Since we celebrated last year late, this year should be no different, right? Well, the HSB is officially 2 years old now!
The last year has seen expontential growth here on the HSB and in the past 2 years combined we’ve had 1,234 posts and 39,148 comments! Which, when compared to last years birthday stats of 536 posts and 575 comments show just how quickly the HSB has grown.
- In the past year the HSB has:
- Had 698 posts & 38,573 comments
- Had 1,188,805 unique visitors
- Added 2 additional reviewers.
- Recieved mentions in Chile Pepper Magazine, Fiery Foods Magazine, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, FHM, NY Daily News & NY Post.
- Recieved visitors from 195 countries/regions.
- Added many new features like the forum, manufacturer spotlights, poems & captions
- Changed servers more times then underwear (kidding)
- Gathered the largest chilehead gang ever seen at Zest Fest
- Celebrated the first HSB engagement
- Made many friends in the fiery foods industry.
- & Pissed off god only knows how many people.
Happy Birthday HSB!
76 responses to “Happy 2nd Birthday HSB!”
Happy B-day HSB, and great job Nick…..
A big congrats to Nick and the HSB!
Awesome job Nick, happy B’day HSB..
Great job!! Super site. Sorry I missed you at ZF, I was there for a short while. Look forward to reading these threads for many more years!
Happy Birthday HSB guess I should go partying on second thought I will just go to bed……….Good night all oh wait Good morning all and GO TIGERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday!
May your day be as warm as capsaicin…
WAY TO GO NICK!! And Amen to that Mr. Freeze!
Thanks for all the hard work you put into this place, Nick. It’s one of a few sites that I check first thing each morning. And thanks to all the reviewers who take the time to write-up their thoughts (even if people often disagree with them).
Keep up the good work everyone!
Happy Birthday HSB thanks Nick what a ride
Happy Birthday HSB! Hey Nick, you should arrange a birthday party somewhere. I am feeling itchy for a road trip. Or maybe that itchy feeling is the rash flaring up again.
Happy Birthday HSB, and congratulations Nick, for your continued success. I personally want to thank-you for the formulation of this Blog and it’s continued maintenance. This Blog is my one true outlet from the busy days that I have, reading comments and checking out the daily posts gives me something to look forward to everyday. Thanks!!!!
NIck, Congratulations on 2 years, I’m proud to be a part of this group. Blogging is almost as popular as hot sauce these days!
Congrats on the accomplishment and Happy Birthday HSB!! I too would like to thank you and all these great people for making my time here a friggen’ blast. Nick, keep the cool stuff coming and we are all appreciative of the hard work you put into this crazy thing you do!! Thanks 🙂
2 years? Wow…..
Wonder what the stat’s will be next year….I can see Google buying the HSB for 1.6 Billion (If Nick will sell….lol)
Congratulations Nick!
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Ha ha ha – and every commentor will get $1 for each comment! 😛 (I wish)
Thanks everyone for the congrats, but it’s really all of you that deserve it. The HSB has morphed into a community of chileheads from around the world (195 countries! ~ when i saw that stat I almost fell off my chair). If the HSB wasn’t fun for me, I wouldn’t keep doing it and everyone out there are responsible for making it fun and interesting. So THANKS TO YOU!
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Sweet! I will be a hundred-aire! Wait, a hundred and one-aire!
Congrats Nick, you have created quite a fine and popular site here! I am addicted to it like the sauces, I didn’t know what to do with my time when it was down while you changed servers! I have met so many people who are nuts just like me here…it couldn’t happen anywhere else! You are da man!!! Happy Birthday Blog!
2 years old? Does that mean we are in our Terrible Two’s!?! Time to be very very bad! 😉
You forgot to mention: “And helped to raise thousands of dollars for charity, making a difference in people’s lives” 🙂
Great Job Nick!
Happy b-day HSB and thank you Nick for designing such a great forum for news and such. In addition to being entertaining, it has really helped us raise awareness of our company and products- THANKS-
Add me to those WISHING THE BLOG A HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Great job
Nick. Wonder what this next year will bring, any comments on what
is in store for the future. (Don’t really need a lot more than we got)
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the best is yet to come Jim…
Party starts this weekend. Save the Breasts!
Way to go Nick. HB to the HSB!
If you included in your mission statment, “Create an entertaining, informative, web site that promotes increased cash drain on viewers by giving praise to all things hot and the people behind them”, I would not have been surprised. This site has turned me from a very casual, semi informative collector and connoisseur, into a full-blown geek!
By the way, if me and the wife go to Z.F. this year (which appears likely), my wife will seek you out and hit you (LOL).
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Nick, congrats Lee already said what I Feel also. May there be many more years to come with the continued growth and popularity.
Scotty B
Happy Birthday HSB! Nick, Ill have Jodie sing happy birthday (in Marilyn Monroe style) for you later … lol
Anyway congrats and thanks for having us here to celebrate with you
Happy B-Day HSB! I like the part at the end
“& Pissed off god only knows how many people.”
Glad we could help 😈
Grrr…I’m one of those you pissed off!!! j/k I love your site and check it out often!! Congrats!
Whooo PARTY! Ive broken out the sauce. Happy B-day to the HSB.
Happy Birthday HSB!!! Wow two years already! This is one of the first sites I check when I get up and one of the last sites I check before bed! Without it I am lost! I have met so many cool people here. Thanks Nick for all the hard work you do to keep this site up and running. I know what a PIA we all are sometimes, but we truly are just one big dysfunctional family here! Now, I truly owe you that steak! 🙂
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Ryan check email
Happy Birthday HSB and well done Nick!! I think the stats speak for themselves, Cheers!
