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With the success of "Hot Ones", hot sauce is the new identity craze.

I know, this is HN, so a dozen people are gonna say "Well, -I'VE- like hot sauce since insert year." I get it. You're badass.

But this is just the latest trend. Which I enjoy. Sriracha is sugary syrup in my opinion, and lousiana style is just blah ... the Hot Sauce craze has led to some really tasty alternatives. See: Torchbearer.

But when the trend finally fades, we'll all go back to enjoying Sambal Oelek, the OG hotsauce.

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That's a goofy take. I'm not a badass, but I grew up with hot sauce in local restaurants. My dad loved hot foods before color television was a thing. Billions of people in equatorial regions have been eating hot peppers for centuries (and millennia, if you're Bolivian[0]).

Hot sauce is about as faddish as corn and tomatoes.

Seriously, do they not have curries where you live?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_pepper

Thanks for proving my point.

> I know, this is HN, so a dozen people are gonna say "Well, -I'VE- like hot sauce since insert year." I get it. You're badass.

I know this is the internet, and it's traditional to invent people to be mad at, but in this case the person you're mad at is .... someone who has liked hot sauce since before Hot Ones?

I don't even know what Hot Ones is, bizarre thing to say, as if 'hot sauce' is in any way a new concept or even just newly commercialised. I loved Tabasco hot sauce and chilli peppers in general as a small child (and forever since).

Of course that doesn't mean it can't be or isn't a current craze, but it's hardly been a niche interest since.. idk, some time not too long after Portuguese colonialism brought chillies out of South America ca. 16th-18th C.s?

I think it’s a YouTube series?

Thanks for proving my point.

Your point is absurd nonsense, at least without making any attempt to explain why/back up the claim that any significant number of people were somehow unaware of hot sauce until whatever Hot Ones is happened.

Yes, I tend to disagree. You took my post way to seriously, it offended you. Relax.

Thanks for proving my point.

You're welcome, my pleasure! Try not to get so worked up in the future about hot sauce, and people who like it.

Not a comment about me, but anyone that has lived in the southwest has been exposed to hot sauce for at least as long as I've been alive. Not really sure about hot sauce being an identity craze.

You seriously think “Hot Ones” popularised hot sauce?

Yo bartender, I’ll have what he’s having.

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