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Review: Clancy’s Fancy Hot Sauce
Posted on 01.11.08 by Justin @ 8:22 am | Comments: |
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Clancy's Fancy Hot Sauce
Clancy’s fancy (HOT)

First impression: Looking at the bottle I have no idea what to expect from this sauce, after reading the long list of ingredients, I still had no idea what to expect. There are some unique ingredients in there and I can’t even imagine what this sauce would taste like. I took a closer look at the bottle and even though it’s a dark bottle I could see separation going on with the thicker stuff on top and a darker thinner on bottom, (I don’t remember if this bottle was right side up in the fridge or laying down or what, but the point is that it separated.) It has an oriental type of pattern on the front, but it is distributed from Ann Arbor, MI.

First taste: The first taste was along the lines of what I expected from the oriental style label, like something I would put on an egg roll, but it was unlike anything I had ever had before. It’s got a good thickness to it, and even though its kind of a gritty texture, it is good. I can barely taste the vinegar at all even though it’s the very top ingredient. The side of the bottle offers a brief description and it says “ pungent savory, deliciously different. Enjoy it in soups, salads, marinades, pizza, seafood, eggs……. Any way you fancy!” I started this review over a month ago and I really don’t know what to add to that. I have had it on all those suggestions except salad just trying to figure out what to say about this sauce. I even took it to Thanksgiving dinner and had people tell me what they thought of it, all I got was “it’s different”. A lot of the ingredients I have never had, some I don’t even know what they are.

My first taste test was on a stir-fry with Chinese noodles and it didn’t really work for me, the pizza didn’t work either but other than that it went well on everything I tried including a ham and cheese hot pocket. One complaint I have about this sauce is that the top doesn’t unscrew and I hate trying to shake my sauces out of a tiny little hole. I usually use a lot of sauce on each meal and it also gets the top messy trying to shake it out. One of the ingredients that I do recognize is bouillon concentrate, which could be a reason the flavor of it went so well in soup. It gives the sauce a meaty hamburger type flavor that really sets it apart from other sauces. I went online to do a little research and found a few interesting facts. Like for example that this sauce is uncooked when bottled.

CLANCY’S FANCY HOT SAUCE
Bottle (3.75 oz), $5.50
From Ann Arbor, MI, Clancy’s Fancy was developed by Colleen Clancy as a mixture she would give to friends for their culinary delight. In 1979, the sauce was officially produced for the public and has grown into a hometown favorite. It’s entire preparation is hands-on and only uses the freshest, natural ingredients. Combining Michigan apple cider vinegar, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, Michigan wildflower honey, Hawaiian ginger, paprika, and cayenne peppers, it’s one of the few hot sauces in the world that remains uncooked. This allows the ingredients to mingle inside the bottle to create well-balanced sauce of fire and flavor.

I also found a recipe for chicken wings that sounded good on the site above, but unfortunately I’m out of sauce so you’ll have to try that one yourself.

Ingredients: We use all natural ingredients! Apple cider vinegar, first pressing raw green olive oil, cayenne and sweet peppers, organic wheat free tamari, (water, organic soybeans, salt, organic alcohol), bouillon concentrate (hydrolyzed soya protein, molasses, vinegar, water, potassium chloride, lemon and orange juice powders, dulse, dried peppermint leaves) raw Michigan honey, fresh garlic, and fresh ginger juice.

Taste: 6/10 at first I didn’t like it, but by the end of the bottle it got to the point I was imagining what I could put it on when I got home from work. It’s so different from anything I have ever had before that I liked it just for that reason alone. I probably will buy it again but only because it is sold locally, I most likely wouldn’t order it again. It is good though and it definitely deserves some points for being different.
Smell: same as the taste so 6/10
Heat: it has very little heat. 1/10
Overall: 6/10

Clancy’s Fancy Hot Sauce
410 West Washington St. Ann Arbor, MI 48103
(734) 663-4338


Chilehead Comments:
Posted by: Justin - Categories: Uncategorized
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Comment #1:
Comment by Buddah (566) - 1/11/2008 @ 4:22 pm | [ Quote ]

So this is the sauce you told me about. Sounds like you came to grips with it after all. It is always good to find something that challenges your tastebuds. Many people try something for the first time, and they then have a blanket statement and say, “I don’t like ____.” When someone tells me they don’t like chicken, I look at them and wonder what world they are from. Chicken is so versatile, so you can have it so many ways, and it will won’t taste the same in each different recipe. The same thought goes for hot sauce. Someone might not like tabasco, but they can’t clump them all together because each one is unique in it’s own way.

