I’ve received a few submissions for the Pimp Your Sauce Contest and even more questions about it. Below are the entries I’ve recieved so far – so hopefully these will give everyone some idea of what they are up against. You can submit as many entries as you like – and remeber a signed and numbered (only 10 available) Blair’s Original Death from 1994-95 is up for grabs!
348 responses to “A Few Pimp Your Sauce Contest Entries”
haha! These are pretty good!
So far it looks like tough competition, and I would have to assume the bar will continue to raise as the contest draws on. Good stuff on the enteries submitted, they look great.
Whoa- “Attention– Big Cutting Room Floor Message to Go out sometime on Thursday April 13th. Make Sure you are on Blair’s VIP Email List. ALL Of you are not going to want to miss this one.”
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I just saw that! And to think I’ve been running to the front door like a maniac every time I hear a sound that could possibly be the UPS guy! 🙂 I guess I can take a few days off now.
Love the chopper Jim! Do all the honey-bear firemen ride those?
Those are all awesome.. I love it.
Ohhh yeah!! I gotsta gangsta lean up in my car!!!
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Updated – ATTENTION—Big Cutting Room Floor Message to Go out Wednesday April 12th at 9am. Make Sure you are on Blairs VIP Email list. ALL Of you are not going to want to miss this one.
I thought the cutting room floor applied to those that won the contest. But the message says ALL? ha Maybe I will be able to obtain something cool
I just wanted to mention I pimped my Caldera for Christmas 2005’s post.
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I’m going to let my daughter pimp my sauce entry. It’s going to come out way better than if I did it myself. Should be cool.
Greetings from the hinterlands of rural Utah! Only *VERY* spotty access to the email here, but to answer the question, no- not all honey bear firefighters get to ride the chopper- just the lucky ones!
Defcon- where did you get those COOL FD helmets that size??! I’ve been tearing places apart looking for those as they’d be the perfect size for the bears. You’d have more of my undying loyalty and affection if you’ll come across with a source for them 🙂
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HEELLOOOOOOO JIm.. Long time no hear!
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It look slike it could have come from the “Rescue Heros” toys maybe? I think my nephew has a fireman about that size with the gear. Time for a google search…….
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Then again… maybe not 🙂 Rescue Heroes are different.
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Jim – Ask Tracy, that’s his submission. I think it came off some toy
Okay- TRACY where’d you get them?! 🙂
Spectacular country out this way Huv! Did Bryce Canyon yesterday (10 miles, 3,000′ elevation change) and doing Angels Landing tomorrow in Zion (2.5 miles with 1,400′ change one way). Ought to get me in the right frame of mind for Spring planting 🙂 Any further on this & we’ll have to take it to the off topic though.
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Awesome!! Sounds like you are having a blast!
Better time if I wasn’t pushing 50 😉 Found a Thai restaraunt just outside the park- Srirachi!!! Only thing I’ve seen other than Tabasco.
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Tell me you don’t carry a stash of your own stuff! Ever get your email worked out? If not let me know.
LOL! Guilty as charged 🙂 I don’t usually carry my stuff as I like to check out what other folks have- supporting the industry as it were 🙂
Nope- had a horrendous day on duty before I left (as is usual!!) and didn’t get the chance to follow up on it. My web guru gave a few suggestions but those will have to wait until I return- I’m on vacation!!! 🙂
MattUK – you here? I’ve got something I think you will appreciate. Email me when you can!
Brian
Hello All, I just wanted to tell you that I have never been more excited about a Special offering than I am now…..I honestly cannot wait for you to get ahold of these most very special bottles…I am sure you will be as happy as I am with them….ENJOY…FEEL ALIVE Your Chilipal BLAIR
Blair, I understand you will be sending out an E-Mail at 8AM tomorrow
I hope that is right! I’ll be waiting
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9AM
You guys think we will be able to purchase it at 9 or just getting the email? I think I found someone to get one if we get to purchase it but I want to be prepared
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is it 9 yet?
Ryan thanks for update I forgot to read correctly, I’ll wait from 8 until
it comes through. OH ME!
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Well, if I remember correctly, the system automatically sends an e-mail soon as it is available for purchase. Best bet is to get up early, find the page and refresh like there’s no tomorrow until you see it.
I WONDER IF HE WILL ANNOUNCE IT ON THE BLOG AS HE HAS DONE
ALSO IN THE PAST? AT THE SAME TIME OF E=MAIL
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Ahh I see. I havent actually been part of one of the offerings like this before so I wasnt familiar. Thanks!