Happy Birthday HSB!
And congrats, Nick, you have certainly succeeded in leading one of the best sites on the web to success.
Poems never heard anybodys poems on here before. Ryan you got one for use. I would ask Blane. His would go something like this. There was a boy sitting on a bus, he like to lick the window…………
Great job Nick and the whold HSB Crew! Go ahead and just take the rest of the day off…. call if you need a note to bring to the boss (shoot, Nick, you are the Boss).
Congratulations! Happy 2nd BDAY (Leroy that’s 14 in dog years).
From the Bog to the BLOG, Happy B-Day HSB!!!
Way to go Nick, everyone. The blog for me is a part of everyday life now. Like Jodie said, I check it first thing in the AM, last thing at night, and sometimes in between when I’m not sleeping at work! 😉
Just being able to meet so many people from so many places, either in person or online, who share the same interest has been a great experience for me. I look forward to learning more and meeting more fine folks in the years to come thanks to the blog. Never a dull moment around here, that’s the best part.
Talk about a good birthday – just scored free tickets to a Rangers game tonight – box seats – catch you cats later.
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That’s nothing – I just scored YANKEE tickets for tonight. Do you want to go 😛
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Har har – Traded Mets tickets for Rangers 😈
Happy Birthday Hot Sauce Blog!
Always a good read!
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Another smart move!
What can I say that hasn’t already been said, Happy Birthday HSB, Thanks Nick for all the oppertunities that you have made for me and for all involved.
Keep up the great site… Lets have a belated birthday party in NM/FF.
Happy Birthday HSB!!! Good stuff.
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watch out, they’ll choke in the playoffs if they get there.
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As long as the Leafs are there, i have no problems 🙂
Hey BTW, Nick what happened to the Caption This with Danny Cash’s photo? Just curious. I am sure you have been busy and crazy like the rest of the world. I am just curious who made the top 3!
Happy Birthday HSB!! Thanks to Nick (and Laura cause I’m sure you’ve done your share too) for bringing it all together.
I seem to remember a tradition of birthday smacks being given though to the birthday boy or girl though. Does this mean we all get to smack Nick when we see him next? Lets see, 2 smacks per Hsber x 1,188,805 “unique visitors” = well, that gives new meaning to the ring of fire if you ask me! 👿 lol Thanks a bunch Nick. 🙂
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Good one Kristi. I think as long as Laura has some JD, she will not mind the smacking. Hey she might even hand out glow sticks at the end! 😉
Thanks everyone for the well wishes (Rangers lost in the last minute – but can’t complain about box seats 🙂 )
Anyways, the DC caption vote will be put up shortly, got pushed to the wayside with the additional server change last week (or the week before) and things have gotten busy beyond that. But we’re on it and of course, we’ve got another picture ready and willing to be the next caption. Party on.
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We brought home about 1/2 a suitcase of glow sticks 😈
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How about the gay parade blinking necklaces? Get to take them home too 😀 lol
HSB is a Day order
It’s Fri—-day
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Nick, how was the game…..Oh, wait, didn’t Crosby score with 3 seconds left to win?
As for the Leafs, it was nice to see Gionta get a natural hat trick, and come back from a 6-3 deficit to win.
Ahhhh, hockey is back.
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High scoring game & fun to watch. Box seats with catering and beer – can’t go wrong no matter who wins the game!
Congrats all around! HSB is here to stay….
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Box seats rock.
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If you care to join us, we’re breaking out the trailer and “fowl fryers” at the Meadowlands on Saturday around noon for the upcoming Devils/Flyers game. Wings, beer, booze and BBQ for 7 hours before the game at 7:30pm. Life is good.
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Devils / Flyer’s
NJ / Philly??? Hmmmm 😉
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It’s always a good tailgate with these two teams. I might just have to brew up a ‘special’ batch of sauce for the visiting fans. Hee hee hee.
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Just cause I work near Philly, does that make me a “visiting fan” ? 😉
That is an amazing number of posts and comments! Will the top commentors list come back soon?
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Good question, I will ponder that tonight.
We will also be setting up for the Jets game (no, not a Jets fan, just a really good tailgater) on 10/22 in the parking lot quite early, and watching the game in the parking lot (AC converter in the truck). We did it last year and had a ball.
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Where?
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Not sure of the exact lot, you have my cell phone #, if you’re thinking of going give me a call when you get there, I’ll be able to tell you exactly where in which lot. You won’t be able to miss the trailer! LOL!
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we’ll see how my day goes tomorrow…… Have to be home by 8pm though
“Wings, beer, booze and BBQ for 7 hours before the game at 7:30pm. Life is good.”
“we’ll see how my day goes tomorrow”
Wow huv, you’d be passing up on 4 of your favorite things 😉
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That shouoldn’t be a problem, we’ll be shutting down about 6pm, the game is at 7:30pm. Parking is $12.
Hey, happy birthday ya ol’ fart! 2 is an awful long time on the net. Congratulations!
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Why do you think I woke up from my nap 😀 I sensed boozing and eating conversation somewhere 😉
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21 days tell TN
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LOL – yeah, but that involves pregnant crazy wife – even i’m not that stupid 😯
I’m still working on her though!
Happy B-day Hot Sauce Blog!!!!!!!!!
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Hey eman,
I got the cutest picture of you and the eman family developed, give that little girl a kiss, we ( THT ) miss you guys.
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Yea, that basically ruined my day even more 🙁 They had them……..
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You got it. Can’t wait till NM. You wont believe how much she has changed since you saw her. She is smiling and talking up a storm.
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Ah…..how sweet!