The Baby That’s Hot! Gourmet Hot Sauce “Hot Sauce Haiku” contest!
For some reason I have a strange fascination with haikus. So, what better subject about which to wax poetic than the food of the gods, namely hot sauce? I have decided to create this contest to solicit some poetry out of YOU!
Here’s the deal:
-Click the link below, fill out the form with as much information as you like. I need enough info from you to let you know if you have won the contest.
-In the text area provided, give me your bestest attempt at a Haiku based on hot sauce.
-In one month, I will decide on 10 of what I consider to be the best/funniest/most offensive/whatever whim I have at that moment, and I will put them on the site.
-I will open these 10 Haikus to public vote, one vote per person.
-After 1 week of voting, I will tally the votes and notify the winner (that’s the person who made the haiku that gets the most votes.) -The winner will get a Baby That’s Hot! T-Shirt, and a jar of the featured flavor for the month of October (it’s still a secret…)
Not sure what those pesky rules are for a haiku? When I say Haiku, I mean the most simple version of it. Three lines of verse, the first containing 5 syllables, the second 7 syllables, and the third 5 again. There are actually a ton more rules to true Haiku, but we will just restrict it to the simple ones of 17 syllables on 3 lines of 5 – 7 – 5. OK?
Here is an example from the movie Fight Club:
Worker bees can leave
Even drones can fly away
The queen is their slave
Get it? Now it’s your turn. More rules and instructions on the contest page.
http://www.babythatshot.com/hotsaucehaiku.html
–Mike
mike@babythatshot.com
98 responses to “Hot Sauce Haiku Contest”
this contest is awesome
here is my favorite haiku
it was cool huh huh
when we killed that frog huh huh
it won’t croak again
-butthead, 1991
Very nice.
Mad props for being the first to use the word “capsaicin” with the right number of syllables…
–Mike
thanks mike,
Score one for the Kentucky public school system.
The Red Savina
and the Yellow Fatalii
Talon is extreme
Sorry but were did this product line come from. I guess thats what happens when you don’t make it to all the hot sauce shows you get left behind in the smoke.
Can we do limirics (however you spell that) next month? 😛
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LOVE the idea. Believe it or not my obsession with Haikus started one thanksgiving long ago with a Turkey limerick I wrote:
There once was a Turkey in Turkey
Who once lived in Turkmenistan
He was heard to have said
As they chopped off his head
“I thought I’d end up in Iran!”
Obviously stupid, but that led to turkey haikus, hence the obsession.
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lol, won’t touch that one!
Mike, will you be in ZF?
[Comment ID #54649 Quote]
Everytime I am asked the answer gets closer to yes. Only as a spectator if I do, but right now I am saying (unfortunately) not. I saw the list of HSBers. Looks like a… interesting… yes, interesting… bunch.
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Interesting is being kind!
Hope we can change your mind, the more the merrier!
Got a P O K E R game going on Friday and Saturday nights too. Anti’s will be bottles of hot sauce. maybe a serious game after for those interested in hanging late.
DEFCON Creator
Assimilation of Earth
Vlad the Impaler
[Comment ID #54672 Quote]
How’d I know you’d get Creator in there 🙂
What’s up DC?? Looking forward to the 30th, you know I’ll be there as long as nothing pops up.
[Comment ID #54676 Quote]
Hey man, just taking a break. Doin’ good. I think you’ll like St. James Gate, nice old-fashioned Irish Pub. Perhaps you can bring Mad woth you, it was the scene of his first Defcon Day.
[Comment ID #54700 Quote]
If I knew who Mad was, I would try. Never met him is he from this area I take it?
[Comment ID #54706 Quote]
Hmmm, good question., I think he was abducted by a crop circle-making black ops helicopter.
Need some great hot sauce
Off to where it can be found
ZestFest in Ft Worth
[Comment ID #54706 Quote]
Could it be that there is someone who doesn’t know of Mad?
Campbell is the Man
All Hail the Stair Master Champ
A walk in the park
[Comment ID #55044 Quote]
You’re on a roll this AM John!
huv is the fat kid
the fat kid is huvason
new hot sauce maker
[Comment ID #55046 Quote]
I think you have a winner there!
this is lots of fun
five then seven then five more
huv you can do one
The blog is agog-
Party! It will be the best,
We’re off to Zest Fest.
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I do not think so
This is way too hard for me
I will pass on this
John is on a roll
But then someone stood him up
Upright, no more roll 🙂
You guys are all nuts
What nothing better to do
on this nice sunday
mild and medium
hot and the extreme to boot
four sauce fat kid dude
Blair, CaJohn, FatKid
Just what is a huvason
Cry another day
Hungover I am
Hot sauce good, but not right now
Stop talking so loud.
Can I win my own contest?
we can chat haiku
about what ever we want
and be on topic
Hey Mike so sorry
will try to keep it down so
we are not that loud
I craved extreme heat
Drank bottles of Jersey Death
My asshole, on fire
As I said before
You guys are all freaking nuts
makes me feel at home
Sounds like you guys are into the bottle already this am!
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your not alone huv – Im not feeling it 🙂
now you got it huv
see how easy it can be
tech dude turn poet
[Comment ID #55060 Quote]
no it is too soon
the beer must wait til later
then all will be good
God, what have I done?
I created a monster
Dressed as a Haiku.