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Not a problem. You can buy the one that would have been mine, but the wife is so dead set on going to TX that I can’t touch the extra money 🙁
Here’s hoping it works cause I have my sister trying to get one for me. She already thinks I am out of my mind for attempting to buy a hot sauce that expensive! I may not know what it is but I want one I have no doubt in my mind!
that’s a fact too 😀 poor baby, of course, I can always go enjoy texas by myself 😛
I used to think it was weird to want something I had never seen, then I came to the blog and realized there were so many like Ryan it just became normal, I figure if ya can’t beat em join em…. your sister will come around to that thinking too 😀
If only it were a week or two later, I’d have my bonus by then and could get it 🙁 But you know what they say…wish in one hand, crap in the other. See which gets filled first
I have accomplished my goal for tonight i am going to bed 😀
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ha! You are right. I am working on it. I mean she is the one that got my started on the collecting thing with a graduation present of hot sauces. She just knew I had always wanted to start one 😀
Good Night Mrs. Ryan!
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Evening CaJohn! I take it you’ve been busy today?
The Mrs. Says “Tell CaJohn I said goodnight” 😀
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Don’t forget, thats 9:00am EDT. If you live in the central time zone like me it is 8am and 6am PDT.
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I’m in Oregon so I’ll be getting it soon as I wake up 😛
1 more hour!!!!!!
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Hi Jim, yeah, it wasn’t my submission, but man I got a good laugh out of it! At first I wondered if enlarged the label and slapped it on a larger bottle. The mask has quite some detail for being so small.
creator, are you going to pimp a sauce? I can’t wait to see all the entries, this is great fun. the ones that have already turned in their entries…. why did you choose the bottles you did?
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Hmmm, wasn’t really planning on it, but I do have some really cool labware that could be used.
Which bottles are you referring to? If you’re talking about the ZERO’s, well, they were simple enough, as I wanted to increase the creativeness with each Batch. If you are talking about the regular sauce bottles, I was a major chem-head in high school and college, I just thought the medicine bottles were interesting, as I had never seen anyone else use them for hot sauce. Many have asked why the #3 comes in a regular woozy bottle…Well, if anyone can tell me where to get 12 ounce Boston Round bottles, I will jump on it…Not the bottle, the chance to acquire them.
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Well, my bottle is pretty much made by me with the eception of the bottle itself. The bottle is an “X” 1 Million extract pimped ALL by the great Scott. It wasnt easy getting the colors that I wanted in the (Stuff that is melted. SHHHH its a secret.) My other entry I submitted isnt on here yet. Its quite an interesting one too.
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what makes the boston rounds so unique? bare with me I am new….is this something I should know?
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I think he just like the Boston Round style – unique for a hot-sauce.
Huv is correct Mrs., the Boston Round is what most know as a medicine or chemical bottle. Nothing more.
The Boston Round is rather unique right now, it has been used by several sauce makers over the few years I’ve been in the business. It offers a couple of challenges for food use. 1st of all it’s a fairly expensive bottle in comparison to the woozys. It also uses a phenolic closure in most cases. They are pricey too. Automated filling equipment/cappers don’t like them very well either. The Bubba Heatin’ Sauce came in them for a while. It was made by the Scorned Woman folks, Oak Hill Farms.
I think it’s a perfect bottle for the whole Defcon theme. Very Lab-oriented look and definitely commands shelf presence. Defcon, I talked with my bottle supplier today about the sizes they stock. They jump from 8 oz up to 16 oz, he’s checking on availability of 10/12 oz for you. I’ll be in touch when he gets back to me
I need to get me a camera for this. I dont want to miss out!! I do have a cell phone camera…
I do like the Defcon bottles though. Like has been said it is a little more unique than most.
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Greatly appreciated CaJohn, I’ve been searching for a while now with no luck.
CaJohn, Creator, thank you so much for the info on the bottles. now one more question and I think I can call it good… what is a woozy bottle….?
Mrs., a woozy bottle is the bottle that looks kind of like a beer bottle. A majority of the sauces out there come in the 5 oz. variety, we actually uses a 10 ounce version with our mild (newbie) sauce.
ok just so I have a reference it would be a bottle like the magma comes in? or more like queen of farts?
Creator what kind of bottle did you use? and what do you call the bottle blair uses? I am assuming and please feel free to correct me that the “woozy” got it’s name because it looks like a beer bottle, or did it come about differently?
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love the santa hat, it’s cute
Mrs. Ryan, it’s called a woozy bottle becauce it was first used extensively for Worcestershire sauce. It came in small (5) oz. and large (10 oz). It’s now much more widely used for hot sauces. Yes the Queen and Magma and most other sauces come in this “woozy” bottle. As a side note, when I first got into the biz, I wanted to use a “different” bottle, didn’t take me too long to find out why most people were using them. “Different” bottles cost a lot more! Then we find out that a lot of retailers are married to the “footprint” of this bottle with there shelving/racking systems. Other bottles don’t fit so they don’t buy them. Just a little of the learning curve for us. The Hot Saucer collector series bottles were much disliked by retailers because they took up so much room on their shelves, so we didn’t learn very much very quickly.
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Thanks! I was wondering the story behind the naming
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Hey John.So your saying I should take out my collector bottles to make room more sauces. LOL.