I would love to sample this one, but only if I run into it somewhere. Great review Justin. Put your emotions out there and tell us how it confused you makes it something we can all relate to one way or another.

Comment #2:
Comment by thetruth (142) - 1/11/2008 @ 5:14 pm | [ Quote ]

Got to tell you it really sounds like you were not up to doing a review on this sauce!!What happened one of those days?

Comment #3:
Comment by thetruth (142) - 1/11/2008 @ 5:16 pm | [ Quote ]

Buddah on 1/11/2008 at 4:22 pm said:

So this is the sauce you told me about. Sounds like you came to grips with it after all. It is always good to find something that challenges your tastebuds. Many people try something for the first time, and they then have a blanket statement and say, “I don’t like ____.” When someone tells me they don’t like chicken, I look at them and wonder what world they are from. Chicken is so versatile, so you can have it so many ways, and it will won’t taste the same in each different recipe. The same thought goes for hot sauce. Someone might not like tabasco, but they can’t clump them all together because each one is unique in it’s own way.

I would love to sample this one, but only if I run into it somewhere. Great review Justin. Put your emotions out there and tell us how it confused you makes it something we can all relate to one way or another.

Just wondering… if you would like to try this sauce why would you not buy it rather than just waiting and hopeing you run into it somewhere?

Comment #4:
Comment by Buddah (566) - 1/11/2008 @ 5:20 pm | [ Quote ]

thetruth on 1/11/2008 at 5:16 pm said:

Just wondering… if you would like to try this sauce why would you not buy it rather than just waiting and hopeing you run into it somewhere?

I have lost some of my storage area in my apt, so I can’t buy much more until I start going through the ones I all ready have. So I am going to be pickier in choosing anything before I either sample it or I hear more than one person on a review give it a semi-thumbs up.

Comment #5:
Comment by Buddah (566) - 1/11/2008 @ 5:23 pm | [ Quote ]

Also…since I will be at in NM for the FF’s, I will also be able to sample and test much more products than I normally would have a chance to. If I see Clancy’s Fancy, I will be sure to try it out for myself.

Comment #6:
Comment by kat (1) - 1/11/2008 @ 5:39 pm | [ Quote ]

Ingredients you don’t recognize? Dulse is a type of seaweed. Tamari is soy sauce. :) Sounds intriguing!

Comment #7:
Comment by DK (2470) - 1/11/2008 @ 5:41 pm | [ Quote ]

Great review Justin. I think your honesty of being puzzled by the sauce really shows just how different this stuff really is. It’s got me really curious about it and I’ve added it to my list of “to get” bottles just because it seems to be so different than a regular sauce. Even though you are unfamiliar with some of the ingredients, you were still fairly descriptive in the review. It didn’t seem as if you struggled with the review, but maybe just with the unfamiliar qualities of the sauce. Unfamiliar is good. Makes ya think. You come across as thinking out what your were writing, carefully choosing words to best describe something you can’t describe. I thought it was a great job. :D

Comment #8:
Comment by thetruth (142) - 1/11/2008 @ 7:03 pm | [ Quote ]

Buddah on 1/11/2008 at 5:20 pm said:

I have lost some of my storage area in my apt, so I can’t buy much more until I start going through the ones I all ready have. So I am going to be pickier in choosing anything before I either sample it or I hear more than one person on a review give it a semi-thumbs up.

Wow that many sauces huh? well get busy i would love to see some reviews from you!

