 3 days.
Powers of Tesla 2015-10-16T19:40:06-04:00
Just realized I have to run out to the store to get supplies for making bread pudding. Darn it.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T19:52:44-04:00
Ooh, that sounds nice.
Hip hip, *cheers*. I finished the only thing left until the stuff due tuesday! Time to pack up and go home.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T19:55:12-04:00
Okay, I found two places in Florida that appear to offer the same services as the Kentucky folks. I have contacted them both to see if they'll work with me.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-16T20:05:40-04:00
*perk* Did someone say bread pudding? Oh man, do I love that dessert. I haven't eaten in a long while. Can't find too many places in D.C. that make it well.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T20:13:27-04:00
Just commenting here because I'm leaving and won't be here for probably an hour and 1) don't want to lose my place, and B( just want you all to know I'm still here now and you can start the timer now or within a minute or two. Or whatever.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T20:15:38-04:00
Ok. See you later.
Powers of Tesla 2015-10-16T21:19:57-04:00
Geist I just got back from New Orleans, where I ate my way across the city, and I was surprised at how pedestrian a lot of their bread pudding was. Hell, one place didn't have any sauce at all for the pudding. And that is just plain wrong.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T21:41:45-04:00
Let the records show I've been here for some time now and was too lazy to bring out my laptop.
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PoT, New Orleans? I love that place! And there's so much great food! I didn't like it so much my first time there, but the next time it seemed amazing.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T21:50:43-04:00
I've not been there
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T21:59:21-04:00
Come to the neighborhood social for an evening of social anxiety and misophonia!
Powers of Tesla 2015-10-16T22:19:23-04:00
New Orleans is one of our favorite places. This was our third trip there. We took a couple along with us, she had been there several times, he had never been there. Bourbon St. at night was a revelation for him. This time I decided to take a chance and got a small apartment for the weekend through airbnb. What an excellent idea that was. We stayed right in the Quarter and it only cost us $100 a night for a bedroom, bathroom and living room. Excellent value and wonderful hosts.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-16T22:20:48-04:00
That is a great value!
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-16T23:39:15-04:00
Hey now I'm from Louisiana. ..don't hate on our food....
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T23:57:04-04:00
PoT, that is a good deal. We just stayed in hotels, but usually you can use couchsurfer or some similar program to stay for free, sometimes even large groups of people. Like my family's house could hold as many people as you could bring, and we've hosted up to I believe 8 people at one time, and that was when our entire family lived there.
Anyways, yes, that sounds amazing and I'm totally jealous. The first time I was there was Christmas a few years back and then again with our exchange student of my senior year just so he could see it and bring his tally up to over half of all the states in the one year he was here. I think I like Seattle best of the major American cities, but New Orleans is close behind.
And Bourbon Street every night is a revelation the first time you see it. And the next few. I have a couple good stories about it, some really creepy. Incidentally, did you see the washboard guy there? He's there every day and is really, really good at playing the washboard. Ooh, even better, did you get scammed out of some money?! ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-16T23:57:27-04:00
LZ, I feel as if there's a story behind that comment.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T00:28:13-04:00
That's a great gift idea for a gaming groupie! Those actually look really cool. For a second I worried if they would really be able to deliver all those by christmas, but it's such a well made campaign, and as good quality as those look, they should be pretty easy to make by machine, so I wouldn't really even worry too much about that, though it would seem they'd have to already have them all made or done pretty quickly. Christmas isn't that far away at all. But yeah, great gift idea!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T01:01:58-04:00
Adam Ruins Everything was a great College Humor sketch series, but now he made his own TV show and it's amazing. Check it out, seriously. I love that show.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-17T01:05:38-04:00
Zem, which comment?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T01:45:56-04:00
Come to the neighborhood social for an evening of social anxiety and misophonia!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T02:30:54-04:00
Sleep is so lucky I love it so much. Otherwise I'd stay up like all night. Might still do that tomorrow anyways, who knows.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T10:49:51-04:00
Yeah, yesterday was super busy in here (relatively) but now I doubt anyone will really be in here much all day.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-17T11:53:17-04:00
It's not much of a story, really. I got dragged off to the neighborhood social. I have transient social anxiety, which flared up. As far as the misophonia, I think I'm actually hypersensitive and not fully misophonic, but hypersensitivity is basically a mild form of misophonia. It's worse when I get the social anxiety, though.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T11:57:51-04:00
Yeah, I wouldn't have much fun there either. Nothing like that sounds good to me at all.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-17T12:29:58-04:00
Yeah, the anxiety is worse when I know it's expected that I'll be cheery and friendly with everyone. The problem is that I'm an introvert, and I don't know very many people in the neighborhood. So I feel a lot of pressure to be happy and outgoing; and a simultaneous strong disinclination to do so.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T12:48:16-04:00
Trust me, you're not the only one.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-17T13:06:46-04:00
I know. The really funny thing is that one of the teens in the neighborhood is an extreme extrovert, and she will frequently seek me out during any church-related thing that we're both at. I wonder if it's because I'll just sit and listen while she goes on and on at 1000 words per minute.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-17T13:14:14-04:00
Well, while I wait for Diablo III to finish installing on my new laptop, I think I'll bottle some sauce.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-17T13:32:25-04:00
LZ .... your going to need a few test subjects to test that sauce...>.> ......XD
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-17T13:34:43-04:00
Yah the box itself is super simplistic. .. it's a small piece of wood drilled out sanded up taped the edges and sand it up......oh and drill for the small screws for magnets .....and they tend to deliver on time for there campaigns or early
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-17T14:06:26-04:00
This is a big batch. I've filled 12 bottles and still have more sauce. I need to prep more bottles.
