hot-sauce "Celebrity" Hot Sauces - your thoughts?

[salsalady]

Steve Seabury and Michael Madson are a couple others that come to mind. For each of those, they actually did creat the sauces and then went to a co-packer. In Madson's case, he worked with Danny Cash. Not sure who Seabury worked with. He also has a cookbook. I know there's a couple other celebs who've developed their own sauces, not just private label, just can't think of them right now---

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

Took me all of 2 secs to find that link....

Again, it was more in general, but thanks for the link.

I saw a HeatAddicts review of Madsen's sauce. They seemed to like it. It's on my list of sauces to try.

 

[sicman]

dude if you are wanting a big time dude to throw his name and face on a bottle just shoot me a p.m.

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

Hahaha

You got it sic.

 

[SauceAuthority]

Ed over at BTH has a sauce he made with one of the Devon Allman of The Allman Brothers. I haven't personally tasted it, but i'm a pretty big fan of the other items old Ed sells

http://www.sauceauthority.com/sauce_review_manufactured_by/born-to-hula/

Not really HOT stuff, but good flavored. And Ed's a pretty good guy.

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

Hey, if a celebrity wants to partner with me on a sauce, my contact info is on here.


By the way - I want to make certain that it's clear that this topic was a general, generic question, only inspired by the notice I received about this sauce, with nothing against this sauce. I've not tried it and I have never bashed anyone's sauce and do not intend to start now. If I don't care for a sauce, I just don't talk about it.

I love CaJohn's sauces, and I have nothing against the dude from G&R (though I never really loved G&R, but that's another story) - I wish them well with their new product line. I have no axe to grind here (or "cross to bear" for those Allman Bros fans out there) and as mentioned, I totally enjoy a couple of the celebrity products (The Cheech & Newman's Own come to mind).

I was just curious as to how people felt in general about celebrity endorsed hot sauce - if it matters to people if the celeb developed the recipes for the sauce themselves or just lent their name/face to the product.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Steve Seabury and Michael Madson are a couple others that come to mind. For each of those, they actually did creat the sauces and then went to a co-packer. In Madson's case, he worked with Danny Cash. Not sure who Seabury worked with. He also has a cookbook. I know there's a couple other celebs who've developed their own sauces, not just private label, just can't think of them right now---

Steve has High River Sauces, not a celebrity sauce. I don't believe the bottle mentions his name or has his pic, and he's not a mainstream celeb.

Ed over at BTH has a sauce he made with one of the Devon Allman of The Allman Brothers. I haven't personally tasted it, but i'm a pretty big fan of the other items old Ed sells

http://www.sauceauth...y/born-to-hula/

Not really HOT stuff, but good flavored. And Ed's a pretty good guy.

Yup!

The Hot Pepper Awards
HOT SAUCE - CHIPOTLE
1st - Born to Hula - Devon Allman's Chipotle Blues

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

1st - Born to Hula - Devon Allman's Chipotle Blues

I happen to be a HUGE Allman Bros fan (reading "Skydog, the Duane Allman Story" right now in fact) - I'll have to give this sauce a try.

Ha - I've answered my own question.


Kidding - I'm more interested in it because it won a THPA.

 

[SauceAuthority]

That's too much of a coincidence.

 

[JayT]

Does anyone here know CaJohn personally to ask them about this product line?

I do, what specifically do you want to know about it? You mean like if it is one of his sauce, which one? I don't know if he will reveal that.

I was just curious as to how people felt in general about celebrity endorsed hot sauce - if it matters to people if the celeb developed the recipes for the sauce themselves or just lent their name/face to the product.

For me, while I do not rule celebrity sauces out, I don't seek them out either. What I have found is that usually they are a hot sauce maker or co-packer's sauce that they sell under many labels. Or, it could be a maker's sauce that doesn't sell that well, and they want to give it a new name to boost sales. I have really not had many that impressed me. A couple of Blair's Zack Wylde sauces weren't too bad I guess, but other than that, not so much.

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

Yeah - more just "is that sauce the result of Bumblefoot's developing a hot sauce" or is it merely them partnering up with his face & CaJohn's sauce.

It's not earth-shatteringly important either way, but I like knowing that about products.

Overall I guess I don't mind it either way - helps to bring attention to the industry, which is good for everyone.

 

[JayT]

I will ask Cajohn for you, but it probably won't be for a couple days. He is pretty busy at ZF right now.

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

No rush & not that important really - the mail I got about it just made me wonder about celebrity sauces in general.

I definitely don't intend to come off negatively in any way. As mentioned, I'm a fan of CaJohn's sauces.

And yeah - isn't he "chief product consultant" or something this year?

 

[JayT]

Not sure, this is what he was doing yesterday...

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that's him of the far left.

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

lmfao - looks like a tough job! Haha

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Looks like Bumblefoot won some Zest Fest awards.

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

Yep! Saw that - must be good! I'm intrigued - will have to go order some tonight!