Comment #9:
Comment by Buddah (566) - 1/11/2008 @ 7:26 pm | [ Quote ]

thetruth on 1/11/2008 at 7:03 pm said:

Wow that many sauces huh? well get busy i would love to see some reviews from you!

Come on over to tastethefear(link in my signature) and see some. I have a 7-man Mardi Gras Dip Review coming out soon, and I did a 4-man spicy hab mustard review that HSB did at one point with just 1 person’s opinion. So truth, I appreciate your interest and support, thanks. I look forward to your comments, I have always valued your opinion.

Comment #10:
Comment by justin (159) - 1/11/2008 @ 7:33 pm | [ Quote ]

thetruth on 1/11/2008 at 5:14 pm said:

Got to tell you it really sounds like you were not up to doing a review on this sauce!!What happened one of those days?

this was the hardest sauce i have reviewed so far, its not that i wasnt up to reviewing it but just had trouble reviewing it. i finished aff the entire bottle before completing the review but still struggled with the right words. if it wasnt for the boullion in it i wouldnt of know what to say.

Comment #11:
Comment by thetruth (142) - 1/11/2008 @ 7:51 pm | [ Quote ]

Buddah on 1/11/2008 at 7:26 pm said:

Come on over to tastethefear(link in my signature) and see some. I have a 7-man Mardi Gras Dip Review coming out soon, and I did a 4-man spicy hab mustard review that HSB did at one point with just 1 person’s opinion. So truth, I appreciate your interest and support, thanks. I look forward to your comments, I have always valued your opinion.

Its no secret that im not a big fan of ttf…. wish you would do some reviews on here.. i like your views!!! just not a big fan of the people at ttf. nothing personal like i have said before..

Comment #12:
Comment by thetruth (142) - 1/11/2008 @ 8:13 pm | [ Quote ]

justin on 1/11/2008 at 7:33 pm said:

this was the hardest sauce i have reviewed so far, its not that i wasnt up to reviewing it but just had trouble reviewing it. i finished aff the entire bottle before completing the review but still struggled with the right words. if it wasnt for the boullion in it i wouldnt of know what to say.

Your reviews are always on the money..Like i said it just seemed that you had trouble with this one

Comment #13:
Comment by Buddah (566) - 1/11/2008 @ 9:43 pm | [ Quote ]

Thanks for the kind words. I enjoy the atmosphere at TTF, and I was honored when Tracy asked me to do my own version of reviews there. I get to be myself filled with my endless ramblings that might not go over well with everyone here. So out of loyalty, I do a few reviews over there from time to time.

I understand the touchy feelings between you all and no one can help from noticing the words thrown out at each other. All I got to say is treat people like you want to be treated, and never sink down their level because once you do, you are no better than they are. One more cliche…Kill them with kindness. You might hate a guy a helluva lot, but what is going to say when you say, “Hey, how you doing today? Kids doing good, wife? Have a nice day.” Yeah, they might try to push your buttons, but after a while things do change. Who knows, in person you might actually get along with them?

I met Blane, he is one big softy with a heart in the right spot, but he likes to tease people and watch them snap. lol Hey don’t we all in a way? DK, speaks from the heart, and would bend over backwards for someone who needed his help if he could. They are not all bad people. Things have gotten worse because it is what it is, but it doesn’t mean things can’t change. Your ID is thetruth, how about calling a truce. Be the first, reach out and see what happens. You guys can continue to beat on each other’s posts with smartarse comments, but it serves no purpose other than to insult and demean the other person in a public forum.

I am sure Blane will just tell me to mind my own business and shut up, but I speak my mind too. I am about the peace, we have too much hate in the world, and if I can help one person turn the corner on their emotion then I will continue to sing that song.

TTF is about expression, smacktalk, and voicing one’s opinion freely, but it is about the Chilehead Community and the friendship that continues to grow within it’s words. I was happy you came over to say a few words even if 1/2 of them were directed at Blane. The longer you hang, the more you want to jump into the conversation.