Thank you CaJohn,
that explains alot. I was looking at our shelves that we have the sauces on and your right, the woozy bottle doesn’t take up as much room as some of the others, btw HI wicked wanza 😀
well go me, I was feeling a bit embarrassed about asking, it’s nice to know others were wondering too 😀
I didnt know woozy and worchestershire sauce where the same thing lol
honestly the only thing i knew about worcesthire (whatever the spelling) was that it tasted great in meatloaf and on chicken
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All but CaJohns, is that what you mean?
I will when your 2 out stock items come back in that will be 12ft of Cajohns collectors
But how about the return of the Hot Saucer? Anyone interested?
John that sauce is already pimp with studs if I’am thinking of the right one
the hot saucer? what am I missing? I was looking at the lava dome….that is pretty cool
Ryan says YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s pretty cool
I found out the hard way they don’t fly
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it must be Ryan was certainly excited
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I don’t think I want to know how you found that out
John can come up with some cool looking bottles.
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Those are glowing windows Bret! Yes it’s about 6 inches in diameter. We have a bunch of the bottles left. I guess we’ll bring it back if there’s interest.
ryan is interested, lmao, I have a lot to learn
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John you know your product always have a home at Jungle jim’s. Bret
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Not for long I hope!, I hope the Jungle is just a temporary shelter… Until they’re placed in a home!
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sounds like an ad for the humane society….. you can “adopt” a CaJohns bottle here for only ….
Me too g’night friend.
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Good Night Bret, all of the Collector Series bottles at the Jungle are signed (at least most of them are now)
ok CaJohn where do I find out more about the hot saucer?
there is one pictured on ironq.com
k be back in a sec
very very interesting, it’s a very cool shaped bottle. I bet it tastes yummy…the sauce not the bottle 😛
I am interested in the bottle, it would look neat in with my purses 😀
There’s a better pic on mississippisauceking.com under the CaJohns stuff Hot Saucer. It’s kinda messed up because someone wrote all over it!
well curses on that “someone” DANG IT!! 😛
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AND……..
http://www.mississippisauceking.com/sauce_details.php?sID=34
hotpursuits in Seattle has them on her website as well. Normal pricing too!
the one on ironq was pretty decent I thought…. although shipping is unknown.
MSK, you still around? I saw you posting on another thread.
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I know you would like the sauce, it comes in 5 oz “woozys” as well…
oh really? well than I can order the woozys and save the saucer as a collectible…. I am likin this 😀
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her site is chilebabe.com
Thank you very much, Ryan is at his computer working and shaking his head at me, I have learned more today than in 2 years of his collecting, I need to listen to him more. 😀
Mrs. Ryan, Wicked Wanza just got home and said to tell you hi, then went to bed. Too much new grandbaby visiting and stuff I guess
LOL, congrats to you both, eventually wicked wanza and the new parents will get back to a normal schedule 😀
are you both going to be in texas?
we just “adopted” a new dog, we call him chili….he still wakes me up for the potty at around 1 am every morning, i love the lil guy but man i miss a full nights sleep.
a full nights sleep is quite hard to find these days! Tomorrow will be a good day for many especially me. NO WORK=sleep late! very nice!!
quit bragging Aaron, SOME of us (me) have to work until sunday 🙁
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Oh yes, she’s the best sales person I have. She eve hangs with the crew pretty good as well, she keeps us crazies in check. We have a dog named Savina, I wanted to call her Chile, but lost. Then we adopted a cat from behind the kitchen, I wanted to call her Chile, but her name is Cayenne. I’m glad you got to call your dog Chile!!!
Aaron, what’s a day off?
Ouch! I think the only reason we get tomorrow off is the large hispanic population at work that would not show up if we tried working. It isn’t cause they just want to be nice… They are gonna have still another protest day! argghh
Or I should say Chili…
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My day off this week basically just makes me break even this week. THe hispanics decided not to show up too well on monday because of the protests so the work was NUTS Not fun at all cause we worked an extra shift to help make up for the lost time 🙁
When you run a business like this, you seldom get a whole day when you don’t have to do something. Jim C is just crazy, befor we opened the kitchen his work day could be 36 hours before he went to bed.hAt least I took some of the pressure off of him! Now it’s on us! We love it though. THings like this event in Gatlinburg give us a couple of days to try to unwind, we have a cabin down there so we have a little retreat to run off too. The cell phone still rings, but we have some control of it.
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I’m here dude! Just cruising the post catching up on all the jibber jabber.
I wanted you to tell Mrs. Ryan about the Hot Saucer King… I don’t know if she’s still around though. I see that Jim C has recently been here by one of his posts on the canning question. Jim, you lurking here?
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Thats good to have a place to go unwind. Gatlinburg is a nice place to do it at too. It always seemed you guys stay pretty busy. Especially if you don’t care to spend a ton on staffing for shipping and the like. So far seems like you guys are doing something right 😀
Hot Saucer King?
a cat named cayenne and a dog named savina…my dog is chile and my cat is pepper 😀 I am looking forward to meeting you both in Texas 😀 I am sorry your work is crazy Aaron, I am working a lot cus a portion of my tips everyday (most days) go into the texas fund I am so freakin excited it’s unreal
Hot Saucer, King…how’s that?
