HOT SAUCE

[Ally]

Jalapeno eating contests are always good for a laugh.

 

And a sweat!

 

I love chillis, but hate the way they burn twice, if you get my drift.

 

Burning-ring-of-fire-tastic.

[Njugle]

If it was good enough for Johnny Cash, it's good enough for me

 

 

I totally agree though.

 

Maybe somebody should make an anaesthetic cream or spray for the purpose, called "Afterburner".

[L9ndh]

Encona is good but for a real kick get hold of "Dan T's White Hot Inferno" Don't forget to put some bog rolls in the freezer ready for the result...

[mutopian]

I hate spicing things. Whats the point of eating something thats too hot to enjoy.

 

Spicy food does not necessarily mean something is going to be hot.

 

I'll agree on whats the point of eating something if you can't actually taste it due to the heat.

 

Having said that there is nothing finer than a well made chili (Hambone makes a mean one!) with loads of cold beer to wash it down.

 

I'll third the Volcano Ribs - they are indeed the biz.

[Twerto]

Anything that gives you an ass like a japanese flag is not good

[teenie]

Thai sweet chilli sauce...goes we everything and anything - particularly ham and cheese toasties, or fried egg rolls. If you can, get the proper thai stuff (dunna think the co-op stocks it yet, but am no been hame for a while so i could be wrong!). Nane oh yon guff fae sharwoods. Chilli seeds all the way, it will cheer up the most plain of roll. Marvellous stuff. (also hell of a good for sweating away the roughest of hangover)

[jeemsie]

in agreement wi the thai sweet chilli sauce, seem to mind encona did a batch of it, but no been hame for a bit now so canna mind names of stuff. as far as i'm concerned the more flavour the better, i am a heavy smoker though and my sense of taste is as lacking as my sense of smell. as for 'hot' stuff, there's no point if it doesn't make your eyes water, strong flavoured foods are sadly lacking in denmark but i did have the pleasure of sampling some wasabi alongside the sushi i had the other night, made up for the relative lack of mustard in my diet of late

[teenie]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........wasabi! God i love the stuff, just enough to make your een waater and your nose burn through eating it on sushi rolls, bloomin marvellous. Anybody tried a Scotch Bonnet chilli and if so are they as mental as they are supposed to be. I love the Sarmille's garlic chilli chicken...lovely on the night of eating, not so darned good the next day!

[Njugle]

Never tried wasabi

 

Sweet chilli sauce is fantastic though, highly versatile, great in cheese rols as well as egg ones

 

Funny how there is all this talk of exotic spices (my personal muse of the moment is a mexican chilli sauce called chelula) but nobody mentions mustard, which is of course a spicy sauce. I only ever use english mustard for cooking and even then in small quantities.

 

Out of general interest: Seen any Colmans french mustard recently? No? Ken why? Cos they've stopped making it! Not spicy maybe, but the best thing with a fry up, or cheese. I was so angst ridden at it's disappearance that i phoned their helpline, to be informed that they were getting grief for monopolising the market and had to choose products to discontinue, so the french got binned! Gutted. There's no other like it.

[Ally]

That sucks! French Mustard is ace on steak and works well on pretty much any meat-based sandwich. I guess supermarket own brand stuff probably tastes the same , right?

 

Maybe it's a publicity stunt like when they were going to discontinue making salad cream until Zoe Ball and her lot launched a campaing?

[teenie]

Out of general interest: Seen any Colmans french mustard recently? No? Ken why? Cos they've stopped making it!

- nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

The dirty dirty dogs. How could they do them for a monopoly on mustard? For heevens sake, we have a globe full of mad coin hungry b'stars whooping it up beating cack out anyone who has any natural resources for grabs, and they do colmans for monopoly on the mustard market. I am weeping. WEEPING i tell you. It was the best dang thing to put in cheese sauce to give it a keek, and made the best steak sauce this side oh texas. GUTTED. Jeez, i think this may have hit me just as hard as them taking cream-ola foam off the shelves, and thats only taken me half me adult life to get over (though i still crave it when it the pits of a hellish hangover)

[Njugle]

I've tried several other brands but they are just not as good. Tragically.

[Styles]

i think this may have hit me just as hard as them taking cream-ola foam off the shelves,

 

This is from the scotsman about cremola foam and what happened to it.

 

Scots in a fizz over missing drink recipe

MURDO MACLEOD

(mmacleod@scotlandonsunday.com)

AN ICON of Scottish childhood may have lost its fizz forever. The formula for Creamola Foam, the sugary drink which hooked millions of young Scots in the 1970s and 80s, is missing.

 

The recipe for the drink, which once lurked in every Scottish larder, is now as much of a mystery as the Holy Grail, the smile on the Mona Lisa, and the location of Atlantis.

 

Despite the loss, a grassroots worldwide campaign by nostalgic Scots desperate for the return of the drink has vowed to scour cupboards to find a tin which could be analysed to figure out what made it so magical.