See I am longwinded like my reviews. Sorry not the forum for this, but Justin did such a nice job with this review because he said what was on his mind and we saw a part of him that we haven’t seen before in his reviews. That is what I see when I read Brendan a lot. Lots of personality within his reviews and we are taken for a journey. Justin took us on his journey and that is why the review was fun to read.

Okay I am finally done. Good night. :D

Comment #14:
Comment by Uncle Big (557) - 1/11/2008 @ 10:53 pm | [ Quote ]

Buddah on 1/11/2008 at 9:43 pm said:

Thanks for the kind words. I enjoy the atmosphere at TTF, and I was honored when Tracy asked me to do my own version of reviews there. I get to be myself filled with my endless ramblings that might not go over well with everyone here. So out of loyalty, I do a few reviews over there from time to time.

I understand the touchy feelings between you all and no one can help from noticing the words thrown out at each other. All I got to say is treat people like you want to be treated, and never sink down their level because once you do, you are no better than they are. One more cliche…Kill them with kindness. You might hate a guy a helluva lot, but what is going to say when you say, “Hey, how you doing today? Kids doing good, wife? Have a nice day.” Yeah, they might try to push your buttons, but after a while things do change. Who knows, in person you might actually get along with them?

I met Blane, he is one big softy with a heart in the right spot, but he likes to tease people and watch them snap. lol Hey don’t we all in a way? DK, speaks from the heart, and would bend over backwards for someone who needed his help if he could. They are not all bad people. Things have gotten worse because it is what it is, but it doesn’t mean things can’t change. Your ID is thetruth, how about calling a truce. Be the first, reach out and see what happens. You guys can continue to beat on each other’s posts with smartarse comments, but it serves no purpose other than to insult and demean the other person in a public forum.

I am sure Blane will just tell me to mind my own business and shut up, but I speak my mind too. I am about the peace, we have too much hate in the world, and if I can help one person turn the corner on their emotion then I will continue to sing that song.

TTF is about expression, smacktalk, and voicing one’s opinion freely, but it is about the Chilehead Community and the friendship that continues to grow within it’s words. I was happy you came over to say a few words even if 1/2 of them were directed at Blane. The longer you hang, the more you want to jump into the conversation.

See I am longwinded like my reviews. Sorry not the forum for this, but Justin did such a nice job with this review because he said what was on his mind and we saw a part of him that we haven’t seen before in his reviews. That is what I see when I read Brendan a lot. Lots of personality within his reviews and we are taken for a journey. Justin took us on his journey and that is why the review was fun to read.

Okay I am finally done. Good night. :D

Very moving Buddah. Well said.
Move over Henry Kissinger, there’s a new sherriff in town.
Kumbaya my Lord, Kumbaya… ;)

Comment #15:
Comment by Bret (2985) - 1/11/2008 @ 11:52 pm | [ Quote ]

Uncle Big on 1/11/2008 at 10:53 pm said:

Very moving Buddah. Well said.
Move over Henry Kissinger, there’s a new sherriff in town.
Kumbaya my Lord, Kumbaya… ;)

Darn UB now I want to go sit around a camp fire.

Comment #16:
Comment by Scottie (54) - 1/12/2008 @ 11:34 am | [ Quote ]

I live in Dearborn Heights MI. It’s about 40 mins. East of Ann Arbor. I have never seen this sauce anywhere. The U of M students must be buying it. If I
find a bottle I will give it a try.

Comment #17:
Comment by Elessar Tetramariner (1) - 1/24/2008 @ 3:49 pm | [ Quote ]

Buddah on 1/11/2008 at 9:43 pm said:

Thanks for the kind words. I enjoy the atmosphere at TTF, and I was honored when Tracy asked me to do my own version of reviews there. I get to be myself filled with my endless ramblings that might not go over well with everyone here. So out of loyalty, I do a few reviews over there from time to time.