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Sometimes I wonder about you brother… 😀
Yes MSK tell me about the hot saucer 😀
Yup- I’m here. LA actually. Long days can be had in any small business. I’ve always maintained that you don’t own a small business, IT owns YOU. As John said, it wasn’t unsual for me to put in 24 at the firehouse and then 12 to 18 at the chiles. Him opening up his own kitchen was one of the best things that ever happened to me 🙂
CaJohn you have email, Ryan wanted to me to let you know 😀
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Yes, I hear tell you’re quite a saucer… Big Time!
well I for one am happy to know there are dedicated individuals for us that like HOT stuff 😀
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I hope this refers to drinking and not being short and squatty 😛
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I really like your favorite hot sauce too!
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No, not drinking…collecting…
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😉 glad to hear it, I have to get more I have eaten almost a whole bottle with a little help from Ryan
ROFL, that didn’t even occur to me and here I am on the HOT SAUCE BLOG, but no worries… the light bulb is working again
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Jim & I both filled light bulbs with hot sauce too. MSK has one of those as well!
LOL ryan just told me that this is to funny….. you aren’t bugging my house are you 😛
Jim, LA??? Weren’t you in Utah when I talked to you? Send me an email, I need to ask you about something.
Mrs. Ryan, Nothing has shown up yet…
he sent it …..you should have it any second
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I LOVE it!!!
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And the smaller version “Light You Up Spice”
CaJohn he is giving the Rocky Balboa victory fist dance in his chair 😀
Sending mail. Nope- I was stuck at El Cajon pass just outside of Victorville on the way down to LA from Utah.
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Tell Mrs. Ran about the ot Saucer…
Hot Saucer I mean…
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I am going to have to do some serious perusing of different sites to get all this stuff straight in my head, and I think I am going to pick one and learn everything and then move on 😀 it will be better organized and easier for me
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What about it? Is there some obscure story I’ve forgotten about? 😀
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If you want to know about CaJohns stuff, MSK’s site is a one stop reaource right now.
I am looking for one and want your opinion on it MSK help a girl out here.. 😀
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well I will have to go and look at it again…..
No story, just the facts sir…
It’s squat, wide, round filled with her favorite sauce, yellow sparkly windows, but some guy wrote all over it! Is it worth having one?
Judas Priest!…I work at night and the Mrs. goes NUTS with the posting!
Mrs. Ryan….While you can get an idea of things you haven’t heard of in CaJohns line, my list of his products is still very incomplete. I still have many pics to post plus brief histories regarding each item.
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so what your saying is I need to keep looking every few days/weeks or so, to peruse your CaJohn collection…I’ll do that happily 😀 as well as look at everything else you have on there… as long as you don’t mind a few questions from a relative newbie 😀
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and not a hint of controversy… I think she’s trying to crack the Top 10…
She’s learning quite a bit of background history.
and enjoying myself too 😀 thanks to all of you. I told him I had made over 100 posts today and pretty much stayed on topic and he said and I quote “holy sh&^ honey!” LOL
CaJohn ask: Is it worth having one?
Absolutely Mrs. Ryan! CaJohns designer bottles are no different than any other limited run sauce. Get it, get it, get it! Especially if you find one at a decent price.
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well I think I may have found one, and I am doing some serious calculations…. by next week it could be mine 😀
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Uh oh. She is a calculating one!
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ROFL, when it comes to what I want you bet I am 😀
Sounds like a plan to me. I don’t calculate. I just buy and figure everything else out later
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Not a problem…Ask away!
Had I not had so many projects interferring with my routine there would be much more to see at the site. Once I return from the “MidWest Spring Hot Sauce Tour”, hopefully I’ll have more time to invest in it.
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Do you think you’ll make it home? Did you get a hold of Big Paul on his run last night?
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LOL I wish I could do that Luckily for me I work in an industry where I bring home cash every day I work (hairstylist) so it only takes me a day or 2 to save it up.
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Thank you MSK
Aaron, She’s going to catch us VERY SOON! 348 already…
now see if you guys weren’t as helpful as you are, I wouldn’t have moved up so fast, but creator had to bring up those bottles and that just got me more involved in this. 😀 then thak mentioned the 16 million and I was off and running, Thank you all for being so helpful and informative 😀 and helping me in my quest to knock chris k from his #1 spot 😀 😛 that was a joke
We are very happy to answer you questions, it makes us feel that we may actually know something! We (WW & I) lookforward to meeting you in Ft Worth as well! I’m surprised Jim didn’t jump i on the 16 million queston, he has all the answers. I’m sure that when he finds it he will have something to add or help clear it up. I’m going to drift off to bed now, t’s been fun, and I look forward to seeing y’all tomorrow here on the HSB!!! Good Night!!!
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GOOD NIGHT and thank you very much for the info I’ll have to pick jims brain when he back from his trip 😀
Well guys and gals, I’m off to bed. Hope you all have a great night!
Goodnight John!
