Tabasco Sauce

[Kukri]

“Like onions, no ship should be without Tabasco sauce. It gives a relish to the plainest fare, and is probably a powerful germicide.”
-H.W. Tilman, “Triumph and Tribulation”, Nautical Publishing Company, 1977.

Is there anyone who puts to sea without onions and Tabasco sauce?

 

[Bajansailor]

Barbados pepper sauce is much better than Tabasco any day (but I may be a bit biased).
And you can even buy it by the gallon here if required.
Or you can make it at home -
Barbados Recipes: Bajan Pepper Sauce

Do I dare add Fray Bentos pies to your list? Or hard tack biscuits?

 

[Tradewinds]

A favourite in our house.


I just love that they've put it in a rum bottle. (sadly they've switched to plastic)

 

[mjcoon]

When sailing south until the butter melts, should one also substitute the Tabasco by Angostura bitters, also supposedly medicinal?

 

[capnsensible]

Onions most definitely yes.

Tobasco? No thanks.

Interesting, spell check doo dah.

 

[Kukri]

Barbados pepper sauce is much better than Tabasco any day (but I may be a bit biased). And you can even buy it by the gallon here if required. Or you can make it at home - Barbados Recipes: Bajan Pepper Sauce Do I dare add Fray Bentos pies to your list? Or hard tack biscuits? Thanks for the advice and for the recipe. Fray Bentos pies and a few tins of corned beef, of course, but getting good hard tack biscuits is extremely difficult in this nook shotten isle of Albion, and getting tinned butter is impossible.

 

[Yngmar]

Wife prefers the Piri-Piri from Portugal. I dislike it, but then she hates the Thai fish sauce I'm partial to

People can be funny about their sauces. Last winter a frenchman entrusted us with his precious jar of caribbean spicy sauce (can't get this here he kept saying) to keep cool in our fridge over winter and brought us a box of food and drink as reward when he returned to reclaim it.

 

[Blueboatman]

Yup
Food tastes so good at sea
A well appointed galley is a happy ship

 

[burgundyben]

When sailing south until the butter melts, should one also substitute the Tabasco by Angostura bitters, also supposedly medicinal?

I thought Angostura had gone now?

 

[Boathook]

When sailing south until the butter melts, should one also substitute the Tabasco by Angostura bitters, also supposedly medicinal?

When I was last on board the butter was melting on the Dorset coast.

 

[Kukri]

I thought Angostura had gone now?

Horrors! Can this be true? I depend on the stuff!

 

[Corribee Boy]

Still seems to be available on the internet. I haven't been to Tesco to check there!

 

[Slowboat35]

You can't make a Bloody Mary without Tabasco so of course the voyage would be impossible.

Imagine trying to make one wIth Aunt Mary's Bajan nuclear deterrent!

As for Angostura Bitters. How is gin consumed in their absence?

 

[Clancy Moped]

You can't make a Bloody Mary without Tabasco so of course the voyage would be impossible.

Imagine trying to make one wIth Aunt Mary's Bajan nuclear deterrent!

As for Angostura Bitters. How is gin consumed in their absence?

You need Da bomb beyond insanity to get that bloody mary to kick.

 

[laika]

I thought Angostura had gone now?

Thankfully very much no. Might you be thinking of shrub? Without angostura to add to one's gin how is one supposed to stave off sea sickness. As Slowboat35 points out, what kind of modern madness is the notion that one can make a Bloody Mary with Nando's peri-peri sauce or anything which isn't tabasco?

 

[Kukri]

Angostura also goes into my favourite hot weather thirst quencher:

Gunner (cocktail) - Wikipedia

Wiki fails to mention the ice; perhaps that is understood.

 

[Momac]

Which Tabasco?

 

[Kukri]

All of the above

 

[laika]

Which Tabasco?

The original, ie the red one, number 2 counting from the left in your pic.

The others may have their place but that place certainly isn't in a Bloody Mary. If we're opening the discussion up to the non-essential reasons for tabasco, all the competition comes into play.

 

[Kukri]

The original, ie the red one, number 2 counting from the left in your pic.

The others may have their place but that place certainly isn't in a Bloody Mary. If we're opening the discussion up to the non-essential reasons for tabasco, all the competition comes into play.

This is correct.