From Brian @ Loco Luna, we’ve got some “Going Where No Hot Sauce Has Gone Before” shots of Loco Luna sauces all over Paris. Very apropos considering the Da Vinci Code is being released nationwide today.
If you are one of the millions who has read the book, the fictional story starts with “a murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.”
Even before its release, this film has generated global controversy and hype including bannings in a number of countries and protests in others. Hmmm…. free publicity and lots of it! In other words, this movie is going to make a fortune.
The story begins in Le Louvre, winds its way through Parisian landmarks and ultimately to other locations including London, the Vatican and Scotland. After the conclusion of the story, one question remains: was Da Vinci really into hot sauce? Now THAT is the question!
If you have a picture of a bottle of hot sauce in a weird location, feel free to send yours (send to nick ‘at’ hotsauceblog.com) and I’ll put it up as well.
42 responses to “The Da Vinci Code Primer, Hot Sauce Blog Style”
mmmm Oh so tasty! I am not usually a huge french fan but I can’t help but like those pictures! Good stuff
Thank you for stating the movie/book is fictional. I think many in the media want it to be real so badly, they leave that part out. Sad, yet comical.
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I have mixed emotions about this actually. The book, while entertaining, goes against fact, reason and history. Ask any expert.
The pictures are in – Paris, London, the Vatican, Paris, the Vatican, Paris and the Vatican again. Just for those keeping score at home.:)
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Totally agree about this being fictional!!!!!!!! I’d like to take it one step further and say that it’s blasphemous. 👿 Thank You Brian for that comment. 🙂
BTW…For those of you who have yet to try the Loco Luna sauces, shame on you. Great stuff 😛
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Those are some well traveled sauces, great pics Brian.
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And just to be clear, I’m not saying that to throw Nick ‘under the bus’. This was my doing. I just have don’t believe in the movie/book.
Aww come on Brian. Throw him under the bus. I dare ya! 😈
Nick has to give me a reason first:)
How much for the giant bottle of Lava that’s next to the eyeful tower??
Including shipping. 🙂
Brian, I’ve got an email coming to ya later when I return home. Everything is cool. THANKS!!
Im seeing it tonight with the girlfriend, and meeting for the first time like 14 of her friends. Haha no pressure. what sauce should i bring haha.
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Glad it FINALLY worked out!:) Thanks man!
Yah, I want to title it the Davinci Load ( load of something).
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Fourteen friends! WoW! For your sake, I hope they are all of the female type.. 😈
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Bring two- a milder one they might like, and a crazy one to impress them 😉 The first is to maybe recruit a few new chileheads to the fold, the second to shut up the one or two that think they’re already ‘all that’.
I went & saw the movie with the wife yesterday – the movie was a good movie. Having not yet read the book, I don’t have the “well they left this and this out” perception.
Good fictional movie – and as always Tom Hanks was excellent.
I feel bad for the author of the book, I believe he wrote it as a piece of fiction and he is really taking some heat for it now, because a select few have chosen to believe it’s real.
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if you put into the perspective of he wrote this as a piece of fiction, for entertainment, it doesn’t have to be true. I do understand that he really offended some religious persons (all over the world) with this book, L. Ron Hubbard has written some pretty far out books also, started the scientology religion, with Dianetics. I guess what I am saying is if we keep this in perspective, in my opinion there wouldn’t be anything to take offensively.
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Well, I think he should have figured it was going to cause controversy.
he probably did to tell you the truth, not this much contraversy, I should probably not have typed anything since I don’t understand nor agree with organized religion, the way I look at it is this…. “hello people it’s a book made into a movie” but again that’s just me, and i don’t expect people to agree with me.