Goodnight Ryan!
Damn! I just had a flashback to the “Waltons” 😀
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YES!! But only if I get the #1 of the reissue! haha Sorry eman, you have taught me all to well!
More to follow, but after next week in Gatlinburg, I should have the FIRST and only VAN that is pimped with the CaJohn and MSK Signatures!! 1 of 1. The only problem will be trying to fit it on my collector’s shelf, once I return home. 🙂
There’s not a whole lot of brain to pick there Mrs Ryan 🙂
Hunting back to find out what it was about 16 mil I’m supposed to provide input on.
It was on another thread Jim…
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He found it.
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So you are pimpin the van eh Tracy?
If you decide to sell, how much you going to put that up for??? 😉
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I know a couple other guys that would sign it for you 😉 I l’ll send you an e-mail and a map so you can drive it to em.
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HaHaHaHa not sure yet Chris, Once it’s all completed with the pimpin’, I will be contacting my insider at Barrett Jackson auctions. Ahhh! Now I’m starting to feel creative…. 🙂
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I know this other guy that feels creative from time to time, he stays up all night doing stuff on his computer, he’ll prolly make ya something for it Tracy, stick it on the windshield and sign it for ya, you should get at least a dollar for it 😀
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you think there isn’t much to pick, but I know for a fact that there is …CaJohn said there is 😀
Hey Mrs. Ryan, sounds good to me….’erybody’s got to start somewhere!
LMAO, it that the truth…. yesterday I started with what bottles were called, I went to our shelves and said “woozy” medicine” etc, I still have no clue what to call the blair bottles though
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“Perfume” Bottles, now you know…
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How about “Expensive” 😀
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Yes, that too…
EXPENSIVE PERFUME BOTTLES…thanks now I know 😀
what about the bottles that are a special shape, like adam and eve and hot love?
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Now I see why she leaves work early…
hush man, let me learn
hi mrs ryan this is huvasons wife. i am trying to get my husband to have another baby. i think all this hot sauce stuff is making it so we cant afford to have one (HA HA). is your husband as crazy as my husband…
mrs ryan – mrs huvason just posted to you. I think Nick has to approve.
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“figure” or “sculptured” bottles…
This is GREAT! We now have three wives and the Three Hot Tamales (don’t know which if any are married) all blogging now. The women are coming out in full force! Now its time for them to peer presure Mrs. CaJohn to joining in 😀
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GREAT for who? Now I can’t blog about her 🙂
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You can, you just won’t like the consequences :-P…or maybe you will 😉
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lmao why not huv…Ryan blogs about me all the time
she wrote that she wanted to have a baby but all the hot sauce buying was making it so that we acn’t (HA HA)
I gotta get started on my sauce, but this week has been so busy setting up wy wife’s new law firm, that and the restaurant has been insane the last 8 days. It doesn’t leave much time for fun stuff to be sure!!
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I knew it had to be fancier than “collector” bottle. ok I know about bottles, so now I need to go inside the bottle and figure out what’s in there besides vinegar peppers(all kinds) salt….wait I think I know all that, so now I just need to find out what I like and where I want to start. 😀
he just wants meto stay thin he is afaraid i will get big and fat and not be able to lose the weight, so i wont be hot anymore
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ok huv, you have a problem…..see um if you like buying hot sauce more than the trying to have a baby, yeah man uh….
how many kids do you have now?
ROFL make him buy you a tread mill…..could him thin too 😀
That’s a lie
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should say keep him thin too 😀
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i already have one and two gym memberships… he wants me to enter the hot sauce hotties before i get fat and pregant
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your wife is a lawyer? and you have a restaurant. I bet that makes for some interesting conversation. what kind of lawyer is she?
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2 kids 15 & 7
have him take your pic now, than take his credit cards and check book, pack him a lunch for work everyday, and give him milk money 😀 then you all set he can’t spend any money 😀
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he wouldnt be caught dead on one
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i already do that now 🙂 he walks aroiund without a dime in his pocket
i bet if he doesn’t release the homunculus soon he will be 😉
I love walking on the treadmill makes me feel i accomplished something…
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ROFL, no wonder he kidnapped the cute little guy
we better move this to the off topic thread before nick shakes his finger at us
i have the little guy kidnapped now from him, he has no idea where i put it
ok off topic
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Boy Howdy!! That’s great to hear! I used a finger nail polish bottle for my first pimpin’ bottle project. Glad to know that I was in the ballpark with the correct theme of the bottle.
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She’s not lying either!
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If I am understanding all the info I have received than a bottle, like blairs or your “pimped polish” would be a collector thing, where as a woozy, would be something to collect and eat from…at least in my point of view…I don’t think I would want to open a “figurine” bottle eat the contents and have it on the shelf, it would then be pointless if it were empty.
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lmao Huvason, you better start taking walks and saving the change you find on the ground
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Ummm…yes..that would be a correct statement
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Shhhhh I still manage to get my sauce 🙂
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of course a little water and some food coloring it might make good book ends for the cook books if someone did eat it…..