[Comment ID #55061 Quote]
maybe its the whole “it doesnt have to rhyme thing”
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Chris I thought would win
the contest with out issue
he is the blog poet
Tracy you can too
your twang adds more syllables
redneck to the bone
we must submit these
on the web for them to count
Mike will not look here
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I just cant huv – my mind goes nuts 👿 cause I always try to rhyme. This whole syllable thing throws me off 😉
[Comment ID #55070 Quote]
Chris oh yes you can
it is easy once you start
try and you will win
win or not its fun
huvason just be a shi*!
tech dude is right on
I are a redneck
I are not a dumb redneck
I are a redneck
huv i see your right
there is some work to be done
so off I go for now
[Comment ID #55075 Quote]
have a good today
I have to get going to
need to fix my web
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Ok huv I’ll try
Cause I dont want you to cry
Your that type of guy
[Comment ID #55077 Quote]
see, I gotta rhyme – cant help it 😉
[Comment ID #55078 Quote]
that is pretty good
rhyming is okay to do
you will get better
this is to much for me first thing this morning 😐
[Comment ID #55076 Quote]
I have to go too – be back later
Oh, hi mrs ryan
Him Booger 😀 have a great day all that are leaving
[Comment ID #54656 Quote]
you describe us as interesting…..that’s not the word i use 😛
[Comment ID #55042 Quote]
Great one Big Daddy!
[Comment ID #55050 Quote]
Your words I relate
I suck at writing Haiku
The Bus is complete
[Comment ID #55091 Quote]
Oh Yeah for the Bus
How many passengers on it?
Where is the picture?
Patience Grashopper
As anxious as you may be
Lunch I must first eat
[Comment ID #55096 Quote]
Don’t tease us like that
Forget about your lunch time
And show us the pic
just kidding dk…i think that’s my last haiku though…lol
Hey DK I’m Off
Lied before about the last one
This one really is
gotta work on the site
God Damn Addictions
Was not going to do this
Now I can not Stop
[Comment ID #55100 Quote]
Yes it is quire hard
to stop once you have started
alas I must stop now
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Sorry dude, that Haiku stuff gave me a bigger headache than looking at all the mugshots for the Bus! Ha! Just waiting on a final approval from my right hand man in this madness. Once I here back, and have final approval, it will post. Today, I promise.
Mike, you are on the bus, thanks for the pic. .
21 HSB members made the bus. Thank goodness we got a bigger bus!
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Did I say right hand MAN? Oops, huge freaking typo. Probably get a Beat Down for that one! 🙂
[Comment ID #55104 Quote]
She can not get mad.
She says she is an angel
With halo on her head
[Comment ID #55105 Quote]
You all must know a
different person then I do because there
no halo fits big head
[Comment ID #55108 Quote]
Boy, do I suck or what? LOL
[Comment ID #55105 Quote]
Good try being nice
It is much too late for you
Beat Downs are in sight
Love ya bigshow
Dk you have mail, oh and you too leroy
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Jodie it’s all good
just remember it’s seven
syllables not words
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Kristi, had to try
Jersey beat down I don’t need
will prepare myself
ZF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 days on the road, 4 days I’m there!!!!!!!!!!!!!
eb ay ends in an hour
lets gather our power
lets all step up !!!
duhhh should have read the rules first,lol
[Comment ID #55116 Quote]
was nice try AJ
stick with the sauce and auctions
someone will step up
Hope you play P O K E R
Better than you write Haiku
Otherwisre I Win!
[Comment ID #55115 Quote]
Nothing but the best
Hope you have a real safe drive
See you once your there
See I can play nice, unlike Jodie!
[Comment ID #55114 Quote]
I know I messed up
This all just confuses me
Boy do I still suck
[Comment ID #55122 Quote]
It must be the halo
don’t leave it home at ZestFest
I need protection
[Comment ID #55122 Quote]
Big Heads need to be
Nice or no one will hold up
Support sling for you
I feel sort of dumb
I’ll stick to making hot sauce
bring it on bigshow
LMAO
later gang
I still hate Haiku
If you can find the password
You can board the bus
And for those that don’t know the password, it’s in the Forums! Enjoy!
[Comment ID #55127 Quote]
DK’s Big/Short Bus
Everyone get onboard
Leaving the bog now
Well all I am off
Have to go work need money
Will be back later
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thats a great idea
GM/WL no matter
you are so psycho
🙂
[Comment ID #55130 Quote]
An angel you are
With or without a halo
Thanks, You Freaking Rock!!!!!! 😀
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Laying it on thick DK
Kristi needs nothing more to
make her head larger
Love ya babe!
[Comment ID #55131 Quote]
Hop on the Big Bus
Or bigshow can pick you up
Oh, forget this, Dk, Haiku is a pain in the butt, the BB came out great! You gave so many of us soooo many laughs! Thank you for all the hard work, I mean please, just having to look at all of our mugs for two days straight should earn you some kind of medal! 😮
Collectable Craze
now Danny Cash in the house
Friday af Zest Fest
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Fat Kid Sauce is there
Found at CaJohns booth for you
all to come and try
John got me going
yesterday with these Haikus
now I can not stop
Woke up just to find
The late Crocodile Hunter
Steve Irwin has passed…
What a downer.
Booger Red’s at 9
Will you be there right on time
Lee Cash Kick-off Bash
Irwin was the best
Crocodile Hunter Supreme
Truly a big loss
[Comment ID #55450 Quote]
Just read that as well
A terrible tragedy
He was a good guy
[Comment ID #55452 Quote]
Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin killed. Moment of silence for DK good friend.
ZetsFest we are here
Too Bad we drank beer alone
Maybe tomorrow…
I wish I was there
to drink a beer with you John
but I am at work.
[Comment ID #56122 Quote]
yeah I would love to have one with you also, but I am still at work as well.