I think it's a good idea to have people try it and share it with friends. That will help spread the word and people will know that they're getting a good thing when they back it.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-17T14:39:03-04:00
Total yield: 16 bottles
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T17:51:08-04:00
Free samples as a stretch goal? Like just a tiny bit of each sauce.
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Today is a calm day for me, which is really nice. I'm just sitting here with my brother, co-opping guitar hero 3 on the wii, him playing Skyrim while I play an old spiderman game, getting snacks, etc. Why can't I have more days like this? I hate real life sometimes. It's really boring and alot of work.
Also, that's the reason I haven't been on here much today: either he has my computer or I'm playing a game or both.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-17T20:11:56-04:00
Mmmmm...hot sauce. How hot is it?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T20:23:02-04:00
Yeah, how wide is the range? Not including the specialty fish sauce (we're having salmon, so I wish we had something like that!) whats the variety of spiciness? I remember you saying you got some reapers, so I know it gets pretty hot on the upper end.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-17T20:27:36-04:00
Actually, the reapers came...as seeds. I misread the eBay listing.
I'm not sure exactly where the sauces lie on the Scoville scale. I don't know how to measure Scoville Units. All I know is that I think the two flavors I have are just right, whereas the Mrs says they're too hot.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T22:18:37-04:00
That just means she thinks they're perfect as well. That sucks about the seeds, but I guess you can always buy some now and then plant those next year.
And I didn't mean scientifically how hot, just how hot in general.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-17T23:13:41-04:00
That's good I like hot....
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-17T23:25:30-04:00
Both of my current flavors are a little hotter than Sriracha. I think the steak/BBQ sauce is a leetle hotter than the other, but it's hard to be sure. It could simply be that it's more difficult to spread a meat sauce throughout a steak than it is to spread an all-purpose sauce throughout mac n cheese or eggs.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-17T23:38:36-04:00
Well if you need some outside reports on lvl of spice I'm sure we would be willing to help out ...find some small bottles (sample sizes ) and let the KC help you out man
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-17T23:39:16-04:00
I would be willing to pay shipping to me if that's a factor
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-17T23:49:28-04:00
It would be a factor. I'll see if I can find any sample-sized bottles.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-17T23:55:37-04:00
I would love to test some out. I'll have to find some good food, but I'd pay shipping to taste-test some. Though I really am interested in the seafood hot sauce because, well, one, I had a large part in the inspiration, but two, because I don't really think there's that much of that kind of a market out there. Never seen anything like that, so it'd definitely be worth a try.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-18T00:06:13-04:00
Alright just shoot me an email when you are ready
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-18T13:04:57-04:00
I may have found a local solution to my production/bottling problem!
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-18T14:22:36-04:00
Ooh yah? What did you find?
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-18T14:27:22-04:00
A local co-packer. I sent an email to see if they'll use my recipes, cause they'll let people put custom labels on the company's recipes. Their minimum order is 48 bottles, which is a lot easier to do than the Florida folks' minimum order of about 2.4k bottles.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-18T17:21:12-04:00
Oh, I hope that works! That would be much nicer.