 

The recipes for the various flavours of the drink have been lost because the brand was sold as a portfolio of products to a company which cared more about custard than fizzy drinks.

 

The three Creamola brands, Creamola Foam, Custard and Rice, were bought by the Brands Partnership, from the international foods giant Nestlé in 1998. Brands Partnership, a Leeds-based dried foods firm, was keen to market Creamola Custard and bought the series of brands from Nestlé.

 

But in their enthusiasm to get their hands on the custard, the company did not acquire the formula for the fizzy drink, which was made by adding a sherbet-like powder to cold water and stirring frenetically while the drink foamed. The company no longer knows what that magic powder contained.

 

Nestlé says that since it sold the rights to the brand, the whereabouts of the formula is not a matter for the company. While the formula is lost in corporate limbo, the only hope is for someone to come forward with a tin of the original product.

 

A Brands Partnership spokeswoman said: "We have had a number of inquiries about bringing back Creamola Foam, mainly from Scotland, where we understand it was very popular, but we don’t plan at this stage to bring it back.

 

"There is a problem in bringing it back, that we did not acquire the formula when we bought the brand. If we wanted to recreate the product, someone would need to come to us with the formula, or someone who had some could give it to us so that we could analyse it."

 

Asked why the firm had not asked for the formula at the time, the spokeswoman replied: "We did not regard it as a priority at the time, and still do not. We are focused on custard. When we bought the rights to Creamola Foam it was not even being made then."

 

The spokeswoman had some good news for some nostalgic Scottish taste buds. Creamola Custard, once a favourite in Scots puddings, will be hitting the shelves again.

 

Originally produced in Glasgow, Creamola Foam was practically unknown south of the Border, but sold all over Scotland. It was also popular in Northern Ireland. A number of Creamola Foam nostalgia websites have sprung up, in which fans have discussed their favourite flavours, disputed the spelling (Creamola, not Cremola, is correct), hailed it as a hangover cure, and even hinted at less family-friendly uses for the drinks, such as mixing with vodka and even snorting the powder.

 

Some have argued over the number of flavours, the orange and raspberry being the most remembered, while some insist there were also lemon and even a strawberry variety.

 

Elaine Grant, a call centre adviser from Denny in Stirlingshire, is one of the deprived who have joined an internet forum clamouring for the drink to be brought back.

 

She is urging Scots to check their kitchen cupboards for old tins which could be chemically analysed so that the formula might be revived.

 

She said: "I have been trying to find it for ages. It pains me to know that I may never be able to see the return of Creamola Foam. As well as contacting the company and petitioning them, I’m putting out an appeal for people to try to find any old tins which the company could use to work out the formula. I do hope that the company will change its mind. I think it would sell well, it would be in their interests. I think children would like the novelty of being able to mix it themselves."

 

Recalling the drink, she added: "I used to fight with my brother to be able to burst open the paper on the top, and you always thought that first drink tasted best. I also sometimes also ate the powder, which sounds really disgusting, but I loved it."

 

Phil Kay, the Scottish comedian, also called for the drink to be brought back. He said: "I loved Creamola Foam. It was a part of being Scottish at that time.

 

"I think part of the attraction was the fact that you mixed it yourself. It was like your first recipe, your first chance to make something for yourself. I would love it to be brought back."

 

Kay developed his own way round the problem which afflicted every Creamola Foam drinker: the fear that the undiluted powder would become a gritty, undrinkable sludge settled at the bottom of the glass.

 

He said: "My answer was to leave the spoon in and keep stirring so the powder never sank to the bottom. That was the beauty of it, you could even have your own way of drinking it."

 

A marketing expert was last night dubious about the arguments for bringing the icon back.

 

Alan Wilson, professor of marketing at Strathclyde University, and an expert in branding, said: "Making a success of it nowadays would not be very easy. Some people would buy it for nostalgia, but they would not be the people this would be aimed at. You wonder also whether kids would want it because there is so much more on the market nowadays.

 

"I remember Creamola Foam, but I can’t remember liking it all that much, you had it in case there wasn’t any lemonade in the house.

 

"Also given the concern about obesity and the Scottish diet, I wonder how acceptable it would be."

 

A recent study showed that young Scots drink more fizzy drinks than any other European children, and the number of Scottish children who are overweight and obese has become an issue of major public concern. Phil Hanlon, professor of public health at Glasgow University, said: "Like everything else, it’s a matter of balance, an occasional glass won’t do you any harm.

 

"But we already have a problem in Scotland with the consumption of fizzy drinks. I'm not sure it’s the best thing to be nostalgic about."

 

This article: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=794012004

[JustMe]

Oh that brings back good memories.....mixing cremola foam with water from a mountain stream somewhere in Knoydart.

[nautim]

The closest thing to Cremola Foam I've tasted lately is the Love Hearts equivalent of a sherbet dip. You get a lemon, raspberry and orange powder in sachets with a sugary dipper thing. Mind you the content of each sachet is only about a tablespoon and I didn't put it in water, I just ate it. Remember that foaming feeling when you ate the Cremola foam neat?