Our secret recipe delivers the spicy punch of select peppers without covering up the natural flavor of food. It's a great way to add new life to old recipes, or use straight from the bottle on just about anything.
AARON:
I picked this up because I liked the name, myself being a native Appalachian. I could see pepper flakes floating around in the lava-like red liquid. This looks hot!
The plastic cap seal states boldy, ZESTY Flavor from the Smoky Mountains! I also was a sucker for the bottle-art--looks like home! Julia does have a bit of a point about the mountains though.
I open the bottle and vinegary hotness strikes at me as I imagine a Satanic pickle that is on fire would. I taste... It is good, very good!
I love the tartness of the vinegar along with the bold dose of heat. The pepper flakes really do it for me! I'm afraid that plain liquid hot sauce will be a bit boring for me now.
Julia and I went through a third of the bottle while testing...well, mostly it was me! ( ^_^ ) I can't wait to try more of the Try Me sauces!
I give Try Me Tennessee Sushine 5 out of 5 peppers!
JULIA:
After being completely grossed out by the flesh-toned plug of dried gunk I had to fish out of the last hot sauce, I had my doubts about Aaron's next choice.
I was very pleased when upon opening the seal and removing the cap, I find that the top of the glass bottle has a plastic drip spout. YEAH! No gross plug! This has earned one point already! The color and consistency are nice. No real separation, but the bottle recommended a good shake before use. I like the pepper seeds and flakes in the sauce--this gives it more of a FRESH MADE feel.
Unlike Aaron, I was not impressed with the cover art or the name. I thought it was a selling ploy to draw in hillbilly minds. It brought to mind a washing detergent advertisement: TENNESSEE BREEZE or something.
When it came to taste, this sauce packed a PUNCH! The after-heat was very mild, though not wimpy, by any means. I needed a drink of something to cool off a bit. My mouth is not as refined to hell sauce as Aaron's is--I thought the vinegar was fairly mild. I did not get the sweet aftertaste that I expect from most of the sugared non-Name Brand sauces.
Overall, I give Try Me Tennessee Sunshine 3.5 out of 5 peppers. Again, I was not impressed by the label art or the name. I would have called it Hillbilly Hot Sauce and had a moon-shiner on the cover if I was going to claim mountain fame. The distributor from Louisiana has probably never been to the Appalachian Mountains because the cover art has hills instead of mountains on it!
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