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It's been a couple years since I had pho tai, though I really love it. It was so good, but maybe a fifth of a bottle of sriracha wasn't a great idea. It tasted good, but I can already feel my body is sick of its s*** and wants to treat it the same way back. Basically, it's never as fun coming out as going in. But that's an easy price to pay for such great food. (cheap, too, at that place)
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-18T17:24:39-04:00
I grew up eating spicy food so Sriracha is not spicy to me habinaro is about my preferred lvl of spice when I want something spicy
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-18T17:28:46-04:00
Red habinaro is around 250-577k on the Scoville scale
Sriracha is 1.5-2.5k.....
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-18T17:34:49-04:00
Ok Sriracha looks like it's close to 5-8k... but still not hot XD
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-18T17:36:31-04:00
I do like the flavor....
I hate mayo but I found I like Sriracha mayo lol
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-18T17:55:33-04:00
I know, sriracha isn't very hot or flavorful and is completely overrated, but I put a hell of alot in there. The water was blood red.
David Guidry "Doc" 2015-10-18T18:48:19-04:00
Lol it has good flavor that's about all though
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-18T18:53:24-04:00
Good luck LZ. I hope the co-bottler will work with you. I am looking forward to some spicy fish sauce.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-18T18:55:44-04:00
Mother Nature is currently going crazy. The high today was 57 and it's currently in the 30's but on Wednesday it will be 76.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-18T19:43:21-04:00
20 degrees over 4 days? Every spring and fall we have a couple weeks when nature becomes bipolar or something and can't choose between 20s or 30s and 70s or 80s and switches between the two every few days. I think it's really fun, though everyone else hates it for some reason. They complain about one season and then complain about the next.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-18T20:50:22-04:00
If I had to guess, I'd put my stuff around 10-12k. It tastes great, though.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-18T21:12:20-04:00
So kinda spicy but flavorful? Sounds perfect for barbecue stuff, especially pulled pork sandwiches or some such. Don't know why, but that sounds really good right now.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-18T21:18:23-04:00
Oh, the Mad Cow is excellent with pulled pork, pulled turkey, brisket....
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-18T21:20:56-04:00
The Original Inferno is great with eggs, burgers, burritos, anything.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-18T21:35:07-04:00
So mad cow barbecue and inferno etc.? And those are just the two you have made right now. With all that testing, I'd hate to be your toilet.
Lord Zombitten 2015-10-18T21:38:43-04:00
I established those two a few years ago
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-18T22:02:12-04:00
Man I love me some hot sauce on eggs! Probably my favourite use!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-18T23:25:50-04:00
I've never done that, but in hotels and my dorm's buffet, those eggs are good with salsa. I like hot sauce best on barbecue, pho tai, hot wings, and the like.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2015-10-19T04:14:16-04:00
Hmm... it's quiet here for 3 am... too quiet...
C.F. "The Ex-President" Heyns 2015-10-19T04:33:32-04:00
very quiet....... ssshhh..... don't ruin the quietness.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-19T06:59:14-04:00
Hot sauce on eggs? Nope for me. Mix it in burger meat? Sure, why not and then top it with some bacon and cheese when cooked.
Also, good morning kittens. I'm back from my week off....and have 45 emails in my inbox at work. >.<
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-10-19T10:52:37-04:00
Morning Corps!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-19T10:54:51-04:00
At least you had a week off. I won't get any vacation leave until next year. I would love to have a week off now. There is so much I need to organize for the winter.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2015-10-19T10:55:07-04:00
Mmmmm. I can smell the hot sauce from here.
Fax sent. It shows that they received it.
Is there an alternative company you could send this project to?
BaKhan: One winter in Canada and the tough men tumble... And I don't think you understand quite how much I love cold.
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Kentucky Fried Hot Sauce
Wait. Did you say Kentucky? Well no wonder there is a delay. They are too busy trying to block gays from getting married. Might want to try another state.
I haven't been able to find another company that offers what they do.
@Zem, I love the reference... always loved that song! But, seriously, I don't think you really know what cold is, or how incredibly frustrating and monotonous it can be. As soon as it sets in, it doesn't go away for 6 months! Even then, I don't think I start to warm up until late July. Thats why my wife and I are always heading down to the states, well that and Disney... ;)
@BaKhan: I would think winter in Canada is fairly easy when you have someone to snuggle with.
Geist, that probably helps, but I'd think you'd also want a dram of hot buttered rum.
BaKhan, I still don't think you really understand. Cold is love. Cold is life. ;)
I would love that. I looked up the average climate for Calgary to see, and the averages over winter are about the same as here, though for a longer time per year. I personally think our winters here are a bit warm and would love canada. See, even if it's colder all year, at least it doesn't get a heat index of upwards of 125 F for a few weeks every year. I'll trade you places, how about that! Though I mean I'm well over 1,000 miles from either Disney.