I understand the touchy feelings between you all and no one can help from noticing the words thrown out at each other. All I got to say is treat people like you want to be treated, and never sink down their level because once you do, you are no better than they are. One more cliche…Kill them with kindness. You might hate a guy a helluva lot, but what is going to say when you say, “Hey, how you doing today? Kids doing good, wife? Have a nice day.” Yeah, they might try to push your buttons, but after a while things do change. Who knows, in person you might actually get along with them?

I met Blane, he is one big softy with a heart in the right spot, but he likes to tease people and watch them snap. lol Hey don’t we all in a way? DK, speaks from the heart, and would bend over backwards for someone who needed his help if he could. They are not all bad people. Things have gotten worse because it is what it is, but it doesn’t mean things can’t change. Your ID is thetruth, how about calling a truce. Be the first, reach out and see what happens. You guys can continue to beat on each other’s posts with smartarse comments, but it serves no purpose other than to insult and demean the other person in a public forum.

I am sure Blane will just tell me to mind my own business and shut up, but I speak my mind too. I am about the peace, we have too much hate in the world, and if I can help one person turn the corner on their emotion then I will continue to sing that song.

TTF is about expression, smacktalk, and voicing one’s opinion freely, but it is about the Chilehead Community and the friendship that continues to grow within it’s words. I was happy you came over to say a few words even if 1/2 of them were directed at Blane. The longer you hang, the more you want to jump into the conversation.

See I am longwinded like my reviews. Sorry not the forum for this, but Justin did such a nice job with this review because he said what was on his mind and we saw a part of him that we haven’t seen before in his reviews. That is what I see when I read Brendan a lot. Lots of personality within his reviews and we are taken for a journey. Justin took us on his journey and that is why the review was fun to read.

Okay I am finally done. Good night. :D

I live in Ann Arbor, MI between 1981 -88 and 1993_2001. Collen’s sauce is well, just plain special as all get out. I make hot dips and sauces, and her recipe as executed is abso-poso-lutely iunniwue. Since I moved to England 6 years ago from a long time IN A-squared…(A”) (Ann Arbor), I need a suuply.
Should talk to Stuart at Hot-Heads or my brother Steve at Some Like It Hot (google him..he is in Oakville Onatrio, whe we grew up.)

Comment #18:
Comment by Jere Joiner (2) - 5/14/2008 @ 1:48 pm | [ Quote ]

I’m originally from Louisiana, the home of any hot sauce worth having. Louisiana Hot Sauce, Tabasco, Frank’s, you name it, they all come from Louisiana. That’s why I was amazed to find that Clancy’s Fancy came from some place like Ann Arbor, Michigan. I’m sure Ann Arbor is a nice place, but SHEESH! Ann Arbor hot sauce? No way!

But like the bumble bee who didn’t know he couldn’t fly went out and flew anyway, Clancy’s makes hot sauce. Not only that, it’s better that anything coming out of Louisiana and the first ingredient isn’t even water. In fact, Clancy’s ingredients aren’t found in any other hot sauce. So eat your heart out, Louisiana hot sauce — from now on I’m sticking with Clancy’s Fancy.

Comment #19:
Comment by Nancy Hoermann (1) - 10/20/2008 @ 1:52 pm | [ Quote ]

Clancy’s Fancy XHot Hot Sauce Makes Us Hot! We enjoy it on Eggs and Sausage in the morning, Wraps and afternoon snacks, and in and on our dinners ranging from Steaks, Ribs, Chicken, Omelets, Stir Fry- you name it! It’s better than Daves, Cholula, Red Hot, and Tobasco. We can’t get enough of it. Thank You for your unique creation.

Comment #20:
Comment by Jere Joiner (2) - 10/21/2008 @ 9:37 am | [ Quote ]

Coming from Louisiana, I thought I knew something about hot sauce. That’s before I tried the hot version of Clancy’s Fancy. Now my home in Colorado features only Clancy’s Fancy. I use it in recipes, on eggs, soups, or wherever hot sauce is required to add a little joie d’vivre. Now it’s laissez les bon temps roulet wherever I go!

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