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Tkromer said:
Well done! I saw that one on Ebay last week, but I just didn't have the cash. I thought all those were sent out so you got the same # on both the 2am and 3am though?
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I'm not sure. But these, at cost I might add, were too sweet a deal to pass up....

.....even though I didn't really have the $$ to spare.:crazy:

Merry Christmas to ME!
 
DEFCON Creator said:
People collect many different things for many different reasons.
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I beg to differ from you sir.I know that you are a well known creator of good sauces.

If you cook food, it has to be fit to be eaten

Just for the sake of selling Hottest extract, if you are marketing a sauce which is unfit for human consumption, then it escapes my rustic brain as to why in the first place someone would make it. Any Tom, Dick or Harry can bottle Capsaicin oil and market it in a fancy packing.

Anyhow this gives me an ":idea:Idea"
I can make a sammich with razor blades in place of Ham and chicken and market it calling it as "DEADLY SAMMICH"

NJA
 
Naga Jolokia Addict said:
I beg to differ from you sir.I know that you are a well known creator of good sauces.

If you cook food, it has to be fit to be eaten

Just for the sake of selling Hottest extract, if you are marketing a sauce which is unfit for human consumption, then it escapes my rustic brain as to why in the first place someone would make it. Any Tom, Dick or Harry can bottle Capsaicin oil and market it in a fancy packing.

Anyhow this gives me an ":idea:Idea"
I can make a sammich with razor blades in place of Ham and chicken and market it calling it as "DEADLY SAMMICH"

NJA
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Although I appreciate your wit and humor, you ARE posting in the collectors forum. I will respectfully disagree with you on this. It's a hobby and that is basically all there is to it. The sauce could be the greatest stuff on earth or the contents could be expelled from a dog's anal glands.....but neither really mattters. It's the collectability and implied value to us and to others....just like any of the other hobbies. (see all prior comments on this subject) I don't feel the need to justify my motives when it comes to this facet of my life. Suffice it to say.......I just enjoy it. :)

Please don't make fun of the few of us here that collect. It's just not cool.

;)

Now, have a beer and carry on.
 
paulky_2000 said:
Although I appreciate your wit and humor, you ARE posting in the collectors forum. I will respectfully disagree with you on this. It's a hobby and that is basically all there is to it. The sauce could be the greatest stuff on earth or the contents could be expelled from a dog's anal glands.....but neither really mattters. It's the collectability and implied value to us and to others....just like any of the other hobbies. (see all prior comments on this subject) I don't feel the need to justify my motives when it comes to this facet of my life. Suffice it to say.......I just enjoy it. :)

Please don't make fun of the few of us here that collect. It's just not cool.

;)

Now, have a beer and carry on.
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paulky,

I understand.
I get it that it is an individual's prerogative what he does with what. I, NOW, understand that there is something called Hobby to collect signature sauces too !!.

Sorry if I treaded on your's or Defcon's toes.
It was purely unintentional.

Since I am a teatotaller, I cannot have a beer.
So I will take an extra helping of my NJ Pickle and atone for my sin...:lol:

Sorry once again Defcon and sorry to you too.

NJA
 
No appologies needed.

We all have our quirks.....this one just happens to be mine!

And yes....I am insane. Just ask anyone here!;)
 
Naga Jolokia Addict said:
Sorry if I treaded on your's or Defcon's toes. It was purely unintentional.
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You're not treading on my toes a bit, but I am glad to see you understand there is quite a large number of hot sauce collectors out there. I have met a very large number of collectors over the years at various trade shows and Defcon events, and I am glad to have met every one of them. Not because they are customers, but because they share a passion for the industry that we together help build.
 
Defcon,

Thanks for letting me know that I did not hurt you.
Passion.......yes. Very few have a passion for our kinda high.

Hope that we meet some time , somewhere.

NJA
 
Actually I think this and other forums were created for people that "have a passion for our kinda high" Chileheads are taking over the world, and collectables are a part of the chile movement:)lol
 
POTAWIE said:
Actually I think this and other forums were created for people that "have a passion for our kinda high" Chileheads are taking over the world, and collectables are a part of the chile movement:)lol
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Ackzakly.....There was an article in an Indian news paper which I am reproducing here.

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SAGA JOLOKIA....New fad of US Hot pepper lovers
Indian chilli acquires cult following in US


Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN 5 September 2009, 09:41pm IST
WASHINGTON:

Nearly a decade after it was first discovered to be the hottest chilli on earth, the Indian firecracker named Bhut Jolokia, aka Naga Jolokia, has acquired a cult following in the west among so-called chilli-heads.