@Geist, I could see how you would think that, but my wife is like the opposite of a heated blanket! I swear she steals my heat in the night with her frozen feet and butt!
@LZ, try whiskey, lots of whiskey... ;)
@Zem, Seriously, I would love to move to the states, so bad! But my wife would have to get re-certified to work there, and she'd only make about half as much. Seems you guys don't take mental health quite as seriously down there... ;)
Oooooh, yes! Fireball would do wonders for warming a person up!
LZ, you're telling me. Come to the midwest if you're going to move here. Seriously, just stay away from any place you hear about on TV. That's a good rule of thumb. Not like the places around the major areas are so bad or that they're entirely bad themselves, but yeah, best to stay as far away from anything eventful as possible in this country. If I were you, I'd suck up the cold and stay where you are.
The fax worked. The Kentucky people feel I am too far away. Damn!
@BaKhan: Is that why you are trying to ship Randy Quaid back to the U.S.?
Ah heck. Now I won't get me any special hot sauce.
No, Geist, it just means I'll have to raise more money on the Kickstarter
Geist, We'll take him! I love Randy Quaid. Deport him back, please.
LZ, what were they doing, bottling or the entire process? Because either way, it's likely you'll be able to do it yourself with some work. If by chance it does become a much bigger success than expected, there are still ways to deal with it.
@Geist, that was the first I heard of that! Man I love that guy! He's awesome, best part of many movies! I can't believe we'd give him up, you should see some of the scumbag douches this country lets stay... sigh.
Zem, they do the whole process. I can still do it; it will just require more work on my part and more start-up capital as I need to get my own bottling equipment.
Yeah, that's what I figured. Why isn't there a company that will do it that's much closer to you? And why does it matter that they're far away if you can send instructions, payment, and management to them over the internet and phone?
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BaKhan, you've sent over some bad people as well, such as Beiber. Mostly Beiber. And though you guys let us in on so many amazing talents, you keep some great ones for yourselves, like the Arrogant Worms, who I found online last year and loved. Do you count as keeping Rush for yourselves? Because they definitely were strictly Canadian, though they toured the entire world. A surprising amount of the best entertainers are either Jewish or Canadian, sometimes both.
@LZ, if you offer trinkets, they will come. Well at least I will, not that I wouldn't anyways cause KC for life!
LZ make sure you get quotes from a few different companys...the closet to you the better
The trouble is that I have only found one other company that offers anything close to what the Kentucky folks do. They're in Florida. I'll still reach out to them and continue searching for others closer to me, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
When this thing takes off, I think I'll offer contract bottling services to people, as well. I think I could make people like me happy, and earn some extra money in the process.
@Zem, on behalf of all Canadians, I would like to offer my most sincere appologies for Bieber and Celine Dion. What can I say... Arrogant Worms, yep, all the way, especially the last Saskatchewan pirate! Rush, is definitely Canadian, sorry but we're not sharing! I think the reason why you find so much talent coming out of here, is because it is so cold. We stay inside and practice, lots! ;)
Hi everyone. I'm back. At least for a bit.
Hi, PoT. At least for now.
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BaKhan, nobody here knows about the Arrogant Worms and I only found them by accident. It's so sad that so many people live entire lives without knowing of them!
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What's up, Doc? You're not on here nearly as much as you should be. Like once every 3 days.
Just realized I have to run out to the store to get supplies for making bread pudding. Darn it.
Ooh, that sounds nice.
Hip hip, *cheers*. I finished the only thing left until the stuff due tuesday! Time to pack up and go home.
Okay, I found two places in Florida that appear to offer the same services as the Kentucky folks. I have contacted them both to see if they'll work with me.
*perk* Did someone say bread pudding? Oh man, do I love that dessert. I haven't eaten in a long while. Can't find too many places in D.C. that make it well.
Just commenting here because I'm leaving and won't be here for probably an hour and 1) don't want to lose my place, and B( just want you all to know I'm still here now and you can start the timer now or within a minute or two. Or whatever.
Ok. See you later.
Geist I just got back from New Orleans, where I ate my way across the city, and I was surprised at how pedestrian a lot of their bread pudding was. Hell, one place didn't have any sauce at all for the pudding. And that is just plain wrong.
Let the records show I've been here for some time now and was too lazy to bring out my laptop.