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how do you manage that….nevermind I don’t want to know
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SO HELP ME GOD IF I COME HOME AND FIND MY BOTTLES HOLDING UP YOU COOK BOOKS WE WILL HAVE WORDS…
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Don’t let him fool you – I approve all purchases.
OH NO WE WILL NOT YOU WILL DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!!! BTW WE ARE HAVING WORDS RIGHT NOW. YOU GET BACK TO WORK RIGHT NOW!!
we are not having words, we’re typing words 😛 and if i DO find that you have ruined my bottles, I’ll have to call my anger management guy and tell him I’m cured…CAUSE YOU’RE DEAD 😀
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You can always use some crappy sauce to refill those bottles Mrs. Ryan..hubby will never know the diff..if he figures it out, just tell him that you’re working on a pimp yo sauce entry…he’ll understand
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Dammit Tracy, I work for you no more, there no Ryan here, you go’way now
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LOL Thats so true. My wife said the same thing when my N-59 arrived. She asked if anyone would ever open it, Isaid no. She said there’s probably ketchup in it or something.
crap i’ve been posting under MRs Huvasons name. She jumped on before again.
I posted this:
LOL Thats so true. My wife said the same thing when my N-59 arrived. She asked if anyone would ever open it, Isaid no. She said there’s probably ketchup in it or something
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You go girl!! tell that slimeball hubby of yers, who wears the pant’s in the house!!!
We have a lot of people who open the bottles, we’ve even had people order it, pour out the sauce and fill it with other things loke oils and sand. We still get the full price and they just throw away the contents.
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haha That gives me a great idea! Mrs. Ryan, dump out all of Ryan’s collectable bottles, fill them with colored sand, then set up at a local craft show…
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ADAM AND EVE LOOK GREAT IN MY KITCHEN WINDOW ::d they are holding up the betty crocker cook book and other books i have arranged the bamboo around them omg guys it looks great 😀
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Man, your really asking for trouble Tracy 🙂
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lmao@ketchup, i wonder if anyone has ever opened a bottle and found out it truly was something else
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NO, he’s trying to get me in trouble, he is just trying to get a laugh 😀
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why do they do that…they can get the empty bottles cheaper can’t they? or go to a craft store and get something similar, not that I want to take away your business, but why waste good stuff?
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I know..ain’t it great!…and it’s only friday!!
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I’m on my way home. You can forget about the eggs, I’m buying some cigarettes so I can put them out on your forehead after I’ve jammed a couple of my Blair’s reserves where the sun don’t shine…then we’ll REALLY know if its just ketchup inside 😀
geez Ryan is so sensitive 😐
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You would have to ask them, altough they usually as if they can buy the empty bottles first. We used to do that then people started ordering in large quantities so we stopped.
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Now I’m hurt! Do YOU not find my verbage humorous???
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Just wait until Wednesday Tracy, you may not know what you’ve gotten yourself into!!!
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lmao, I find it hilarious, however Ryan is really concerned about whether or not his sauces have moved to the kitchen 😀
Mrs. Ryan…We Have A Problem…
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That’s what I’m hoping for!! 🙂 🙂
his name is Ryan CaJohn 😛
Remeber, it’s the first night of MSK’s Spring Hot Sauce Tour!!! He’ll be on a mission…
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hahahaha TTF!
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I hope you meant Ryan, CaJohn…
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Opps!! what I meant to say was…TFF!
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I thought you left something out Tigger…
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I have to write down all the questions I have for him…..how many nights does he do this, and what re the details? he is a die hard 😀
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yes yes I did, never been b a big one for punctuation 😀
He’s following us back to Columbus and we’re stopping at the Jungle on the way. He’s going to work in the kitchen for a few of days, then go visit Jim and come back. He’s staying here through Saturday and helping us feed the folks at WOSU during their auction (fund raising). I know he has a couple of other invites, and I think he’s trying to stop and see Ron Boyle’s (Porky’s Gourmet) on the way home.
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I’m suddenly feeling like a kid going to camp for the first time… 🙂
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I just wondered, I thought by some chance his middle name was CaJohn…
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That is awesome!!!! I can’t wait for his site to be all done, I am curious to see all of his stuff and read the histories behind them, I bet he’s a riot to hang out with
I could tell you what his middle name was but I am not really interested in finding out what is REALLY in the blair bottles 😛
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nervous queesy and shaky? separation anxiety? it’s all good Tracy, MSK will be back
Randy truly is a GREAT guy, he is very passionate about this whole hot sauce thing. We have a lot of fun at his expense, but he just goes right along with the game. You’ll have to ask him about his Joe Jalapeno signed bottle when you meet him!
I am so excited about zest fest, and meeting all of you. Not to mention the fact I love Texas.
Tracy, nothing that can’t be cured on the porch of the Caliente Cabin!