That's right; like Dead-heads, who idolize the rock group Grateful Dead, and gear-heads who worship all things mechanical, chilli-heads revere some of the hottest chillis on the planet. And they don’t come hotter than Bhut (or Naga) Jolokia, so-named because it is native to the fiery Naga tribe, and those who taste it are said to turn ghostly.

Measured at more than one million Scofield Heat Units (SHU), Bhut Jolokia is twice as hot as the previous champ -– California’s Red Savina -- who it worsted earlier this decade (Mexican pretenders like Habanero were no match). Since then, the little hottie has become a legend among chilli-heads, grown tenderly in hothouses across the country, discussed animatedly in the higher reaches of the spice world, and sold like gold and other precious commodity on the Internet. Last month, there were 92 Jolokia related items on eBay.

''Bhut Jolokia is a beauty,'' chortled John Hard, whose Ohio-based company CaJohn (after Cajun) sells the Indian chilli in several forms, mostly sauces. ''There are lots of pretenders cranked up with oleoresins, but BJ delivers both flavor and heat in a natural way.''

Hard first heard of the fiery Indian chilli after New Mexico State University's Chilli-Pepper Institute followed up on the claims of the Indian Ministry of Defence and found that its assertion of having found the hottest chilli in the world was true (It's not hard to guess what the MoD is using it for). Word quickly got around the esoteric (or, es-hot-teric) world of chilli-heads, and before long, it was being grown with feverish passion.

Its a tough task in the US, where the weather in most parts of the country is not exactly conducive to growing jolokias. Barbara Blankenship, a radiologist, and her husband Toby Morris, a fire-fighter, have just about managed to coax a few saplings in their greenhouse outside Seattle, a city better known for its cool, damp climate. ''We wanted to grow it after reading about it in a cooking magazine,†says Blankenship, an ardent gardener. ''We got the seed from Seedrack.com down in Oregon and we now have five plants that are doing well.''

Toby has a more involved explanation about why jolokia has become such a hot commodity. ''I think Americans are pretty fascinated with things that are the oldest, biggest, whateverest,†he says, recalling that he grew up with a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records. In the Fire Service, his colleagues were always trying to make the hottest chili (soupy dish); not always the tastiest, just the hottest. “Maybe it is that there aren't too many dragons for a guy to slay anymore and no frontiers to conquer?'' he wonders.

But the Seattle couple's saplings are yet to bear any glowing results. John ''CaJohn'' Hard, who is also a former fire-fighter, has been quicker off the blocks. Last month, when he spoke to ToI, he had a jolokia plant that bore six chilli pods.

But across US, and in fact, even in Europe (who would have thunk?) chilli-heads are starting to crank them out with increasing success, says CaJohn. Most of the stuff is still imported from India though, from a company in Tezpur.

CaJohn has a whole array of Jolokia products, most of them priced around $ 10 for a bottle. The first of them is called Holy Jolokia, but the rest, driven by the owners spicy fervor, has lapsed into blasphemy.

When Hard came up with a Jolokia sauce and named it Nagasaurus, an artist who did the label for the bottle joked that it should be named ''Naga-sore-ass.'' He did, and the sore-ass label now outsells the saurus by 40 to one. Next up, CaJohn came up with ''Kiss my Bhut.''

Its the beginning of Saga Jolokia.

Report in Times Of India 5th sept 2009

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NJA
 
DEFCON Creator said:
Who? Little 'ol meeee?

Here's a majority of the Blair stuff (notice the white top Firecracker 500):

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Not into collecting or really like Blairs even tho i haven't given them a chance only trying one sauce but really nice collection!

I love the wax! ;)
 
Hophead said:
Not into collecting or really like Blairs even tho i haven't given them a chance only trying one sauce but really nice collection!
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Thanks man. I actually started collecting the Blair's collectibles before our company even existed. It started small, as all collections do, but over time you kind of get addicted, as with any collectible.

That being said, I am looking for a certain Blairs Reserve, called the "Special Encore". I do have some rather rare bottles I would be willing to trade with to get one.
 
DEFCON Creator said:
There are only 24 of them.
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I really am amazed just how MANY reserves there are in the Blair's world. Just in this series, there were blue topped, red topped, white topped, and some (I have heard) even came out with gold-dipped skulls. And THEN...there was supposedly ONE that was completely unique...and if you were shipped this bottle, Blair gave you something as a prize...but I never heard what it looked like, nor what the "prize" was. And if this wasn't enough to boggle your mind.....there's the "Special Encore" with the purple top to add to the frenzy.

OOOOOFF!!!

A guy could go nuts trying to complete a set of ALL the reserves...but I AM trying!
 
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