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PoT, New Orleans? I love that place! And there's so much great food! I didn't like it so much my first time there, but the next time it seemed amazing.
I've not been there
Come to the neighborhood social for an evening of social anxiety and misophonia!
New Orleans is one of our favorite places. This was our third trip there. We took a couple along with us, she had been there several times, he had never been there. Bourbon St. at night was a revelation for him. This time I decided to take a chance and got a small apartment for the weekend through airbnb. What an excellent idea that was. We stayed right in the Quarter and it only cost us $100 a night for a bedroom, bathroom and living room. Excellent value and wonderful hosts.
That is a great value!
Hey now I'm from Louisiana. ..don't hate on our food....
PoT, that is a good deal. We just stayed in hotels, but usually you can use couchsurfer or some similar program to stay for free, sometimes even large groups of people. Like my family's house could hold as many people as you could bring, and we've hosted up to I believe 8 people at one time, and that was when our entire family lived there.
Anyways, yes, that sounds amazing and I'm totally jealous. The first time I was there was Christmas a few years back and then again with our exchange student of my senior year just so he could see it and bring his tally up to over half of all the states in the one year he was here. I think I like Seattle best of the major American cities, but New Orleans is close behind.
And Bourbon Street every night is a revelation the first time you see it. And the next few. I have a couple good stories about it, some really creepy. Incidentally, did you see the washboard guy there? He's there every day and is really, really good at playing the washboard. Ooh, even better, did you get scammed out of some money?! ;)
LZ, I feel as if there's a story behind that comment.
Alright I'm getting this as a Christmas gift for some of the peeps in my gaming groups...
What do you guys think?https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/754081504/wyrmwood-hero-vault-built-to-carry-your-gaming-ess/description
That's a great gift idea for a gaming groupie! Those actually look really cool. For a second I worried if they would really be able to deliver all those by christmas, but it's such a well made campaign, and as good quality as those look, they should be pretty easy to make by machine, so I wouldn't really even worry too much about that, though it would seem they'd have to already have them all made or done pretty quickly. Christmas isn't that far away at all. But yeah, great gift idea!
Adam Ruins Everything was a great College Humor sketch series, but now he made his own TV show and it's amazing. Check it out, seriously. I love that show.
Zem, which comment?
Come to the neighborhood social for an evening of social anxiety and misophonia!
Sleep is so lucky I love it so much. Otherwise I'd stay up like all night. Might still do that tomorrow anyways, who knows.
Yeah, yesterday was super busy in here (relatively) but now I doubt anyone will really be in here much all day.
It's not much of a story, really. I got dragged off to the neighborhood social. I have transient social anxiety, which flared up. As far as the misophonia, I think I'm actually hypersensitive and not fully misophonic, but hypersensitivity is basically a mild form of misophonia. It's worse when I get the social anxiety, though.
Yeah, I wouldn't have much fun there either. Nothing like that sounds good to me at all.
Yeah, the anxiety is worse when I know it's expected that I'll be cheery and friendly with everyone. The problem is that I'm an introvert, and I don't know very many people in the neighborhood. So I feel a lot of pressure to be happy and outgoing; and a simultaneous strong disinclination to do so.
Trust me, you're not the only one.
I know. The really funny thing is that one of the teens in the neighborhood is an extreme extrovert, and she will frequently seek me out during any church-related thing that we're both at. I wonder if it's because I'll just sit and listen while she goes on and on at 1000 words per minute.
Well, while I wait for Diablo III to finish installing on my new laptop, I think I'll bottle some sauce.
LZ .... your going to need a few test subjects to test that sauce...>.> ......XD
Yah the box itself is super simplistic. .. it's a small piece of wood drilled out sanded up taped the edges and sand it up......oh and drill for the small screws for magnets .....and they tend to deliver on time for there campaigns or early
This is a big batch. I've filled 12 bottles and still have more sauce. I need to prep more bottles.
I think it's a good idea to have people try it and share it with friends. That will help spread the word and people will know that they're getting a good thing when they back it.
Total yield: 16 bottles
Free samples as a stretch goal? Like just a tiny bit of each sauce.
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Today is a calm day for me, which is really nice. I'm just sitting here with my brother, co-opping guitar hero 3 on the wii, him playing Skyrim while I play an old spiderman game, getting snacks, etc. Why can't I have more days like this? I hate real life sometimes. It's really boring and alot of work.
Also, that's the reason I haven't been on here much today: either he has my computer or I'm playing a game or both.
Mmmmm...hot sauce. How hot is it?