OH and she enters the top 10 😀
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Should I be worried? haha
ZestFest WILL be a blast!!! It was fun meeting the small contingency that was in ABQ, but the blog appears to be turning out in force!!! Not to mention all the usual characters that hit these shows. You & Wicked Wanza will have your hands full with this group, she’s used to it, but we never cease to amaze her!!!
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You’re going to catch me tonight!
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It’s all good CaJohn, I am actually looking forward to it, I have been to a few hair shows that turned out to be pretty amazing. remind me to tell you about the stuck elevator, and the firemen sometime
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Does Ryan know about this?
No Tracy, it will be what it is, whatever that means…the mountains have a way with those that visit.
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rofl, I doubt it, I have a few easter chores to do with the kids tonight, Ryan will be on though, unless he’s making more changes to that one thing.
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yeah, he does he kinda shook his head and laughed
I’m going to go get some dinner, be back in a while…
Has Ryan completed his “pimp yo sauce” entry yet?
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Enjoy!
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I am not sure, he has some more ideas so I think he is holdin off for a few to make sure he has it “perfect”
I need to rally this weekend on another entry. My time is limited..chili cook-off tomorrow, and Gatlinburg next week. That gives me about 3 more days to try and come up with something that will be a winner.
wow your a busy man! well good luck at the cook off 😀 are you guys gonna make it to zestfest?
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I have no idea…want to really bad!
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well, I really hope you’ll be there 😀
Hey Tracy! Do you smoke cigars? I’ll have some Cuban Mistakes in Gatlinburg! Just right for sittin’ on the porch overlooking the mountains 😀
You smoke MSK? I have some Cubans to share when you’re here. Came via Afghanistan so they’re well travelled 🙂 They’re the lighter ‘morning’ style rather than the heavier ‘evening’ ones.
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WaHoooooo!!!! Sounds like a winner!!!!!!
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Hi Brian I’ve only just got back to broadband land – I’ll get your email from Nick
Is there going to be some more pic’s from the pimp your sauce contest, or am I just not looking in the right thread.
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I don’t know if there will be more before the voting, but there will be at that time.
I have another entry that is just “HAIRraising”. 🙂 Its not in these pics.
I’m sure there will be a *ton* more pics- Nick just hasn’t put htem all up yet. I know that some have probably not been submitted yet either.
He just put up a few of the best ones early to help give folks ideas 😛
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Thanks Ryan, just looking forward to seeing all of the ideas all the crazy chilihead have
I’ll be working on mine next week! Me and my daughter are going to pimp a special bottle I aquired recently. We may not win, but it will be a lot of fun with my daughter helping out!
Gotta go do my taxes now…….
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Yep, still working on mine. Got the bottle and display figured out, just gotta figure out what sauce to put in it. That and figure out how to rig the pyrotechnics! 😉
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Pyrotechnics!!!
tell me more!
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Sounds like one bottle you may noy want to open. 🙂
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It’s a good thing you only have to take a picture of it. Not sure if Nick would want that shipped to him 🙂
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Just kidding about the pyro, hence the 😉 . Not far off though. I got something in mind that would look a lot better on video than a still pic, but I may be able to work around it if it has to be a single pic. I’m thinking a small animated .gif may work, kinda like Blair did with the pics of the collections he posted for the Cutting room floor contest.
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that sounds cool
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I was really excited to hear about this contest, this type of thing is right up my alley. I spent 12+ years as a car audio installer in my younger years, I used to pimp rides out for a living before there was ever a Pimp My Ride show on TV. This gives me a chance to be creative again, about the only thing I miss about the old profession. This is a lot of fun regardless of what the outcome may be.
OK, where can I get just a COUPLE of the 4x4x4 display cases Blair uses for his reserves??? I can get them in bulk but dont need 25 of them. Just a couple. 🙂 These things are hard to find.
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Scott – Call Karin and see if you can order just a few from them. If that doesn’t work, let me know – we have a few in stock for those that come in cracked.
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You can get some on Ebay. pmac is selling some right now. They even come with sauce, but you can throw that out if you only want the case 🙂
Sorry – – couldn’t pass that one up. I have no idea 🙂
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I still like my idea better 🙂
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Yeah, who needs that sauce stuff inside the pretty cases anyway.
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Thats why I need some. Im replacing some of the cracked cases. Im like in the repairing mode right now. Gonna send off my 4am to Blair to get fixed pretty soon.
When you call she will ask you for which AM series they are for and she
will make sure it has the correct label for you.
I ordered one for a 4AM and it came with the 4AM label already attached.
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That’s cool. I have more respect for Blair and his organiztion every day!
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I agree, as I spend more time here on HSB, you hear more and more exceptional stories about how they just go above and beyond your highest expectations consistently- That’s the way a business should be run. They seem to be an example for many who fall short.
HAPPY EASTER HSB!!! May your eggs have habanero yolks!!!
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Yes, a happy Easter to all!
Happy Easter to all!!! 🙂 🙂
Wife and kids pimped eggs last night, while I napped on the sofa…to be honest, I had a FEW to many PaulAner’s yesterday, and sorta crashed out!!