I went and saw it last night. It was entertaining I guess. I knew it was pretty much fiction anyway. The problem I have with Dan Brown and the book/movie is he basically believes alot of the stuff he wrote about. I say this cause I have seen him numerous time defending all the stuff on tv. He weaves enough truth into his fiction to fool alot of people. I believe that was for a reason. I think that is the big problem alot of people have with it. You have really got to know your history not to come out thinking at least some of it is true. But as I have done some research much of it was pure bunk. In the end it probably served the purpose he intended to achieve, making alot of money…
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Not that I disagree with you about anything, I’m just thinking that the topic of the book/movie needs to take a different turn than it has. While I respect everyone’s views on religion, whether the author of the book believes what he wrote or not, please respect EVERYONE’s views about religion. The movie was made for entertainment. I don’t believe the book was intended to sway people’s beliefs, the man is an author. He wrote a book because that is the profession he has chosen. In that sort of profession, you have to bring attention to your work. The best way to do it is to write something controversial. I don’t recall seeing the encylopedia britanica on the New York Times best seller list. So lets not preach about what is and isn’t fictional about the book/movie, cause there are those out there that believe the whole bible is fictional. I would hate to see this blog turn into a battle of who’s religeon or beliefs are supposedly right.
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True dat man. Don’t get me wrong I really like all of Dan Brown’s books minus Da Vinci Code ( cause I have not read it). He writes an excellent fast paced thriller. I also agree with you on the book not being written to sway one’s beliefs. If you are that easily swayed in what you believe then were you really sure about it in the first place? In the end I want the blog to stay on hot sauce as the main topic not arguing about other ‘stuff’
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Just to let you know Aaron, that wasn’t directed at you. Probably shouldn’t have quoted you when I typed it. It was a blanket general statement.
Hey RYAN, Whaza Happanen Hotstuff!!
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Yeah that is pretty much how I took it anyway. All cool wit me
Did I just witness Aaron and Ryan walk off holding hands? I believe that I did.. Vic is gonna be really upset! 😛
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But in reality, that is the problem. Dan Brown and some others are promoting the work as FACT. Just look at the book. The first page after the title page is titled FACT. What follow is information about the Priory of Sion, a so-called “European secret society founded in 1099”, whose members include “Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo and Leonardo da Vinci”.
The actual FACT is that this actual parchment was placed in Paris’s Bibliotheque Nationale rather recently by two Frenchmen who confessed to creating the whole thing to see if they could get away with it. The fraud is that Dan Brown is using known falsehoods as truths. Don’t believe me. Believe the History Channel, 60 minutes and 20/20 who have all reached the same conclusions.
So in summary, I agree that the issue is that some are making a work of fiction out to be fact. However, the issue goes much deeper in that it is the author himself who is a primary culprit in the scheme. Dan Brown and others seem to be purposely attempting to undermine organized religion, with the Roman Catholic Church as the largest and most well known target.
Just needed to clear that up. Now back to hot sauce…….
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Who’s holding what ❗
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And the Mrs. is going to be upset if I don’t get off my butt and clean a bit…been playing all weekend and my side of the bedroom has become less than clean 😛
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Oh boy, the dreaded “Honey-Do List”, better get on that man- there will be HELL to pay if it’s not done brother.
…if you haven’t tried any of the Loco sauces yet, then you really need to! Highly recommended. Great on steak!
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All of the reviews here have been very positive, they are on “The List” of sauces we want to try. But I have to say “The List” continues to grow and grow lately.
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Oh it has been done, but I didn’t do it alone 😈
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“been playing all weekend”
“my side of the bedroom has become less than clean”
Dude, did you leave that wide open or what??? …lol
Im not even going to ask, although I may speculate a bit
🙄
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awwww, and guess what we are all accomplishing…..? yeah enough people read this blog and will now rush out and buy the book or see the movie, adding to the mans coffers…. his mission is accomplished, and maybe just maybe he wants to be another L.Ron Hubbard 😀 LOL sorry I find this whole thing ridiculous
Brian did you get the T-shirts in yet?
Personally, I don’t think we should be looking at Dan Brown. Dr. Sues however, now there is an evil mastermind. He’s done much worse by going after children!
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I know- Green eggs and Ham? what kind of mind altering physco babble is that!!!!!!!!!
Though it’s a good read after 1/2 bottle of crown & 7
And then there’s all these cook books…Soe state that their recipes are great tasting…lies, its all LIES!!!!
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Right on Brian. I have no problem with anyone busting on religion with fiction, but to make a fictional movie, and present and try to qualify it as fact is wrong. The mainstream media jumped all over this from the start and did just that. Cripes, could you imagine if someone made a movie like this about Allah? A couple of recent cartoons and they were shooting people in the streets.
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