Yeah, how wide is the range? Not including the specialty fish sauce (we're having salmon, so I wish we had something like that!) whats the variety of spiciness? I remember you saying you got some reapers, so I know it gets pretty hot on the upper end.
Actually, the reapers came...as seeds. I misread the eBay listing.
I'm not sure exactly where the sauces lie on the Scoville scale. I don't know how to measure Scoville Units. All I know is that I think the two flavors I have are just right, whereas the Mrs says they're too hot.
That just means she thinks they're perfect as well. That sucks about the seeds, but I guess you can always buy some now and then plant those next year.
And I didn't mean scientifically how hot, just how hot in general.
That's good I like hot....
Both of my current flavors are a little hotter than Sriracha. I think the steak/BBQ sauce is a leetle hotter than the other, but it's hard to be sure. It could simply be that it's more difficult to spread a meat sauce throughout a steak than it is to spread an all-purpose sauce throughout mac n cheese or eggs.
Well if you need some outside reports on lvl of spice I'm sure we would be willing to help out ...find some small bottles (sample sizes ) and let the KC help you out man
I would be willing to pay shipping to me if that's a factor
It would be a factor. I'll see if I can find any sample-sized bottles.
I would love to test some out. I'll have to find some good food, but I'd pay shipping to taste-test some. Though I really am interested in the seafood hot sauce because, well, one, I had a large part in the inspiration, but two, because I don't really think there's that much of that kind of a market out there. Never seen anything like that, so it'd definitely be worth a try.
Alright just shoot me an email when you are ready
I may have found a local solution to my production/bottling problem!
Ooh yah? What did you find?
A local co-packer. I sent an email to see if they'll use my recipes, cause they'll let people put custom labels on the company's recipes. Their minimum order is 48 bottles, which is a lot easier to do than the Florida folks' minimum order of about 2.4k bottles.
Oh, I hope that works! That would be much nicer.
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It's been a couple years since I had pho tai, though I really love it. It was so good, but maybe a fifth of a bottle of sriracha wasn't a great idea. It tasted good, but I can already feel my body is sick of its s*** and wants to treat it the same way back. Basically, it's never as fun coming out as going in. But that's an easy price to pay for such great food. (cheap, too, at that place)
I grew up eating spicy food so Sriracha is not spicy to me habinaro is about my preferred lvl of spice when I want something spicy
Red habinaro is around 250-577k on the Scoville scale
Sriracha is 1.5-2.5k.....
Ok Sriracha looks like it's close to 5-8k... but still not hot XD
I do like the flavor....
I hate mayo but I found I like Sriracha mayo lol
I know, sriracha isn't very hot or flavorful and is completely overrated, but I put a hell of alot in there. The water was blood red.
Lol it has good flavor that's about all though
Good luck LZ. I hope the co-bottler will work with you. I am looking forward to some spicy fish sauce.
Mother Nature is currently going crazy. The high today was 57 and it's currently in the 30's but on Wednesday it will be 76.
20 degrees over 4 days? Every spring and fall we have a couple weeks when nature becomes bipolar or something and can't choose between 20s or 30s and 70s or 80s and switches between the two every few days. I think it's really fun, though everyone else hates it for some reason. They complain about one season and then complain about the next.
If I had to guess, I'd put my stuff around 10-12k. It tastes great, though.
So kinda spicy but flavorful? Sounds perfect for barbecue stuff, especially pulled pork sandwiches or some such. Don't know why, but that sounds really good right now.
Oh, the Mad Cow is excellent with pulled pork, pulled turkey, brisket....
The Original Inferno is great with eggs, burgers, burritos, anything.
So mad cow barbecue and inferno etc.? And those are just the two you have made right now. With all that testing, I'd hate to be your toilet.
I established those two a few years ago
Man I love me some hot sauce on eggs! Probably my favourite use!
I've never done that, but in hotels and my dorm's buffet, those eggs are good with salsa. I like hot sauce best on barbecue, pho tai, hot wings, and the like.
Hmm... it's quiet here for 3 am... too quiet...
very quiet....... ssshhh..... don't ruin the quietness.
Hot sauce on eggs? Nope for me. Mix it in burger meat? Sure, why not and then top it with some bacon and cheese when cooked.
Hot sauce on eggs is actually quite good.
Also, good morning kittens. I'm back from my week off....and have 45 emails in my inbox at work. >.<
Morning Corps!
At least you had a week off. I won't get any vacation leave until next year. I would love to have a week off now. There is so much I need to organize for the winter.
Morning BaKhan!