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That sounds like a real gas CaJohn 😀
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good for you Tracy, I napped too 😀
my entry is finished, just sent it to nick……hope EVERTONE likes!
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I did the same this afternoon. Can’t wait to see yours Eman!
I just discoved this site and love the pimped sauces…had to submit my own. Will cross my fingers.
Welcome Joseph! Glad you’re here!
4 days and counting, can’t wait to see all of the entries. The 21st should be one fun day checking out all the pimped sauces.
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Habanero yolks, hmmmmm, note to cheffy, try habanero in the deviled eggs next time.
I’d better start pimpin!!
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same here, (just sent)…ready to see them all
[Comment ID #27499 Quote]I have 3am #8262 with a crack in the wax. What all does it take to get it fixed?
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You have to send them back to Blair who refurbishs them for a cost (around $50), so it depends if you think it is worth it. You would have to check with them first tho
[Comment ID #27549 Quote]
My entry is still being worked on. Hopefully won’t take too long now. Is the deadline by tomorrow or at the end of tomorrow?
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I have’t even started mine. I think all it says it “recevied by Friday 4/21” I hope that means LATE Friday 🙂 I can’t work on it today. It will be after work tomorrow night.
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It just says “received by 4/21”
I’m guessing that’s EST as well.
My 4/21 will be over well before yours anyway (due to being GMT) so hopefully mine will be in on time. It has been in the oven and that is all I’m saying bout it 😀 I just hope it makes it into the top 20 now
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thank you for the info, it is a BIG HELP!
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Kind of like sniping on eBay- if you show your sauce too early, it only goes to show 1) ideas, and 2) what folks need to do to top it. I might regret putting mine in 15 minutes after it posted 🙂
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I hear you Jim, but it’s all good- hopefully we are nice enough to each other here that you all won’t laugh directly into my face when you see mine, I am looking for the courteous and gracious rolling on the floor holding your sides laughs to be done behind my back and the minimum amount of “What the heck were you thinking? Are you serious?” comments that I can get. 🙂
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I may not win, but I hope everyone gets to see my “creation”
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Me too, I think there is going to be a lot of really neat stuff out there. It will definitely be fun to see all the cool ideas.
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Jim, any luck tracking down the helmets…….
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I’m with you guys. Though what I made was in my head the moment the contest was announced, based on what I’ve seen of the entries so far, I’ve taken a bit of a different aproach to this pimping of the sauce. I’m just hoping that it will make it to the voting. I’m sure Nick will post the ones that didn’t make the cut as honorable mentions. In either case, I hope everyone gets a kick out of it one way or another. I highly doubt there will be any negative comments regarding anyones’ bottle. Everyone that has submitted an entry has put a lot of thought and effort into it. Hell, I made the air in my home almost unbreathable, and nearly sawed off my knuckle. I can honestly say that I put my blood, sweat, and tears into this one 😛
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No luck, but I’ve honestly not had the time to try! My list of ‘things to do’ far, *far* exceeds my list of ‘things done’ 🙂
Re: I hope everyone gets a kick out of it one way or another.
Of that, I have little doubt Ryan 🙂 Come on Monday!!!
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I’m ery anxious as well. Not only is does the voting start tomorrow, but I’m getting a nice little hot sauce delivery too! 😀
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Sounds familiar- I have been looking around, if I come across anything I’ll let you know.
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Should have one by the end of the week as well………
I’m sending it out in the morning 🙂
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We’ll be mailing a little something or other as well hopefully tomorrow, still gotta get one more thing 😉
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Thanks Vic! Too kind, sir.
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I’m hoping for a delivery on Monday also. I’ll post a pic, if Nick will let me 🙂 Ought to be good for a comment or two 😉
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Hey Jim, may have a couple of leads for you- I will shoot you an e-mail.
..Please Note—A New Reserve Will Be Available for order in June. This New Reserve will be the Last FOREVER in this Classic Reserve Bottle..Aside From the 2AM and 3AM… Only 300 (Blank Blank) will be produced.
UPDATE ON BLAIR”S SITE!!!!!!!!
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Very Nice. Will be good stuff no doubt!
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Whatever happened to “Late 2006”? The wife will kill me if I spend money like that…she wants it all to go into the Zest Fest fund
Yeah I keep telling myself I gotta save more money not increase the collection! Hasn’t worked yet though
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First it was 2007, then Late 2006 and now June! Soon it will just be there!
CAn’t wait to see what it is!
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This will still be the old style bottle. Not the new one. The new bottle will be in late 2006. So, pretty much this will be the last limited reserve in the old style bottle. I AM GONNA GET THIS ONE!!!!!!!
Yeah with 300 of them I should be quick enough on the gun to get one!
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I’m definitely in. Mrs Huvason has actually been cool about my hobby (Ok – obsession), lately 🙂
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I wonder about cost/how much to save
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probably the usual $100, but ya never know.
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I hope thats all. That would be sweet!!!
I can hardly wait. I am sure Blair will come up with some thing out of this world for the last in this series of reseve bottles.