[Sca-cooks] Heinz Chili Sauce

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach M+D: Mary and Doug Piero Carey:
>There is chili pepper in Heinz Chili Sauce!  Some weeks ago I called the
>800 number on the bottle and talked to a nice but VERY uniformative young
>man.  The way I put the question to him was: "Can you tell me if there are
>actually chili peppers, or any derivative of chili peppers in this 
>product?  I've
>read the label very carefully, and it does not list them.  I am cooking for
>someone who is allergic to them, and we really need to know."  We agreed
>that while one would expect them in a sauce named chili sauce, we
>couldn't make any assumptions. We both came up with examples of things
>that DON'T have the item named on the label in the package.  (Hot Dog
>Relish, for one.)  He then put me on hold several times, while he searched
>ingredient lists, databases, called the test kitchen, and several different
>departments, and came up blank.  He then took my #, and promised to get
>back to me.  It took a good 10 days, but I finally came home to find a
>message on the machine, telling me that, "yes, someone who is allergic to
>chili peppers, would react to Heinz chili sauce."
>
>Note the careful phrasing.  I don't know whether the poor dear has just been
>so conditioned not to answer an ingredient question that he couldn't spit it
>out, or if that was the legal department talking.  At any rate, I think we can
>assume some type of chili product in Heinz Chili Sauce.
>
>Yours in the service of curiosity!

Thank you! Dollars to doughnuts it's oleoresin of paprika...

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