Retro Sweet Heat from Hot-Headz!

Recently someone asked a question on a Facebook page about whether anyone made a Plum hot sauce.  Well we did many years ago!  In fact it was the best seller in the range of tropical fruit sauces that we released at the time.

The range was packed in a "special" bottle for us.  So special in fact that we couldn't re-order and had to change our labels to fit the standard 5oz/148ml bottle all hot sauces used.  You live and you learn eh?

Although chilliheads in the USA may have been getting used to the idea of sweet heat and fruit based chilli sauces, when we launched these in the UK some 12 years ago and told people that the Mango & Pineapple and Kiwi Lime hot pepper sauces were great with ice cream, fruit salads, meringues and pastries they were shocked!  Now that kind of use is mainstream.

The range consisted of:

Burning Passions Plum Hot Pepper Sauce - a delicious blend of plum, tamarind and raisins with chilli.

Mystical Mango & Pineapple Hot Pepper Sauce - a wonderful mix of pineapple, mango, tamarind, red chilli.

Kickin' Kiwi Lime Hot Pepper Sauce - a sharp blast of kiwi, lime and chilli.

Also in the range but not in the sweet heat category we had Scorchin' Scotch Bonnet and Crazy Caribbean which sold very well indeed.  As you can see from the image below, all of these featured my (Dr. Hotz!) mug slap bang on the front of the label with varying degrees of smoke blasting from my ears and nose.  Exciting back in those days but corny in retrospect!

The plum in particular was great with stir fries and good with chicken, duck or lamb.  I think we dropped the line because the market for super hot took off and the flavour of these beauties was lost on the crowds when we were burning people up at shows with the likes of Insanity Sauce, Blair's After Death, Mad Dog Inferno and Endorphin Rush, all of which were so sensationally hot at the time that punters at shows were literally in a frenzy!  Would you fellow Hot-Headz! like to see a return of this range?  If so I promise we'll make the labels better next time around.....

Well I hope you enjoyed this brief trip down memory lane.  There's plenty more where this came from as I've been selling hot sauces for quite a while in case you didn't realise!

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Thanks & Have a Hot Day!

Dr. Hotz!