We took a lovely spring break trip to Fort Morgan, and decided to give Sassy Bass another try after a mixed review our first visit. The Sassy Bass fresh catch special is a winner, and also eminently defensible from a healthy eating perspective.
After dinner, we ambled one door south to the attached market, which is actually pretty well-stocked for a convenient-to-the-beach stuck-on-a-restaurant sort of establishment. On an endcap close to the register, I spied a bunch of Sassy Bass-labeled products, and a heat-specific search yielded Chunky Five Pepper Super Hot Sauce.
Now, you shouldn’t think this stuff really has much to do with Sassy Bass. This is third-party merchandise that anyone can relabel as their own. There’s a bunch of products like this at U.G. White in Athens too. (Wow, do I miss when that was a real old-fashioned hardware store and not a boutique. Another post though.)
So checking my camera roll, it would appear that uncharacteristically, I didn’t get a photo of the ingredients panel, but I remember having low expectations. There was a lot of water and not a lot of hot ingredients.
Imagine my surprise when this was really pretty good.
It’s a stretch to call it a sauce (even a chunky one). This should be labeled salsa. It’s pretty, with vegetable chunks and bits of spice. It has a vibrant and robust flavor with a little sweetness and non-trivial (even building a bit!) heat. I ate about half the bottle filling up Tostitos Scoops with it, and I think our children did about the same with the other half of the bottle.
If you find yourself at Sassy Bass way down Fort Morgan Road and you’d like a little piquancy to take back to the crib with you, look for Chunky Five Pepper Super Hot Sauce.
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